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Should be a glancing blow but it may impact some communication satellites and such.

Solar Flares Unleashed By Sun On March 6 Include Strongest This Year

By: Tariq Malik

Published: 03/07/2012 07:31 AM EST on SPACE.com

The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far.

Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have. They followed several weaker, but still powerful, sun storms on Tuesday and came just days after another major solar flare on Sunday night.

The first big solar storm was also the most powerful one, ranking as an X5.4-class flare after erupting at 7:02 p.m. EST (0002 March 7 GMT), according to an alert from the Space Weather Prediction Center operated by the National Weather Service. It is the strongest solar flare yet for 2012.

The second event occurred just over an hour later, reaching a maximum strength of X1.3.

http://www.space.com.....t-sun.html

http://www.youtube.c.....rWB-lhUj-8

http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/StreamByDataIdServlet?allDataId=334510389

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for some reason that doesn't look like a glancing blow to me, this one from yesterday looks like a glancing blow to me

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off to build a faraday cage, brb

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wow that would be devastating, apparently theyre not too uncommon. wasnt it just in the early 1900's or late 1800's that the sky lit up and blew out the telegraph lines? today that type of global emp would be mayhem.

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yep, 1859 to be exact. But there have been many more than that

http://www.solarstor.....torms.html

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Quote from kvr29 on March 7, 2012, 14:13

off to build a faraday cage, brb

Indeed

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