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solar flare causing outages?

mamak59

Member
is anyone having problems getting their internet, email and SMS due to the solar flare that's been said to the biggest since 2005? mine's been knocked out since 7:30 am PST...

(Virgin mobile user)
 
My phone's on the charger right now, but I'll check when it's done to see if I'm having any wackiness...
 
Currently its an S3 Radiation Storm.


S 3
Strong
[SIZE=-1]Biological: radiation hazard avoidance recommended for astronauts on EVA; passengers and crew in high-flying aircraft at high latitudes may be exposed to radiation risk.***[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Satellite operations: single-event upsets, noise in imaging systems, and slight reduction of efficiency in solar panel are likely.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Other systems: degraded HF radio propagation through the polar regions and navigation position errors likely. [/SIZE]


Probably not the most reliable day for your GPS.
 
I'm safe...wearing my tin foil hat!

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Okay...works on aliens figure it works with solar flares too!
 
"NOAA and NASA have both predicted that if a large solar storm such as that which hit the U.S. in 1859, it could cause devestating problems for the entire world. From the article about 1859, "Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators.[6] Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.[7] Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.[8]".

In 1989, another solar storm took out the a large power grid in the northeastern U.S. and Quebeck areas.
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It happened on BACKside so I flashed my Harmonius Bumblebee backup and it happened with it as well.I know it must have been caused by the flare up because hardly anyone else mentioned the same problem.
 
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