It sounds like a Michael Bay movie - explosions on the sun affecting power grids, airlines, satellites.
But it's real, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it's about to happen, but it's highly unlikely to cause harm.
Tiny eruptions on the sun called solar flares (a more detailed description here from the BBC) have been happening for a few days, according to the NOAA. The activity signals that the sun, which is relatively quiet, is waking up, doing what one might call more vigorous stretching than it has done in about four years.
The flares could result in a dazzling show of Northern Lights. However, more serious consequences are described in a NOAA release. The flares "can blast Earth with magnetic events that can damage the electrical grid and temporarily damage radio and satellite telecommunications."
"We want people to know this is not, like, the mother of all events," said Joseph Kunches, a space scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. "What it means for the airlines is that they will adjust their routes, they know this is happening. Power grid operators have back-up plans, and they know what's happening."
NOAA has been in close communication with all aspects of industry that could be affected, he said.
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So will my computer and tv break?? That would be annoying....
I find it hilarious everyone saying we will die without eelectricity. Havent any of you been out camping its called build a fire go kill a deer and cook the fine meat it provides go fishing if you dont trust the water boil it over the fire first live off the land its not that hard everyone quit ur b!tch!n and go find a resourceful redneck to help you out or maybe you should be killled off anyhow
So I wonder what would happen to our solar system the sun passing from one side of the galaxy to the other side changing magnetism polarity could it cause our sun to increase its solar activity, in 2012 our solar system will be in the center of the galaxy spiral our solar system is in, will it continue to the other side, and what will happen could it causes polar shifts of our Sun and the planets circling it causing changes beyond our comprehension?
This solar blast is making my chest hurt...
Omg! This is bad, Seriously. God said that when the "blah-blah-blah-bah-blah'
Somebody toss Bruce Willis out there! Do it! Do it now! Oh and don't forget Steve Buscemi and Owen Wilson!
And you may possibly feel sill when you're the only jewish apocalypse zombie and everyones laughing at you!
The belief that a cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Yeah I think I'll go with scientific empirical facts than books written by long dead narcissists looking to make a power grab by instilling fear in the general uneducated populous so that they could be more easily controlled and culled for cheap labor and mindless fodder in wars against non-believers.
Finally someone with brains!!!! We can only hope an earthquake or mudslide will erase the stupid from the earth.....unfortunately some of the intelligent may get swept away too
Goddam I want to make babies with you!!
Hear! Hear! That's the best description of the enormous LIE of Xtianity I have ever read! Bravo! Can you come up with one for islam?
And they say Christians are opportunists and take every chance to force their beliefs on the masses. This is an article about solar flares and this guy is drooling at the opportunity to use this moment to spew the same, old, re-used, anti-Christian rhetoric (in an attempt to sound original and witty).
Brah, I just wanted to let you know that your comment exhibits a higher, yet fundamentally basic understanding of reality. I have argued the same point to many believers of the greatest fictional book ever written, the bible! I truly appreciated your approach and points. Great work! Oh and all you drones out there that will comment back that we will be going to hell, save it, I only go to one fictional place and it is ran by a mouse named Mickey!
Hatred begets hatred, brother.
Brah..better to believe and be wrong in the end than to NOT believe and be wrong in the end. As unbelievable that you think God is, I feel the same way about the "big bang theory". Who created the big bang..Oh some particles came together and created it..Who created the particles? Or were they just hanging out one day and decided to party together and PRESTO..The big bang. Yeah and you say God is unbelievable.
As In Heaven, So On Earth. As the Sun above awakens, so shall the Son below
Wow- you'll feel pretty silly when the Cosmic Jewish Zombie Apolcolypse happens, and you have no idea how to defeat them.
Just like the Sun is the source of energy on earth, let the light of truth shine on your mind, so that you may find the way to inmortality. Just believe in it and you sould not be consume with fire on the last days, when ever that is.
I see someone went to Community College.
So sad, you really don't have any idea what you're saying.
All of our knees will bow down to Him. I pray you open your closed mind and hard heart to Truth. Before it is too late. These are the end times spoken of by the prophets of God. Also: the Torah had scientific facts in it that man had't figured out or been able to explain until the last few centuries. Leviticus explains the necessity of using running water to become clean once you become unclean. While science didnt explain the existence of germs until the 18th century. One of the oldest books. The book of Job. Speaks of a spherical earth, as well as the underwater currents of the seas, and the hydrologic cycle. God is the Father of all. Science is also His. And narrow minded "scientists" will never prove Him wrong. Peace and Love in Jesus. I hope your open your heart and soul to Him.
And i would abort any babies i'd have with you. praise jebus
You are absolutely brainwashed with this horse-puckey...it is incredible that anyone can actually believe this nonsense. Time to wake up.
Most of you here give too much praise & glory to the scientists who for generations have studied the earth and have come and gone to death, while the ever existing physical world continues to exist. The worlds existence has nothing to do with science since it existed before people or scientists. The NOAA says it's prepared for solar flares on the sun, but when the fireballs come down from the sky, you that claim there is no God will no doubt be the first to cry out to Him.
does your handler know you're out wandering about?
...it`s the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine....
Good song...
This is wild. Last night I set my phone to wake me up at 6:40 am. My husbands phone goes off but it was 5:00 am then we go back to sleep. 40 minutes later my phone goes off and I say many 6:40 came quick and he goes no its 5:40. I look at my phone and its an hour ahead. So I go on google and search time and it agrees with my phone. I go downstairs and all the clocks agree. My daughters phone however says an hour ealier so I call the operater and she says centrel time says at that time 7:20 am. So I rush my daughte to school and noone is there. There clocks are an hour behind mine. I google it again and El paso time is different then the rest of Texas. Maybe it has something to do with this solar deal
As In Heaven, So On Earth. As the Sun above awakens, so shall the Son below.
Sounds like the sun needs a little Gold Bond
It's nice that the leading countries are looking out for the rest of the world as we should !!!
Go to wikipedia and out caring ton event