Busy night (solar EM activities)

[Coligny]

Received a buckitfull of alert tonight aboot solar activity and woke up to 2 devices going tits up: One Wifi bridge and the old video security server...

Unfortunately as usual, you have to make sense of this kind of message to understand whatsgoing on:

Space Weather Message Code: WARK07
Serial Number: 32
Issue Time: 2011 Aug 05 2146 UTC
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 or greater expected
Valid From: 2011 Aug 05 2200 UTC
Valid To: 2011 Aug 06 0300 UTC
Warning Condition: Onset NOAA
Scale: G3 or greater - Strong to Extreme

-Warning Quack science inside- :
Last big solar activity was around early march. Hope their aint no link with them quake...
(correlation aint causation...)

[Yokohammer]

Hmm ... this?

GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: A major geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a CME on August 5th around 1800 UT. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras after nightfall. Tip: the best hours for aurora sightings are usually around local midnight. Aurora alerts: text, voice.

Reports of Northern Lights are coming in from many European countries including Germany, Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands.

Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say that the CME impact may have strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. Stay tuned for updates on this aspect of the storm.

You're tracking space weather? Where at?
(Jeez ... and I thought I was an über-geek).

Edit: You might want to click the "Not news" button below the entry field when making posts like this, to keep it from going on the front page and incurring the wrath of the non-gee ... er ... "normal" contingent.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Sorry, I haven't quite inured myself yet to geek porn...

[Taro Toporific]

...when making posts like this, to keep it from going on the front page and incurring the wrath of the non-gee ... er ... "normal" contingent.

Since when did the FG have a "normal" contingent?:p

[Yokohammer]

Since when did the FG have a "normal" contingent?:p

Erm ... "more normal?"

[Coligny]

[quote="Yokohammer"]
You're tracking space weather? Where at?
(Jeez ... and I thought I was an ü]
The NOAA have a web email alert. I've registered with them more than 10 years ago. Previous sysadmin job had crapload of old computer plugged to lab equipment. The older they get the more sensitive they are to solar crapstorms. Fun place... all research field were included, biology, linguistic, historian, ethnologist... Got aware of the solar influence by an old astronomer (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Pecker_JC.htm coolest guy evar... always got some booze ready to flow...)
My Palm III on its last month of duty was fully erasing itself /le boring...

Email:
https://pss.swpc.noaa.gov/LoginWebForm.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fproductsubscriptionservice%2f

Scales:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/

[Yokohammer]

Cool!
Learned something new.
Thanks for that.

[Coligny]

Fook fook fook fook...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/0321231/Power-Companies-Brace-For-Solar-Storms

shut

down

everything !!!

[Yokohammer]

Fook fook fook fook...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/0321231/Power-Companies-Brace-For-Solar-Storms

shut

down

everything !!!

Oh, nice.
So what's the chance of this causing a problem at, ... oh, I dunno ... a nuclear power plant somewhere for example?

[Coligny]

Usually it's more distribution problems, grid going tits up, satellites getting fried, wireless comms shutting downs (wifi, keitai, phs, 3g). Random computer crash, car GPS losing north... At worth you get blackouts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

(unfortunately no numbers for this one as it was believed to be a Soviet attack... OMG... commy SUN...)

Meanwhile... no Dead waking from their graves, mass hysteria, virgin sacrifices...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Usually it's more distribution problems, grid going tits up, satellites getting fried, wireless comms shutting downs (wifi, keitai, phs, 3g). Random computer crash, car GPS losing north... At worth you get blackouts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

(unfortunately no numbers for this one as it was believed to be a Soviet attack... OMG... commy SUN...)

Meanwhile... no Dead waking from their graves, mass hysteria, virgin sacrifices...

I'll take the sacrificing of virginity and you guys can have all the rest....

[IparryU]

I'll take the sacrificing of virginity and you guys can have all the rest....

i want a part in that too... as long as they are not catholic priests

[matsuki]

Virgins are overrated...give me someone that knows what they're doing and doesn't make you stop every 10 seconds because it hurts.

[Coligny]

Sorry to go back on topic, but the flare went the other way, all is safe for now... nothing more than few glitches here and there...

[Mike Oxlong]

How's tricks in Toyokawa?

Raging Solar Storm Is Hitting Earth Right No

[Coligny]

Network black out last night at 2:00... WIRED network blackout... one of the wireless AP started vomitting on the ethernet port disrupting everyone even 2 switches away... Can't tell if it's because of this.

Also certainly unrelated but car battery HS between 10am and 5pm...

It's the second sh1tstorm this week, there was some action sunday too... Sun ain't no happy...
(BTW... I are in Toyohashi... not Toyokawa...)

[IparryU]

Network black out last night at 2:00... WIRED network blackout... one of the wireless AP started vomitting on the ethernet port disrupting everyone even 2 switches away... Can't tell if it's because of this.

Also certainly unrelated but car battery HS between 10am and 5pm...

It's the second sh1tstorm this week, there was some action sunday too... Sun ain't no happy...
(BTW... I are in Toyohashi... not Toyokawa...)

can we resume the virgin topic?

[Coligny]

can we resume the virgin topic?

For mythical creature I prefer hydras and dragons (euro specs)... and griffons too... they are totally cool... I want some in concrete art deco style at the corner of mah bunker actin as gargoyles... (like th3 Chrysler building)

[IparryU]

For mythical creature I prefer hydras and dragons (euro specs)... and griffons too... they are totally cool... I want some in concrete art deco style at the corner of mah bunker actin as gargoyles... (like th3 Chrysler building)

Pretty sure that Griji has some stuffed (former) lover goats in his pad that he can give you...

you just have to dip 'em in cement and wait for them to get hard (again). just hope that greji had them in good poses...

[Greji]

Pretty sure that Griji has some stuffed (former) lover goats in his pad that he can give you...

you just have to dip 'em in cement and wait for them to get hard (again). just hope that greji had them in good poses...

I got an old nanny that he can have. Comes mounted with a four cylinder Briggs Straton and a kick starter. Used condition......

[tone]

a few coworkers heard somewhere today is a high chance for an earthquake

then they went into a "japan is so fucked... oh well" line of circular talking

couldnt nail down their sources, but maybe its to do with the EM frequencies?

[matsuki]

For mythical creature I prefer...

They do exist...I've stolen enough flowers here to make an entry into the rose parade...but as I think I've said on here, it's not exactly all it's cracked up to be.

[Yokohammer]

a few coworkers heard somewhere today is a high chance for an earthquake

then they went into a "japan is so fucked... oh well" line of circular talking

couldnt nail down their sources, but maybe its to do with the EM frequencies?

That does seem to be the rumor of the day, strangely coinciding with a flurry of media reports regarding this 70% possibility of a major quaker in the next four years thing.

If earthquake prediction was actually possible, we surely would have known about 3.11 before it happened. And the big aftershock on 4.7.

Nobody knows. There's a Nobel award waiting for anyone who really does.

[Coligny]

If earthquake prediction was actually possible, we surely would have known about 3.11 before it happened. And the big aftershock on 4.7.

Technically... it is possible...

Just not feasible as of today's available technology.

It's just a matter of density of data collection...

Stuff enough strain gauges or pressure sensors on the ground up to kilometers deep, let them record for hundreds of years and you will be able to forecast everything... It's not much different from determining the rupture point of any material... except your dealing with insane amount of weighty dirt (pondereux in French) constantly moving at dreafully slow speed and without proper knowledge of the real composition...

[Yokohammer]

Technically... it is possible...

Just not feasible as of today's available technology.

It's just a matter of density of data collection...

Stuff enough strain gauges or pressure sensors on the ground up to kilometers deep, let them record for hundreds of years and you will be able to forecast everything... It's not much different from determining the rupture point of any material... except your dealing with insane amount of weighty dirt (pondereux in French) constantly moving at dreafully slow speed and without proper knowledge of the real composition...

In a few hundred years there'll be better ways to do it than having to stuff strain gauges in every inaccessible nook and cranny, I'm sure. In less time than that there'll probably be ways to monitor plate strain and slippage from satellites.

I'm talking about now.

Still, even with the best and most copious data, I'm not confident there'll be any way to predict the exact day on which a quake will occur any time soon.

[Coligny]

Still, even with the best and most copious data, I'm not confident there'll be any way to predict the exact day on which a quake will occur any time soon.

Can't even do that with french trains...

[Yokohammer]

Can't even do that with french trains...

Ah ... so either you guys are getting your railway technology from the British, or they're getting it from you guys.
Either way you're both farked.

[Coligny]

Ah ... so either you guys are getting your railway technology from the British, or they're getting it from you guys.
Either way you're both farked.

It's not the technology the problem... It's the strikes...

[Coligny]

Solar storm... slow internet...
I'm pretty sure the amount of alert email warning from space-weather service is directly responsible for the later....

As usual... no way to make any sense from their alert message...

[legion]

In a few hundred years there'll be better ways to do it than having to stuff strain gauges in every inaccessible nook and cranny, I'm sure. In less time than that there'll probably be ways to monitor plate strain and slippage from satellites.

I'm talking about now.

Still, even with the best and most copious data, I'm not confident there'll be any way to predict the exact day on which a quake will occur any time soon.

sorry to backtrack, but there is something I've been wondering about, doesn't every quake alter the odds of the big quake?