Will the sky be falling on Tuesday Aug. 2nd, 2010?

now where did i put my 1,000,000 SPF sunscreen

But you don't get your vitamin D metabolism if you use that, silly.

In fact, someone should let RexRed know about this... he seems to have some kind of vitamin D deficiency going on:

http://able2know.org/topic/159455-3#post-4303697

So far, so good. Chicken Little

i'm old school, i don't use sunscreen, i figure i've done my damage

Literally?

So, an umbrella won't help?

I don't either, though I used to. I stopped lying around on beaches baking my bod in a bikini, calling for a gin and tonic, lots of years ago. Learned about sun screen later. I still have some sunscreen, leftover from when I used to tromp around mapping properties, sometimes on + 100 degree F days - and haven't thrown it out in case for some reason I plan to sit in the sun for any length of time. It's probably rotting there at the bottom of the cupboard.

Oh, now he's off on tetanus shot mercury toxicity. I didn't yell at him this time.

um....Tuesday is August 3rd.

D'oh!

Would you like to work pro bono as my personal thread editor?

Tuesday 3.18 pm here....and we are still in existence.

AURORA WATCH: High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras tonight.
One and possibly two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are heading toward Earth,
propelled by the solar eruptions of August 1st (see below).
NOAA forecasters estimate a 10% chance of major geomagnetic storms
and a 45% chance of at least some geomagnetic activity when the clouds arrive on August 3rd and 4th.

Thank you very much for the update OSDavid! Much obliged.

As the mass ejecta reaches us, you can go outside and looking up with your eyes closed, you may be able to see the flashes of light in your retina as the particles decay and emit a photon. This will give you a perspective of how energetic these solar flares can be.


I used to use that method to check the shielding on xray diffraction equip at the rock labs . Many times techs would keep the shields off so they could quickly adjust the samples in the beam. The Ka1 radiation was a low emission but you could still get zapped and years later, I knew of several xray techs whove gotten various cancers.

Do they have any idea of the energy levels yet? will we lose any satellite service either by a forced shutdown or by zapping?

I have to get ready for work but I've heard a lot of good things about this site:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2010/02aug10/eruptingfilament.mov?PHPSESSID=dtd39tle8ftlv3uvu7l4dpffb6

Sooo...we might all be deaded and not knowing it ?? What about shooting flares back at the sun ? Will that work or just make it mad ?

Of course not... It's now August the 3rd... and the Sky has not fallen in on us all. But then I got my Old Granny to knit me Tin Foil Undercrackers (underpants), and a Tin Foil hat..... so I'm all OK.

I just heard a pop in my cable cli...

I think that's like an ant trying to spit on a hump back whale while the whale is swimming around the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane. That whale will not notice.

But I do like the cathartic nature of the act.