13th December 2006, 7:58 PM
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/12/13/incoming/
Fortunately, it won't kill us, but it may disrupt some electrical systems, like satellites or maybe Ontario could get another solar blackout (I use "black" figuratively because a lot of crazy electrical activity happened that day). Sounds like fun! Too bad I'm too close to the equator to see the auroras that'll emerge from this...
Fortunately, it won't kill us, but it may disrupt some electrical systems, like satellites or maybe Ontario could get another solar blackout (I use "black" figuratively because a lot of crazy electrical activity happened that day). Sounds like fun! Too bad I'm too close to the equator to see the auroras that'll emerge from this...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)