Earth braces for big solar blast Friday
 

"(CNN) -- Satellites, pagers, cell phones and electrical grids could be affected Friday afternoon by a powerful stream of energized gas and particles from the sun. "

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Effects could last 12 to 18 hours?... im looking forward to the actual effects of such occurance. brance yourself GYFers:thumbsup

nope. not gonna happen

Kick Ass! there are soem wonderful auroras when this happens.
This storm is only a 3/5. Two years ago there was a 3-4 & the northern lights were teh most beautiful thing i had ever seen.
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For me it looked teh most like this last one.

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/space...lindersen1.jpg

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/space...y.sunflare.jpg

awesome, those are really extraordinary streams, yet sometimes they don't act like we expect them.

i've never seen anything like that before - that would be awesome

Its one of those things you should aspire to do in life.

I wonder if it'll smell bad

Damn some awesome pics:D

That is a must do !!!!

What if it sterelized every male on the planet? How would we recover from that? Could we?

:)

~Ray

damn im wondering what we'll see in the west coast it would be sweet to get some lights

We'd have to tap into the sperm banks. In the long run it'd be great cause the world is way too overpopulated anyway. Our kids would all live like gods :glugglug