# Giant Solar blast headed for earth tonight 2/16 2/17 **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [February 17, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887 "2011-02-17T00:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/1 "2011-02-17T00:33:27Z")
[Giant Solar Blast Headed for Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/big-solar-flare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher) I plan to have my camera tonight 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mr\_t42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mr\_t42](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/mr_t42)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/2 "2011-02-17T01:03:15Z")
I went shopping for a hydrocarbon genny to back up the small renewable grid. Wish it was here already, I suspect at least one major grid in both hemispheres may feel it’s wrath (like the canada recently). The power companies propose placing resistors in big tranny’s will fix the grid probs…nobody’s mentioned the mass damage our sattelitte and coms network will cop. Guess I’ll dust off my HAM station, just i case. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/3 "2011-02-17T18:29:40Z")
[Solar flare: Radiation from solar flare expected to hit today - latimes.com](http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-solar-flare-20110218,0,2353554.story) ---
**Author:** ![Onedzguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/onedzguy/32/1382_2.png) [@Onedzguy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Onedzguy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/4 "2011-02-18T01:10:05Z")
NO. Not now. The last thing I need to see is the electricity flicker and go off. I’m going to see Charmane Star at 939 tonight. And I’m packing mones! ODG ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/5 "2011-02-18T20:29:21Z")
> [@Onedzguy](#): > > NO. Not now. The last thing I need to see is the electricity flicker and go off. I’m going to see Charmane Star at 939 tonight. And I’m packing mones! > > ODG LOL, I had no idea even what that was until I googled it. The lights out might be a fun thing for yah 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![P51Mustang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/p51mustang/32/1266_2.png) [@P51Mustang](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/P51Mustang)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/6 "2011-02-19T16:41:39Z")
Did you ever get any pictures Steve? ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/7 "2011-02-20T20:41:47Z")
> [@P51Mustang](#): > > Did you ever get any pictures Steve? Nope, nothing to see. No aurora, not even no satellites plunging to earth. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Whitehall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/whitehall/32/1087_2.png) [@Whitehall](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Whitehall)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/8 "2011-02-21T07:12:55Z")
We’ve had these before. Sometimes damage is done but we’ve learned a few things the last 30 years or so. The transmission lines that run radially from magnetic North see geo-currents. These can overload currents in generator neutral connections. A few years ago, a transformer in New Jersey burnt out as did one in Ontario. The US even put up a special satellite to give us early warning of coming solar storms. Don’t worry - I suspect this is being overplayed by the press. ---
**Author:** ![Onedzguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/onedzguy/32/1382_2.png) [@Onedzguy](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Onedzguy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/9 "2011-02-21T22:21:48Z")
Does the early warning satellite get fried first before we know something is wrong? ODG ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/10 "2011-02-24T08:15:10Z")
PQ, with your permission I’d like to copy this to the archive thread. ---
**Author:** ![Whitehall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/whitehall/32/1087_2.png) [@Whitehall](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Whitehall)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/11 "2011-02-25T04:32:48Z")
Don’t have an answer on the satellite getting fried, but I suspect they designed for that. Were there any reports of damage or outages? I haven’t heard of any, supporting my hypothesis of this being a way to sell newspapers and air time and not a huge concern. ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/giant-solar-blast-headed-for-earth-tonight-2-16-2-17/48887/12 "2011-02-25T18:15:23Z")
> [@Whitehall](#): > > Don’t have an answer on the satellite getting fried, but I suspect they designed for that. > > Were there any reports of damage or outages? I haven’t heard of any, supporting my hypothesis of this being a way to sell newspapers and air time and not a huge concern. The only follow-up reports I read was radio interference but other than that it was a dud.