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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
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Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
 |  Subject: Look folks, the sun is raining  Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:02 pm | |
|  Last three days of solar proton measurements from the GOES satellite. So far I haven't heard of any major spacecraft anomalies, but lots of space telescopes are getting lousy data... | |
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dusty
Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-06-19
Age : 77
Location : near london, ontario canada...out in the country
My Birds : congo african grey (coco)
blue fronted amazons (willie and vasgo)
sun conure (simon)
greencheeked conure (jack)
senegal (walter)
senegal (crockett)
goffin cockatoo (sammy)
moluccan cockatoo (mango)
severe macaw (cody)
quaker (yoshi)
Posts : 838
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:52 pm | |
| did you let the birds loose with the markers again....lol
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:17 pm | |
| Wow! That's....
meaningless to me! But it certainly looks significant and VERY important! | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:23 pm | |
| The plot shows a sharp jump in energetic charged particle output from the sun in the direction of earth. It peaked early yesterday and is slowly dieing down, which is typical of these events.
The charged particles are what wreak the most havoc with electronics, although very few get through the Earth's magnetic field. They definitely mess with satellites. They also make for spectacular aurora displays if you happen to be far enough north for that.
Couple of years ago, this plot looked like this, I'd get a phone call in the middle of the night and we'd sit around arguing if we should turn Spitzer Space Telescope's Science Instruments off to reduce the odds of damage or not... | |
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zazanomore
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 31
Location : Thunder Bay, Ontario
My Birds : Einstein - Cockatiel [3]
Charlie Bird - Cockatiel [15]
Clyde - Budgie [4]
Bonnie - Budgie [4]
Madoc - Budgie [1]
Posts : 1474
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:23 pm | |
| End of the world? End of the world. | |
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:55 pm | |
| Is that what they call a Solar Flare? | |
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kaeladedah
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 35
Location : North Carolina, USA
My Birds : Cheney Bird, Green Cheek Conure
Pigpen, Lutino Budgie
Nava, Lutino Lovebird
Oliver, Indian Ring Neck
Posts : 1449
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:08 pm | |
| Man, I wish I were as smart as you are. :[ | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:18 pm | |
| - zazanomore wrote:
- End of the world? End of the world.
Nah.  Seriously this happens with some frequency. The last one that was this significant was in 2003. - VickiNumbers wrote:
- Is that what they call a Solar Flare?
Yes. Technically a flare is an increase in visual brightness. I'd call this a CME (Cornoal Mass Ejection) aka the outer layer of the sun throwing off stuff, but they are correlated. - KayLayUh wrote:
- Man, I wish I were as smart as you are. :[
Trust me, you are. I ain't smart, I just be edjumacated.
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GlassOnion
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 32
Location : Vancouver
My Birds : Cockatiel, Budgerigar
Posts : 1209
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:20 pm | |
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kaeladedah
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 35
Location : North Carolina, USA
My Birds : Cheney Bird, Green Cheek Conure
Pigpen, Lutino Budgie
Nava, Lutino Lovebird
Oliver, Indian Ring Neck
Posts : 1449
| | Subject: Re: Look folks, the sun is raining Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:25 pm | |
| - KayLayUh wrote:
- Man, I wish I were as smart as you are. :[
Trust me, you are. I ain't smart, I just be edjumacated. [/quote] I can't read this forum at the library because you people make me snort when I laugh.  | |
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