20 September 2010

it may be devastating but it'll be pretty

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Coronal mass ejections cause really pretty Northern Lights, and when they're big, they're not that northern. Heck, everybody might get a gander as the power grid goes down and all our circuits fry. Sounds kind of romantic to me... in the moment... not the sequela... I'm not utterly daft, you know.

I'm recommending the purchase of HORSES. Get 'em while they're still cheap.

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love, 99
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4 comments:

  1. A few years back there was a solar storm and even here in Sacto, with the street lights and all, I could see the northern lights - red curtains in the sky.

    Back in Wisconsin they were frequent during the winter months - one type of display seemed to rise from all of the horizons and stream out into space overhead. You could picture the solar wind rushing past the earth.

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  2. Well, the one coming, is, by all accounts, going to be a whopper, the grandaddy of all mass ejections. So the view might be extra-wonderful because all the lights everywhere, but in the sky of course, might just tank from it.

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  3. Hope they can predict it in enough time to unplug my computer and put it in a lead box. (If that is even enough protection)

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  4. You wouldn't enjoy yer computer much with no one else to connect to anyway....

    Vote for me and it'll be new FANCY computers for everyone, on zero point energy electricity, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... to invoke the King of Siam.

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