Is there a solar storm coming to earth?

Friday, April 13, 2029

You’re right. The sun is pretty pissed off with the US in particular.

Never believe chain emails.

I don’t know about the chain mail you got, but Friday, April 13, 2029 is documented. A huge meteor is on its way.

If it follows its current trajectory it will pass between the earth and our satellites. That’s close enough to cause damage if it misses us, and traumatic damage if it makes contact.

@DrBill That really doesn’t have much to do with the question at hand, though.

@boots

The debris it brings with it will constitute a severe solar storm.

Either way that’s pretty ironic that if it did happen or if its going to it will happen on Friday the 13th

@DrBill Fair enough. Do you have an article handy?

I hope to be here, I celebrate every Friday the 13th

Indeed I do
http://news.aol.com/article/solar-storm-warning/437777?icid=webmail|wbml-aim|dl1|link2|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fsolar-storm-warning%2F437777

Sure I do right here

Thank you both.

Yes, a solar storm is on it’s way, again. It could be worse than the one we had 50 years ago, or maybe even worse than the one we had 20 years ago, because we are more dependent on electricity and the solar storm interferes with electricity.

This is not the first, nor the worst. It just sells news.

Some day. It’s inevitable. We can try to predict it, but it’s hard to predict nature.

If we build a lot of solar panels right now, we can capitalize on all that extra energy we can expect to get from the impending solar storm. This is all dependent on if it really happens even though I don’t know if it will.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=7384952

http://www.businessinsider.com/suns-magnetic-field-is-about-to-flip-2013-8