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2006-12-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-
New Forecast: Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth
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Posted by 3dc 2006-12-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1748 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

1 MADONNA'S DADDY as DARTH VADER [breathing] > "LUKE, my son ...".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-14 01:27||   2006-12-14 01:27|| Front Page Top

2 Please don't use the transporter during an ion storm, okay?
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2006-12-14 01:40||   2006-12-14 01:40|| Front Page Top

3 Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth

man the tinfoil hats!

Posted by RD 2006-12-14 03:16||   2006-12-14 03:16|| Front Page Top

4 Heh. Perfect timing.

So far this week at work, we've lost a processor and 3/4ths the memory on a testing database, and lost ALL user access to one of the two production servers. We have about 15,000 users across the US; Thursday is one of the two busiest days of the week; last I heard, we're running on 1/2 capacity.

This Thursday, around noon, is our team Christmas lunch.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-12-14 07:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-12-14 07:24|| Front Page Top

5 I think I'l strip butt-naked, and go lay my pale, soft body on the snow outside. If I'm bathed in enough of those cosmic radiations, I just might develop a few superpowers of my own. It really works, I read this in the Fantasfic Four.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-14 08:32||   2006-12-14 08:32|| Front Page Top

6 Some are also accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CME), clouds of charged particles that arrive in a day or two. This flare unleashed a strong CME that's aimed squarely at Earth.

Sounds to me like NASA has hired an ex porn writer to do their news releases.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-12-14 08:46||   2006-12-14 08:46|| Front Page Top

7 I think we can agree that "coronal mass ejection" is much more highbrow than "spurts of solar jism'.
Posted by SteveS 2006-12-14 09:28||   2006-12-14 09:28|| Front Page Top

8 "storminess"? Is that a word? If so, I nominate it above "truthiness" for the word of the year. Hey, it's not New Year's yet, there's still time, right?
Posted by BA 2006-12-14 09:34||   2006-12-14 09:34|| Front Page Top

9 I love the tinfoil hat pic!
Oh, by the way, NASA is doing a major spacewalk today! Guess they have good insurance policies on the poor guinea pigs astronauts.
Posted by 3dc 2006-12-14 09:50||   2006-12-14 09:50|| Front Page Top

10 ...I think I saw this movie on MST3K once...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-14 10:12||   2006-12-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

11 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are not expected to be put at additional risk, Kunches said.

Nicely phrased. Flares are no joke above the atmo.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-12-14 10:23||   2006-12-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

12 coronal mass ejections (CME)

Does it wash off, or will I have to take it to the dry cleaners?
Posted by Raj 2006-12-14 12:44||   2006-12-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

13 Its Bush's fault because he didnt help with global warming!

/kos
/du
Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-14 13:54||   2006-12-14 13:54|| Front Page Top

14 "..coronal mass ejections...The science of it all is a gray area."
It's the failure to sign on to Kyoto! Al Gore Call your office.
Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ 2006-12-14 17:02|| http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/]">[http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/]  2006-12-14 17:02|| Front Page Top

15 Damn, Ima need a sigma thingy for my frist letter.
Posted by hipman 2006-12-14 17:21||   2006-12-14 17:21|| Front Page Top

16 "Its Bush's fault because he didnt help with global warming!"

And Halliburton! You forgot Halliburton!
Posted by no mo uro 2006-12-14 17:40||   2006-12-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

17 Coronal mass ejections resulting in spastic lurching and jerking.
Why it's the twelvth Imam.
or was that the twelfth imam ?
Posted by wxjames 2006-12-14 19:15||   2006-12-14 19:15|| Front Page Top

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