There's been a Coronal Mass Ejection (?) and a bonzoid geo-magnetic storm is heading this way tomorrow. Not a joke/wind-up. Just heard it on the radio. Check out this site for more technical info.....

http://www.spaceweather.com/

WE'RE ALL DOOMED !!!!!!!!

say goodbye to mobile phone networks and gps for definate tomorrow then

Dont worry, according to the mayans we are ok until december

Bye-bye electronic crap in cars. Electricity supplies. Unhardened communications. On the plus side we might have the Northern Lights to look at - as there won't be anything on the telly !!

(It's being so cheerful that keeps me going!)

quality , ive been waiting a few years for a big one to see what would really happen

it could get really interesting if satellites and electronics all pack up ,

There was a programme on telly last night all about this. It's on the BBC iplayer if anyone particularly wants to watch it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...Solar_Storms_The_Threat_to_Planet_Earth/

...you might just have time before the internet crashes!

Well looks like were all stil here

It's not arrived yet.

Should I order 6 pints straight away in case the electricity supply goes off & the pumps die?

What times it due then?

Come on the suspence is killing me lol

EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OK. I think Gallaghers pub still use the old hand pumps for the Trappers. Mmmmm....Getting there could be a problem ?

If I remember rightly they also affect normal hf comms as well as the VHF/UHF, so should be fun to see how we cope when everything crashes. Always reckoned the total switch to digital was dodgy because it goes up on the high bands.
I'm ok, I can walk to Gallaghers.
Sod you Jack, I'm inboard.

What times supposed to get here then????

On the BBC1 news this lunchtime they said "between now and 11pm".

I've got my tinfoil hat on. Does it have to be earthed ??

you feeling okay Pinz

I'm still getting the headaches Lightning!!!

So what do we do, sit and look out of the window for the next 9 hours, or just wait until we hear of someone with a tinfoil hat on, has gone up in smoke?

LMAO, i have just spat my juice all over the keyboard.
If we see a man flying in space all light up Granny, we know it wasn t a good idea for Pinz to suggest that first guy to test out the hat .
Pinz you will be in the guinness book of records

A learned geezer on the news said it can take out power supplies. If it's that strong, I'm building a Faraday cage to shelter in. Someone told me I should be behind bars !!!!

Just make sure you got rubber soles on your boots Pinz

And don't hold onto the bars!!

what a load of bollox

:r:am still watching.the neighbours will be saying why she looking out her window all the time.
So will i see Pinz flying past with his foil hat in flames or the solar thing .
Or what ste says bollocks on fire

Oh no. PLEASE not the latter !!!!!!

Ha ha.... he'll be jet propelled. Are we likely to see any flashing?

Havent see anything yet Pinz or Granny ??? maybe we will see it if we have too many wee drams

Look towards Liverpool or thereabouts for the Northern Lights, if we're lucky. Last time I saw them I was up off Iceland, beautiful.

My phone has been flashing non stop for the last two hours.

Just had a red hot apparition. Think it could have been Pinz doing a fly-past!

I bet his ears are ringing

Really was it late at night ?

The Northern Lights are beautiful.

Really was it late at night ? [/quote]

No, it was noon and the sun was shining.

No, it was noon and the sun was shining. [/quote]

No, it was noon and the sun was shining. [/quote] get it now give me a chance lol.
i did take a nice pic of the moon tonite will put a pic up later.

No, it was noon and the sun was shining. [/quote] get it now give me a chance lol.
i did take a nice pic of the moon tonite will put a pic up later.
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You're a clever girl really!

Could have been a wobbly rainbow...

(or maybe raining Skittles?)

:r:good one

get it now give me a chance lol.
i did take a nice pic of the moon tonite will put a pic up later.
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You're a clever girl really! [/quote]yeah you clever as well. should we put a missing sign out for Pinz lol

Good idea, I suppose with hat, boots and friend on his shoulder he could have got stuck in the bunker.It conjours up a picture anyway. Maybe the key has got lost or aliens arrived and spooked them up. Yeah, definitely put a missing sign up.

lol am wetting myself laughing here Granny your funny

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Sorry Jase, just got a little excited in my old age. No harm meant, must be time for bed! Night.

night Granny am sure pinz will keep us updated hun xx

Well said Jase

Back on topic (ahem). Just got up to see if the Northern Lights (offshoot of the solar storm) were switched on. Can't see a thing. Total cloud cover here. Sod's Law eh?

Looks like all the electrickery stuff and electronicrap gismos are still working OK.

Has anyone heard of anything actually being interupted/damaged by the storm ? It seems to have dropped off the news now. The BBC World Service hasn't mentioned it at all during the wee small hours.

Back to the pit........... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Thanks Pinz for keeping us updated

As mentioned in yesterday's post at 6.20pm, my mobile had been flashing almost continuously for the previous two hours. It was still doing so at 6.50pm when I went out, but was put in my bag.
I suppose some might have taken that particular post as banter,as there was a lot of banter at the time, by many peeps, but it wasn't. Don't know if that counts as part of your enquiry Pinz.

I was looking out most the day and night and never saw anything like i said.
It was a lovely thread though Pinz x

Sorry Rude, did I upset you too? Thought the topic had really petered-out by that time and there had been a lot of banter all day, in most of the previous 4 pages of posts. Anyway I'll be gagged and back in my bath chair by 10pm tonight, to avoid a reocurrence.

Here's what happened in the end:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...gest-solar-flare-5-years-hits-Earth.html

Don't see any mention of Pinz on the NASA web-site...

Thanks for that link Geekus. Great non-events of our time eh?
Ho-hum. I eat some of the reserve provisions whilst in the bunker. 1/3d on the label of the Baked Beans. Not feeling so good now. Uh oh rambling again! Bye.

1/3d for a tin of baked beans; where do you shop, Harrods or Fortnum & Mason?

Is that to go with the Chriskay?

Thanks geekus

Watching the lunchtime news, they showed pictures of the Northern Lights in what looked like normal daylight conditions.

Don't know exactly what time the images on telly were taken but reading up on it, it is apparently possible for the Northern Lights to be seen during the daytime (but it's rare).

Sorry Lightning, I take back my 'wobbly rainbow' remark!

That pillock Fred said they might show tonight, no sign up to now. At least I have been lucky enough to have seen them, if you do they will fill you with wonderment. No wonder the ancients used to think there were gods up there doing stuff. Maybe we're not far enough north.

Don't think the bright moon is helping matters, Bandy. It'll probably bleach out the Northern Lights.

Well worth looking out for though.

Had another look lat night, zilch. According to reports this activity is going be sporadic for the next couple of years so eventully we might touch lucky, it's well recommended.

Lol we we did try Geekus. even Bandi ,Pinz and polly.
Never mind eh we got a laugh from this thread, I enjoyed it

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