:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 10.31.2003 ::
:: Another CME ::
From Wired News:
Second Solar Storm Blasts Earth
A Reuters report
WASHINGTON -- A second huge magnetic solar storm arrived at Earth on Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hit our planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch.
"It's like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun ... and it's taken two big shots at us," said John Kohl of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
Kohl, the principal investigator for an instrument aboard NASA's sun-watching SOHO spacecraft, said the probability of two huge flares aimed directly at Earth coming so close together, as they have this week, is "unprecedented ... so low that it is a statistical anomaly."
Kohl said the second solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection, peeled off the sun around 4 p.m. EST Wednesday. Charged particles from the ejection started arriving at Earth around 10 a.m. EST Thursday.
This was just a day after an earlier ejection was first detected on Earth, arriving around 1 a.m. EST Wednesday.
The second blast from the sun was moving even faster than the first one did, and some particles from the first linger even as the second onslaught continues, Kohl said in a telephone interview.
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