When will SkyNet become self aware?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If I don't make it, you guys can have my shoes.

What size are they. And I hope they aren't brown. I prefer black. Thx

Human sacrifice to appease the gods might be necessary!!!

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
10M band opening?

Possibly even more than that.

Mrs. Flash once talked from Mauna Kea on the Big Island in Hawaii to Northern California on 2 Meters and 5 watts.

There was a big solar storm in the winter of '89. I remember talking with people on Ft. Sill (OK) from Ft. Drum (NY) with a PRC-77. 6M with 2W (IIRC). I thought that was pretty cool given those old radios usually only went about 5 miles.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If I don't make it, you guys can have my shoes.

What size?

Left is a 10D, right is a 14EEE

Are we dead yet?

It's raining here. It must have put out the flare.

They are saying that the Aurora could be visible as far south as PA. Hopefully I can see it tonight.

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Originally posted by mark123:
Are we dead yet?

And at those weird points of time,
Where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.
And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream.

I read that (weather permitting) the Aurora might be seen in Arkansas. I did see the Aurora Borealis in north central Arkansas back in the late 1940s (rural, dark sky).

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I read that (weather permitting) the Aurora might be seen in Arkansas.

Yeah, they're saying that it may be visible on the northern horizon as far south as Oklahoma City, whose latitude is about 45 minutes south of me.

The same thing happened almost exactly a decade ago, on 10/25/11. A similar solar flare resulted in the Northern Lights being visible through much of the northern half of Arkansas. But I didn't get a chance to see them that time.

Here's what they looked like in Central Arkansas back in 2011:

Figures. It’s been drizzling for 2 weeks straight here in OH.

We ain’t gonna see crap.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Possibly even more than that.

Mrs. Flash once talked from Mauna Kea on the Big Island in Hawaii to Northern California on 2 Meters and 5 watts.

That happens most years - it is called tropospheric ducting. People standing in elevated areas along the coast are able to make those contacts. I believe July is one of the months that it is common.

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Originally posted by SigSAC:

That happens most years - it is called tropospheric ducting. People standing in elevated areas along the coast are able to make those contacts. I believe July is one of the months that it is common.

Yep, it is.

Northern Lights May Be Visible In NJ: Latest Forecast
A geomagnetic storm could make the Northern Lights visible in New Jersey this Halloween weekend.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/b...l&utm_campaign=alert

I’m disappointed that the plot of Revolution hasn’t occurred yet and all electrical devices worldwide have failed and we have suddenly gone from 2021 back to an 1821 level of tech.

I was fully prepared to declare myself the Commanding General of the PASig Republic and we’d immediately go to war with those savages from New Jersey for their resources and women:

Sort of like this guy, I’d set up my HQ at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and would have a loyal militia:

something happened at 6am this morning. my phone gps had me out for a 20 min walk while i was asleep.

My wife and I are sitting in our suv at the south end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park waiting for the Northern Lights. This is a primo spot to see them - if they cooperate. I’ll post pictures if we see them. About 8:15 pm now and really dark under a cloudless sky.

We were completely overcast here. I went to bed instead of watching. Did anyone see anything interesting?