# Attack from the sun! **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [October 24, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854 "2003-10-24T13:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thoriphes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/1 "2003-10-24T13:14:23Z")
A solar storm is on its way from the sun. This could disrupt satellites and mobile phone services. The flares are expected to come…today (Friday). To add, scientists are watching another storm form on the far side of the sun so another one will hit Earth in a couple weeks. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210901.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210901.stm) I didn’t know whether to consider this much of a threat, but I found it interesting. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/2 "2003-10-24T13:27:41Z")
be sure to wear your tinfoil helmets when you go outside I:-) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/3 "2003-10-24T13:34:42Z")
You mean, you haven’t been wearing those tin foil helmets all this time? I never leave the cave without my tin foil helmet :panda: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/4 "2003-10-24T13:36:05Z")
Im alwyays sporting mine. You dont want aliens reading your thoughts do you? (-: pfft… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/5 "2003-10-24T22:14:36Z")
Good… I’ve been freezing my arse up here in PA… BRING IT ON! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/6 "2003-10-24T22:32:16Z")
yeah my physics teacher is devoting a part of class on it wednessday ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/7 "2003-10-24T22:56:23Z")
> \*Originally posted by fester8542 \* > \*\*Im alwyays sporting mine. You dont want aliens reading your thoughts do you? (-: pfft… \*\* that is why I had an aluminum plate installed… hard to keep that hat on while sleeping, and other extra curricular activities (it’s real tough to get laid in a tin foil hat)… Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attack-from-the-sun/33854/8 "2003-10-25T03:56:41Z")
[http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/](http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/) [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/23oct\_superstorm.htm](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/23oct_superstorm.htm)