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I don't buy the 'routine testing' soundbyte either. We have lived here for many years, and we've never heard anything like that since we came to Columbus. Even an M1A1 Abrams, or a Paladin aren't as loud as what we heard today, ubless you're very close to them. I also thought there was an FAA regulation against making sonic booms like that over cities...unless there was a darn good reason. GA Air Nat'. Guard routine testing should normally not be done over cities-whatever their website says.Looks like the military aircraft sonic boom excuse is being given in this case as a means to cover-up the increasing frequency of meteors entering and exploding in the atmosphere. Can't have people waking up and realizing their leaders are powerless to protect them.
Wide swatch CME now visible in updated LASCO C3 imagery. More to come. pic.twitter.com/FxxP9RHTFhForecasters don't yet know when the solar storm - which erupted from the Sun's surface late Wednesday - will arrive here or which part of the planet will be facing the brunt of the effects. It could arrive as early as this afternoon Australian time, or may take a few days.
- SolarHam (@SolarHam) September 10, 2014
Major X1.6 solar flare observed around region 2158. A fast moving CME likely associated and possibly Earth directed.pic.twitter.com/DsKsrZ74DIScientists will have a better idea after they get more satellite data. Solar flares in the "extreme" scale can cause geomagnetic storms capable of bringing down power grids, damaging satellites and disrupting radio transmissions. More often, the only effect is to brighten the auroras over the north and southern hemispheres.
- SolarHam (@SolarHam) September 10, 2014
Sailing through an #Aurora into #Sunrise. #SpaceVine#Timelapse. https://t.co/y5xGBLxWtQ
- Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) September 9, 2014
Comment: SOTT's fireball heat map for the past year: