Solar Radiation ... O ... M ... G ... !?!

 Be afraid kids be very afraid. A most intense solar radiation storm is right now battering our precious Mother Earth and all the crap-o-la that is currently orbiting our Planet at this very minute. Satellites will be at risk. Astronauts will be at risk. Cosmonauts will be at risk. Taikonauts will be at risk. Everyone will ... no that's not correct ... everyone IS at risk. The most serious solar radiation storm in more than twenty years is raining solar radiatropes all over everywhere and there is absolutely nowhere to run or hide. Well excepting of course IF one happens to own a heavily leaded survival bunker buried, ummm, I don't know ... fifty or a hundred feet below ground. That might be enough but scientists aren't exactly certain. If scientists aren't exactly certain well we regular folk are simply radiated and ass out. I can image that the space bound folk up in those space stations are throwing up blankets and whatever else might be available for those instances when our sun vomits up a dang nasty dose of stuff that the sun tends to propel at dang near light speed out into space and beyond ... to infinity. According to Buzz Lightyear. Lightyear is an accredited space guy and so he can say that. Anyway the official and the main source of space weather and assorted phenomena that would be the Space Weather Prediction Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a somewhat dire warning to anyone paying even a teeny wee bit of attention to what the pros have to say and that dire warning looks like this -

The alert is for real and is seriously serious as in ... "we're not fooling around guys so pay attention." On the upside you'll be able to head to the beach for a stretch out on the sand and get your yearly dose of solar radiation in about ten or so minutes. You'll take on the appearance of a boiled and glowing lobster fresh out of the microwave. So there you go. Now for our Wednesday machine art spectacular. Please someone cue the camel ... make sure the camel has plenty of sunscreen. Much obliged. 

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for the intrepid kids up in those space stations, they've go no real protection from dire and dreaded most intense solar radiation storms in twenty years so ... they've mostly got to just duck and cover. to coin an old civil defense motto. ah the good old days ... 😏