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October 28th, 2003, 07:06 PM
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Re: Solar flares
shouldn't that go in the ability's for objects thread?
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October 28th, 2003, 08:24 PM
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Re: Solar flares
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
it has the letter's CME directly oposite vertically from where it looks like the CME is being ejected
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The picture you see is looking directly at the sun from here. The CME is not just the mass at the bottom, it's the entire cloudy white area all around the center circle. It makes more sense if you look at the movie they have linked form that page.
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October 28th, 2003, 11:37 PM
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Re: Solar flares
i already looked at the movie. your explanation made sense.
[ October 28, 2003, 21:38: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]
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October 28th, 2003, 11:51 PM
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Re: Solar flares
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Originally posted by se5a:
can you make it so that solar panels on ships give 50% more suplys?
and ships with solar sails get 1 extra normal movement point.
there, those are some good things for a flare
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Very good ideas.  But I don't think it can be easily implemented - extra lines of code with only minor effect on the overall game performance. 
[ November 05, 2003, 09:51: Message edited by: oleg ]
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November 5th, 2003, 11:53 AM
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Re: Solar flares
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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Hey everybody. I see from SOHO that our dependable sun is at it again - Biggest solar flare in quite a while {Link}. Now these flares can occasionally cause some minor problems on Earth. But I wonder about other stars and other planets....
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It is getting bigger and bigger !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3242353.stm
I wonder if our Sun will go Nova soon 
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November 5th, 2003, 01:18 PM
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Re: Solar flares
The new solar flare will probably be rated X40 or higher (which is HUGE):
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...re_031105.html
It's twice as high as the most powerfull flare ever detected with satellites. It's not directed at earth though.
Last weeks flare was directed at earth, and I got to see the Northern lights for the first time in my life  very cool. A very rare event for the netherlands.
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