Solar Burst Could Disrupt TV!

[Craig Clark]

Renata <admichef at SIRIUS.COM> asked:

  > If the Heaven's Gate folks have (or could have) regrets (other than 
  > wearing Nikes), they might involve missing the "coronal mass ejection" 
  > which "sent an expanding ball of plasma, or electrically charged 
  > particles, racing outward from the sun at more than 1.5 million miles per 
  > hour.... "
  > Or, perhaps they have a better view ;-).
  > BTW, did anyone read and/or hear about the solar storm before today's 
  > newspaper?  It was supposedly detected 7AM Monday by the Solar and 
  > Heliosperic Observatory satellite.  The delay in mass media reporting 
  > seems rather odd... 
It was reported on the 20h00 main news bulletin here in SA... Where 
Hale-Bopp will start becoming visible round about now in the early 
evening. A-and there's that Transit of Venus...

Craig Clark
- Ex-King Herod

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"