"Roger Long" om wrote in
message ...
| Last weeks solar flare was a non-event except for "a few aircraft
navigation
| systems" as NPR put it. The one that erupted this morning and will reach
| earth Wednesday or Thursday is believed by astronomers to be possibly the
| largest since the invention of the integrated circuit.
|

Well, that flare is due here today. The news media are hysterical, talking
about the enormous danger to aircraft navigation systems. NPR has gone
absolutely ballistic. The general public should be whipped into a frenzy,
fearing that it will start raining airplanes any second.

Of course, the 'fair and balanced media' (and I do not mean just FOX, here),
will report tomorrow that nothing serious happened. Right? I mean, they do
admit when they are wrong, don't they?