Aurora In The Skies Of Northern Nevada

[Wild Bill]

Beautiful Aurora in Northern Nevada skies right now at 8:55 PM!

 

 

[Wild Bill]

By 9:00 PM it’s gone!  😂

[Wild Bill]

Well… the light show only lasted a short time.

So here’s a cool vintage documentary of placer mining in Fairbanks Alaska.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

It looked just like that here on the Mexican border too. What a show!

Nothing like a bunch of excited photons having a party. 

[JCR]

 They were very visible here in East Texas the night of 11/12. Very rare for us.  

[Mike C...]

Solar flares 👻

[Wild Bill]

I was wondering if a Carrington event would effect modern metal detectors?

https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/intense-solar-radiation-corrupted-a320-flight-systems-airbus-rushes-emergency-update

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/6000-airbus-a320-jets-receive-critical-update-after-intense-solar-radiation-exposure

 

[Bedrock Bob]

17 hours ago, Wild Bill said:

I was wondering if a Carrington event would effect modern metal detectors?

https://www.space.com/the-carrington-event

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/intense-solar-radiation-corrupted-a320-flight-systems-airbus-rushes-emergency-update

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/6000-airbus-a320-jets-receive-critical-update-after-intense-solar-radiation-exposure

 

All events effect the modern metal detector. The most important one is being directly over gold. 

Any detector will scream when you are over a big nugget no matter how the sun is exploding at the moment. 

The little stuff on the surface might depend upon the moods of the sun. The rest is a matter of boot leather and sweat.

There is no technology or solar event that changes that equation very much unless it involves a shovel and some placer savvy, although well developed deltoids and a tolerance for loneliness might be to some small advantage.

Coronal ejaculations are super when you are over gold. They are less than worthless when you are scanning poor gravel. When the sun goes down its all about locating rich earth. 

It's not about what your missin'. It's about what your gettin'. A good spot will pay even if you have two dead batteries and a broken coil wire at the peak of the Carrington event.

The shovel only goes deeper and the angry sun will rise again.

 

[Wild Bill]

Bedrock Bob, I was basically talking about a Carrington event frying the electronics in your metal detector.  Remote but possible.  The sun is fully capable of such antics and after all electronics haven’t been around very long.  Of course with such a situation our detectors failing will be the least of our concerns.  Look up “Micro Nova” and the strange evidence of such a solar outburst in the remote past.  😎