Lawnmower Red Alert!

[Knight of Clear Skies]

The cause of Tuesday's spurious aurora red alert has been identified, apparently a rouge lawnmower wandered too close to a magnetometer at the University of Lancaster.

[Stu]

Funny. I guess someone grassed them up  

[Yamez]

[SilverAstro]

16 minutes ago, Knight of Clear Skies said:

apparently a rouge lawnmower wandered

Got lost in the rough no doubt

Are all lawnmowers rouge, or are some green ?

Some of us can remember when grass on the radar was a problem   ( aurora can reflect radio, amateur radio ops. can communicate over unusually long distance by it, though the doppler movement of the auroral curtain causes wierd distortions especially on voice tx.  Just thort u'd like to know,   )

 

[Knight of Clear Skies]

7 minutes ago, SilverAstro said:

Are all lawnmowers rouge, or are some green ?

The rogue ones are almost exclusively rouge.

[johnrt]

I think they need to upgrade the mower at the University, this one just isn't "cutting it".

[ngwillym]

anyone invented a gas powered lawn mower?

[baggywrinkle]

Had it been true the aurora might have been a cut above normal.....

[Pippy]

If we really can't design a system that can't yet distinguish between a lawnmowers electrical/magnetic signature and an auroras electrical/magnetic signature, maybe we ought to be setting our current sights a little lower than sending humans to Mars ?

[spike95609]

How wonderfully British. Or maybe this could be a penicillin moment and they've stumbled on a connection between Lawnmowers and activity in the magnetosphere? We need to harness their collective power. Imagine the auroras we'd get if everyone used their mowers at the same time!

[bejay1957]

Lawnmower detector has just issued an amber alert...

[Stub Mandrel]

37 minutes ago, bejay1957 said:

Lawnmower detector has just issued an amber alert...

It's the Met Office's 'yellow snow warnings' that worry me.

[kev]

Snow already!!

itsbad enough with xmas cards, new range clothes, and spring bulbs in the shops!

 

[Peter Drew]

On 9/1/2016 at 21:50, Stub Mandrel said:

It's the Met Office's 'yellow snow warnings' that worry me.

Yellow snow is avoidable, it's blue snow you have to be wary of!