inconveniences over the next 12 to potentially 24 hours. we ve been talking about the sun here for a good couple of months because we re entering the cycle or part of an 11-year cycle where we re in the solar maximum. the next 18 to 24 months really we ll see a lot of this stuff. what do we mean by that? a lot of this stuff. black areas on the sun. sun spots. a lot of geomagnetic energy there. these are areas that throw out solar flares. we love looking at these puppies. this stuff coming to us. this is as measured in the x-ray part of the wave lengths. that just looks cool. this is the solar flare that happened a day and a half ago. you see it kind of bubbling up and then, boom. there it goes. all those x-rays and radio wave lengths immediately get to the earth. the radio blackout happened about 1.5 days ago. it also emits coronal mass of plasma that s highly charged stuff. that eventually gets to the earth as well. when it does so, boy, we start to see some things happen. t