Do Solar flare / Coronal Mass Ejection events affect IR etc. remote controls?

[François]

So… Don’t use Norway oil in your car if you don’t want to be killed by crashing into a train?

 

[DuncanS]

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Do you have the link for that website? I lost it in a PC failure.

It is great for showing just because you get a strong correlation it doesn't indicate causation. I found one once which was something daft like "the occurrence of blue crisp packets in litter with deaths from flu", the correlation was almost exact.

 

[Soundfield]

Do you have the link for that website? I lost it in a PC failure.

It is great for showing just because you get a strong correlation it doesn't indicate causation. I found one once which was something daft like "the occurrence of blue crisp packets in litter with deaths from flu", the correlation was almost exact.

There are lots of them Duncan, all hilarious, this particular example came from spurious correlations
not on this list, but one of my favourites is the correlation between ice cream sales and the incidence of sun burn! The human brain is a pattern extraction engine and is driven to create connections between events whether they be causally connected or not!

 

[Soundfield]

I'll try and find some of the other sources

 

[DuncanS]

There are lots of them Duncan, all hilarious, this particular example came from spurious correlations
not on this list, but one of my favourites is the correlation between ice cream sales and the incidence of sun burn! The human brain is a pattern extraction engine and is driven to create connections between events whether they be causally connected or not!

I like this one!

 

[J. PUPSTER]

ATTENTION!!!!

Be on the look out today/tonight; a severe CME is coming our way.

As a matter of fact, I noticed some freezing up and major pixilation of my DSL AT&T U-verse video streaming just two nights ago that may have been related.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings

https://apnews.com/article/solar-storm-flares-eruption-sun-fc23251025efc2d20dc128dc0b6a7c68

https://www.newsweek.com/geomagnetic-storm-warning-coronal-mass-ejection-1899232

 

[rjpinca]

 

[Imbobman]

I think the North Koreans are testing an EMP device over @J. PUPSTER s compound......

That's got to be it. I heard kim jong un doesn't like Quad. He's messing with you!

[Boy, J-Pup, your really asking for all the expert QQ members to come out and start the never ending thread .

Hopefully you got a box of band-aids on hand.
Personally, I know nothing.]
Great comment there Marpow!

Seriously, I also have that happen from time to time. It bugs me then goes away....
Maybe some stray IR light from other sources or a software glitch ....
Most of these remotes today are just IR. I had a dish receiver years ago that was both IR & RF capable.
That in 'theory' could get signals from multiple sources.....

 

[J. PUPSTER]

That's got to be it. I heard kim jong un doesn't like Quad. He's messing with you!

[Boy, J-Pup, your really asking for all the expert QQ members to come out and start the never ending thread .

Hopefully you got a box of band-aids on hand.
Personally, I know nothing.]
Great comment there Marpow!

Seriously, I also have that happen from time to time. It bugs me then goes away....
Maybe some stray IR light from other sources or a software glitch ?
Most of these remotes today are just IR. I had a dish receiver years ago that was both IR & RF capable.
That in 'theory' could get signals from multiple sources.....

My pleasure , I should be here all week

 

[kap'n krunch]

We are overdue for another kill shot from the Sun (X class flare) like the one that fried the telegraph back in 1859… another Carrington event which will take us back to the Stone Age…
So live for today, girls…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

 

[Progfiend]

It was an amazing show!

 

[Fourplay]

Aurora from Wyoming - early Saturday morning: