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The Sun, Fireball, and Phone Service Outage

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 22 Feb 24

Last night into early morning, thousands of smartphone customers lost services. Most media sources say that it was caused by a solar flare. At the same time, a huge fireball flew over several states. Someone in Pennsylvania...

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Caste Reservations - Is it necessary or not??

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 2 Aug 18

As I live in India, nowadays, there are protests carried out by certain communities in order to get reserved seats in Education and Legal Sectors. In Maharashtra, the Maratha community holded the protests and carried out rallies...

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Students on Strike

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 23 Mar 17

Some of the students on my team tried to incite other students into going on strike to protest a teacher. Oddly enough, the teacher they want to protest is not even one of their own teachers. The teacher who sparked the protest...

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Forgetting Leads to Problems.

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 30 Jul 16

My day was off to an early start as I needed to get my car in for it's service. It was very cold, 3 degrees C and visibility was poor and I needed to travel over 100klms. A roo crossing the road came close but we missed each other...

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Bad Luck Strikes!

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 28 Feb 16

This morning I received a text message from my sister-in-law that my brother is going to be interviewed in a radio station. Makes me wonder why mom was very agitated all of a sudden and ask me to record it. But instead the radio...

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solar storms causing disruption of signal on internet and cellphones

tigeraunt @tigeraunt (6326) • Philippines 16 Aug 11

i cannot be very certain about the date (maybe three weeks or a month ago), but i have read news about solar storm affecting the earth and it is potentially vulnerable to electromagnetic disruption. if i remember correctly, it...

electromagnetic

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What do you fear the most?

adinukala @adinukala (67) • India 22 Jul 09

People have some phobia or the other. Some are pretty harmless whereas some disrupt not only their lives, but also their near and dear ones too. Some are afraid of going in a lift, some cannot be in a dark room, some cannot sleep...

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construction at work

Trace86 @Trace86 (5030) • United States 8 Jan 09

The nursing home where I work is remodeling my floor. It is driving me crazy! I worked on the weekend and I had a desk. There was no carpeting on the hallways, but I had a desk. Tuesday, after having a day off Monday, there was no...

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Does thunderstorms affects the signal of my modem?

Antzon @Antzon (159) • Singapore 5 Sep 08

I do not know if this is true but i faced one situation before where it is raining very heavily and i am using my computer to surf and in 1 hour, i faced 5 disconnections and i need to reboot my cable modem everytime. It was very...

electric charges

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Tony Awards

worldwise1 @worldwise1 (14885) • United States 16 Jun 08

I always enjoy the Tony Awards immensely as I thought I would do last night. It was not to be, however, due to stormy weather and the constant interruptions from the station to issue and update alerts and bulletins. I have to say...

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We Have Sleepless Nights, But We Have Buses Again! Woohoo!!!:)

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 14 Apr 08

Since the 18th October, there have been hoards of workmen and heavy plant in our Street. For four months or so, the bottom of the Street was closed off, as they upgraded the storm drains and sewage system, but they ran into...

sleepless nights

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How do you feel about people talking on their cell phones during a movie?

kgwat70 @kgwat70 (13387) • United States 5 Dec 06

I think it is extremely rude for someone to talk on their cell phone during the movie or even having it on and hearing the ringing. It is very distracting and sometimes you are not sure if it is the movie or not. This is one of...

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