@@NearlyH3adlessNick So being nice to each other is the nature of humans - and killing each other came with civilization? You might want to rethink that, mate.
@@peka__ Nah, sorry I wasn't clear, I just meant war then was a lot less total destruction scorched earth kinda mentality. Killing has been in our blood probably since we dropped the gills, hatred for one another because of physical, cultural and religious differences is a little newer.
I did a research project on solar flares, more specifically The Carrington Event when I was in grade 8 and no one thought it had actually happened! People (including science fair judges & teachers) thought it was just an urban myth, despite the weeks of research I had done and evidence I presented. I am so happy that you have made a video about this, because if something were to occur like this today it would be bad news - that's probably an understatement.
It is incredible the amount of electricity that was just sort of bouncing around in the atmosphere. The idea of turning something’s power supply off and it just running off what it was conducting from the air is really incredible even if it is kind of terrifying to imagine this happening now
It doesn't bounce. It was a massive stream of charged particles hitting the Earth. Any long piece of wire will act as an antenna and pick up a current induced by the changing magnetic field of such a large current. The bigger the wire, the more it picks up. So telegraph lines, which span hundreds of miles, are able to pick up a very substantial current for as long as those charged particles keep coming.
I've had dreams and written stories about an aurora that lit and powered the world... I was a wee lass when I had those dreams and wrote those stories, and had no idea about the Carrington Event, nor did I understand anything about auroras or the activities of the sun. So... I'm just excited that the thing that I thought was just some subconscious and fantastical thing actually happened.
@@JustBadGrammarwow that is incredible! Seriously! I wonder what exactly is your connection to this event, because to me it does sounds like you are connected to this event somehow, maybe you’re related to someone who witnessed it, is 8-28 your bday, or the area where you were living at the time of the dream stood witness to this event? Soo cool
As an Australian who in the last year who has experienced 1 in 100 year droughts, fires, floods, mouse plague, and pandemic, I am now expecting this in the next few days.
@@luvondarox You don't wanna know. Mice have exploded, literally blanketing entire swaths of civilization. They chew people and animals up alive, and can destroy anything in their path. Mice and rats are the worst creatures on the planet, and in large numbers, they can cause widespread devastation.
Fun fact: We came extremely close to experiencing a Carrington Level Event in 2012. There was a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on July 23, 2012. It missed the Earth by roughly nine days.
I remember this! Everyone was so freaked out at the thought, but I was 14 so I didn’t understand the severity. Now I’m sat here after seeing my country’s reaction to a pandemic and I’m shitting myself at the thought of another carrington event haha
I just referenced this video last week to my brother who had never heard of the Carrington Event. Low and behind I’m back again after this weekend’s solar storm. So cool.
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If anyone finds themselves anxious about the overdue Carrington storm, an event of this size happened in 2012 and missed the earth by 9 days. It could still happen again, but "the big one" isn't necessarily due any day. It made me feel better, I hope it helps you if you need it.
exactly! ive been telling ppl 2012 was a near miss when we talk ab apocalypse scenarios. its surprising not many ppl know. If it happens only a week or so earlier, we'd have quite a huge set back
Yeah ...go look at the sun right now and our 21% diminished magnetic field strength.... problem is today, ALL your " smart " devices WILL catch fire, and we are more due for a charlamagne event... following many Carrington events ,go look at SOHO...then tell me by the way if you haven't noticed this week we got direct shots from CMEs ..3 of them
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When I was 16 we flew over the North Pole and got a great view of the northern lights. It was an incredible experience, but I knew what it was. I can only imagine if that showed up for a week over my small Georgia town in the 1800s. No doubt a lot of Bible reading cramming for finals.
@@bunnyluver2176 yeah lol try telling that to the US Republicans though. They're the ones mainly that don't want to do ANYTHING about it. Just look at the way US Republicans act because of global warming. They don't care about global warming. They only care about profit at the expense of global warming.
@@miked7212 no such thing as global warming. Its the season's of earth. Won't be the first time nor the last that we got an ice age or whatever happens this time around. Its just how earth evolves over time and it is what it is. We humans really are so arrogant to think this planet needs us and that "climate change"/"global warming"/ whatever, is a bad thing (it is for us tho lol) . Besides this shouldn't be politically charged it should be non-partisan. If u want to say repubs are ignoring this tgen democRATS want to move us into a communism and think the green new deal is actually possible and not a terrible stupid idea . None of this even matters anyway , has nothing to do with our planets weather . U think we in America are so bad huh ? It's funny cuz we are so low on the scale we got nothing even close to the pollution that China , by itself puts out . Ijs
@@tindaloxxii6513 - exactly - because politics has nothing to do with how the world runs and how major threats and crises are handled. PS. I'm guessing you made your overly sensitive comment because you realised you bet on the wrong horse but can't quite look yourself in the eye and admit you you were conned - so the natural response is to get defensive. I want to tell you that it's ok - you were sick of liars - we all were - so you rolled the dice on a bullshitter. Perfectly natural Even though it nearly ended up destroying the country
@@5ynthesizerpatel Who ended up almost destroying the country? It was the governors with the endless lock downs that are reeking havoc on the economy. It was congress that passed the idiotic stimulus bills. Yes I know that Trump signed 2 out of the 3 bills. It was Joe that signed that last and least necessary bill with so much pork in it and had little to do with covid. Only 10% of the last bill had anything to do with covid. Lastly blame the American people demanding the stupid bills. We are at fault for tearing down our economy. There is no such thing as free money. Lastly, if Trump lied so much, name 5 big lies he made. I do not want to hear opinions he had like covid would disappear by April, that is an opinion. I also do not want to hear about puffery he said. I want big real lies. The press and the dems lied like hell. Russia gate, Covington kids and more.
@@TheLittlered1961 There are so, so many to choose from, but here is a random assortment of the first that come to mind: 1) Trump repeatedly took credit for the Veterans Choice program. He touted this "accomplishment" countless times during his 2020 campaigning, going so far as saying that the then-deceased Vietnam vet John McCain failed to get the bill passed, and that Trump himself succeeded at passing it. In reality, John McCain was the key Republican Senator behind the Veterans Choice bill, which passed in 2014 and was signed into law by Obama. 2) Trump claimed countless times that he had a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) and that he would always protect people with pre-existing conditions. In reality, his administration advanced a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court that specifically argued that the ACA's protection for people with pre-existing conditions was unconstitutional and should be voided. In his entire four year term, he never once produced even an inkling of a healthcare plan to replace that protection. 3) Trump incorrectly claimed that Alabama was was likely to be hit by Hurricane Dorian, when the state had already bern ruled out of all forecast predictions. NOAA had to issue a public statement advising panicked residents of Alabama that they were, in fact, not in danger. This would have been an innocent mistake (albeit the kind a President should never make), had he admitted his error and corrected himself. Instead he doubled down on his false claim, hosting a national press event where he presented a printed NOAA forecast map that had been modified with a Sharpie to show Alabama inside the forecast path. This sort of tampering with and presentation of falsified weather forecast documents is a crime, and he committed it in front of a national audience. Trump then ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction from NOAA for their public statement that had corrected his original false claim. After this political pressure, NOAA did publish an unsigned letter in support of Trumps claim, which directly contradicted their original statement. This prompted an outcry from meteorologists and multiple formal investigations by NWS which found that two NOAA administrators had twice violated the organization's scientific integrity policy by issuing the retraction statement. I won't go into the multiple false claims that he repeated many times regarding Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico, but I urge you to Google it. 4) Trump repeated a variety of false claims about his administration's tax bills. He frequently claimed that he "eliminated the estate tax", claiming that this would substantially benefit family farms and small businesses, which was not true. His tax law simply raised the threshold at which the tax was incurred. And even before his law, only 0.15% of estate tax revenue was paid by family farms and small businesses. He also claimed that his tax changes saved people making 75,000 per year saved an average of $2000 in federal tax. In reality the average was about $800, and about 9% of households in that salary range ended up owing MORE in taxes as a result of his tax law changes. 5) "No quid pro quo", "it was a perfect call", and Trump's many other denials that he had pressured top Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, including ousting the appointed US ambassador Marie Yovanavich. This includes a litany of violations of his oath of office and false statements regarding investigations into Burisma, Trump's overseeing of the efforts of Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine, the withholding of millions of dollars in congressionally-designated support funds from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, sharing of classified national security information with Russian diplomats, an attempted cover-up of official conversations with foreign leaders in which Trump attempted to advance corrupt arrangements, and his violation of whistleblower protection policies. This stuff has all been investigated thoroughly at this point (which wasnt hard because a president's actions and statements are almost all documented and archived for the official records), and a highly detailed timeline of events can be found at just security dot org. These are not partisan allegations, they are established, documented facts. And this is just the tip of a very very deep iceberg.
I happened to be sleeping in my car in March 1989, as luck would have it, during the most severe solar storm since The Carrington Event. The light was so bright it woke me up so I could witness the aurora over New Jersey. The reds, blues, and greens were vibrant and lit up the northern and north-western sky. I didn't find out what happened till much later while reading an article about the severity of Quebec's massive blackouts, and how some satellites were disrupted. There was also a space shuttle in orbit at the time that was minimally affected.
if it makes you feel any better, we're also like a hundred thousand years overdue for the magnetic poles to completely shut off for several millennia to allow Earth's magnetic shield to recharge while the magnetic poles reverse polarity.
@@FizzieWebb And at some point now, the supervolcano at Yellowstone is supposed to erupt. I'd rather die by natural disaster than because of say, someone stabbing or shooting me because I insulted them or they were just racist/sexist.
Just a note: the aurora are not _both_ referred to as "Aurora Borealis." AKA "Northern Lights." That's only for the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere's aurora is the Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights." The Aurora Borealis is more famous, but that's largely because it's more accessible. The Australis is mostly only visible in Antarctica and a few places in southernmost Australia or Tasmania.
I was going to comment this info, glad I'm not the only one that knows of the Southern Lights. I'm a fan of Auroras in general, I think it's really cool that other astrological bodies/planets have them as well. Seems kinda obvious that they wouldn't be unique to Earth, but I really want to see how they manifest, if/how they differ in color spectrum than Earth's Aurora events.
@@angelicaapperson950 Sorta make the general lack of progress in spaceflight really frustrating, doesn't it? Sure, we might be able to see it in a picture from a probe, but it's a whole different thing to see it in person.
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The phrase "we're overdue" stopped being scary when I realized just how many things we are "overdue" for. Almost like not every single thing in the universe runs on an atomic clock. We're not overdue, it will happen eventually no matter what, whether that was 2 years after the event or 200.
I prefer to think of it as we've been really really really lucky the past 10,000 years overall. Cause everything will eventually try to kill us but in general we've just been super lucky to be mostly left alone in ways it matters and it's allowed us to thrive as a species. As with all good things they eventually come to an end and will...someday...but not today so yay for today! Lol
Yeah seriously. Since I was the kid, I’ve constantly heard “the world is going to end in 5 years unless something changes!” Well 30 years later nothing has changed yet we are still here and there are still idiots claiming the world will end.
@@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 sorry sir. I know people that have died from covid. I just had to console a co worker, her grandmother, that raised her, just died of covid. Take care
Hey, Fascinating Horror, I know you probably get tons of requests and you probably won't see this, but I'd like to suggest the New London school explosion that happened in Texas. It happened not far from the town I grew up in but barely anyone knows about it, I would love to see you cover it and maybe bring some recognition for the victims?
There''s a book about that, "Gone at 3;17." What a sad and terrible tragedy. It's the reason residential natural gas now has a that foul odor added to it.
Small correction but you can safely say aurora - aurora borealis is northern lights and aurora australis is the southern lights. Just say aurora it refers to the phenomenon as a whole rather than a specific region.
Sadly, I have little hope in a worldwide coordinated response that would result in the best case scenario. It would be an absolute cluster f*** hampered by bickering politicians trying to figure out how they can benefit most from the disaster.
That hardly sets him apart from the last half a dozen or so. (Obama was a different story, I guess). It is a bit of a worry how there's so little pretence, even, that their function has any meaning any more though. I honestly have the feeling that, regardless of all our technological advances (including those which are killing us), the level of corruption and dumbassery today means that we're *less* well-placed to cope with any serious natural disaster than we were 200 years ago. We're probably just going to have to hope that the general instinct for survival is stronger than the 'elite's' instinct for endless avoidance of responsibility and rewarding themselves for failure...
@@Microtherion "Obama was a different story, I guess". I guess you're right. Anyone who can get a Nobel Peace Prize for merely being elected President must be as awesome as he thinks he is.
@@JoseyWales44s Lol. I'm guessing you're a Republican, but actually that's perfectly true. He was in the middle of bombing the crap out of Pakistan - which is a *U.S. ally*. When you can wage open warfare on your own allies, and over 90 per cent of the casualties are civilians, and you still get the Nobel Peace Prize, something's not quite right, is it? (I said he didn't have dementia, and was even quite bright - I certainly didn't say he was doing really good things...)
I lived in Canada's Northwest Territories for a couple of years. I saw the most amazing northern lights while I was up there. I'm still convinced that I could actually hear them hissing on a still night.
I actually saw some sort of Aurora as far south as Alabama some 15-20 years ago, but it was very faint and not large in the sky. #1 on my bucket list is to see the Northern Lights in all their glory with my own eyes one day before I die.
Read the novel "One Second After", a 2009 novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. It's most likely fairly realistic about what would happen with an EMP attack or a Carrington-like Sun event in modern times.
I've read that trilogy twice (One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day). It really made aware of just of fragile our electric system is. It is a great read, although the author seems to lose steam after the first book. That being said, our country is far more prepared for EMP/CME issues than the book would have us believe. I recommend reading some reviews of the book to understand more of that 🙂
Could you imagine failing to prepare for a foreseeable catastrophic event and being kept in the dark for months on end, unaware of its severity until it's too late? Golly I sure hope nothing like that happens to us any time soon 😬
Nearly happened to Texas. We were literally minutes away from a total shutdown for months. Despite being warned years ago. Fascinating Horror, I guess you've got a topic here you can use in the future.
Aurora Borealis is the phenomenon in the north, in the southern hemisphere there's Aurora Australis, they have separate names Collectively they're sometimes called polar lights
@Scumfuck McDoucheface I've only seen them in a movie that took place in coastal Scotland and even then they were pretty incredible. Can only imagine what it must be like to actually see them above you in the sky
2:18 "Many people rose from their beds thinking that dawn had arrived." I assume they very happily went back to bed when they realised they had a few hours left. Bonus!
How many people had household clocks in 1856? Very few. They didn't come about until late in the industrial revolution. Before then, they were hand-made and expensive. All the average person would have known was the sky was lit, as if dawning, and then went dark but no storm. That would have been very worrying, not the trigger for more sleep. Plus their internal clocks biologically would have told them it was wrong.
This comment is so naive. You do realise an event like this today would absolutely cripple the entire world? Everything we rely on today is electronic and digital. This would throw economies into chaos. The entire world would be disconnected. Things like electricity would be out. All to fulfill your self satisfaction of seeing people not use social media. I don't use or like social media myself but I don't want to see the entire planet thrown into chaos. Getting people to socialise in person via the collapse of society is not a great thing to wish for
@@RealLordVoldemortpeople having to face themselves - think, read, meditate, deal with actual issues rather than lather up with more social media entertainment? how dreadful.
It still amazes me how a director like Roland Emmerich, who specialises in doomsday scenarios, still thinks it’s more plausible to scare people with an ancient Mayan calendar or the god damn moon colliding with earth, than a modern day Carrington event; a scenario which is just around the corner, statistically speaking.
Where is the evidence the same happened in 1700? In 1550? In 1400? In 1250? The speculation is too conveniently ominous. No reference or evidence was presented other than "some" estimates. The whole planet seeing aurora at the same time would be present in the annals of many countries from those eras. Where is that evidence?
@@borderlineiq It can be tricky to link up things in the historical record with phenomena like the Carrington event, especially since how strong they are might affect how they are experienced. There are lots of historical records of "something weird happened", but what was the cause? A supervolcano on the other side of the world? A meteorite? Solar flares? Or something totally different? On the scientific side, researchers have been trying to find a reliable kind of physical evidence of Carrington-style events. Based on tree-ring evidence, there probably was one around 775CE, and another around 993CE. But it's hard to tell what level of event would actually be identifiable through this method. And, of course, it's possible for one of these events to happen, but miss the earth (like what happened in July 2012), in which case there would be no records. There's some links under "other evidence" on the wikipedia page, if you're interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
@@jakual339 Thanks. I'm all for investigation, but want anyone speculating to declare the basis rather than present as facts or suppositions. Evidence is evidence, and the observer must conclude or not the cause.
@@borderlineiq writings from Roman and China both have said to see lights and colors in the sky but trying to see if these were from the same time is tough
"We are, by some measures, overdue." It's weird how this seems to be the case with regard to *many* potentially disastrous phenomena, such as the eruption of certain supervolcanoes and the reversal of the magnetic poles. It almost feels like we're being set up for *all* the S to HTF at once. But what a glorious drama that would be.
its overdue but most of these cataclysmic events have a rough "due date" and its usually placed within brackets of one hundred thousand plus years, in which our lifetimes are drops
Finally, someone making a video about the Carrington event. Strange, with the amount of storytelling TH-camrs, no one is talking about the Carrington event even though it was such a bizarre yet beautiful phenomenon.
A huge coronal mass ejection! Cool beans! Yes would reek havoc with all electrical grids and satellites. Now says it would send us to the dark ages because a whole generation has been nursed on internet.
I think this really would just round out everything my generation has had to go through so far. Global pandemic, several global economic collapses, record setting weather and disaster events, let's just go ahead and tack on a decade long vacation into the dark ages. Fantastic.
Because it requires money, and they never want to spend money until tragedy strikes. Look at Texas earlier this year. They were warned years ago and did nothing.
One days' notice?!?! In America, preparation for a Carrington Event would require 10 committee meetings, 200 hours of debates, 4 votes, a filibuster, and the decided-upon solution would be to condemn the sun for it's actions... (and before anyone gets butthurt, I am an American!)
This is far more terrifying than your other videos. With how unprepared the world has been for COVID, it's easy to imagine just how catastrophic the fallout from this would be. Fabulous!
@Ian P. Lol, I love how you state "we're screwed if this happens two days from now" then follow that doom & gloom with "fabulous!" I get the feeling you're an adrenaline junkie.
I can already imagine the extreme barrage of misinformation the media will spread if it happens now. Some of our family members are already deep into conspiracy theories. Please no more.
@@potatooolatke Media won't exist if there is a major solar flare. Electricity grids will be fried and even if they weren't the radiation in the atmosphere would make wireless communication impossible.
This happened again on March 13th, 1989 albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It was however enough to cause major power disruptions in Canada and some other countries closer to the Arctic Circle. During about a 4-5 day period after the Aurora was clearly visible as far south as Florida and Texas. This wasn't on the scale of the Carrington Event but it was an event just the same. Just because the Carrington Event was so bad doesn't mean it's that bad every time it happens. 1989 was proof of that. The 1989 event is also how we came up with that 150 year estimate. The truth is that for a flare to hit us it has to originate from less than .01% of the Sun's surface. What this means is when the sun flares there is less then a 1 in 10,000 chance it will come our way. Also Flares vary greatly in intensity so for that flare to be a Carrington level flare makes it even rarer of an event.
I love the timing of this video - I was just listening to episode 117 of The Magnus Archives when I got a notification for this video. A fantastic combo , if you ask me!
My mother's family settled in West central Wisconsin in the early 1840's. Oral history on that side of the family is there appeared to be two events over the course of several days, one came from the West, the other from the East. One thing is certain. It made a BIG impression on my ancestors.
November 2024. We got a massive solar flare. Here in Minnesota. It was the greatest display of northern lights I've ever seen. I'm 59. Red to Green . Band's moving back n forth. Not just the northern horizon but directly overhead and all horizons. It was extraordinary when it turned Red. Crimson. Beautiful. I live in a very rural part. And there was no moon. Speel binding. Called many people. "Go Outside NOW! Look up! They don't last...and they change dramatically. Awesome.
I saw this also as I live far from city lights and arrive home from work at 2 am every night. I was very tired....but just had to stop and watch until I couldn't stay awake any longer!
You are screwed if you live within reach of a nuclear reactor! With it's computers taken out! There's going to be a lot of countries that are going to be turned into a wasteland! It's one thing to get a country re-started after such an event which is going to be bad enough as it is! But a nuclear disaster clean up is going to take much longer! I could be wrong but I believe that Fukashima is still being cleaned up today! And even after all the so called cleaning, I wouldn't trust raising children on that land as they are the most susceptible to radioactive radiation! Let's just hope that this day never comes!
@@bickyboo7789 Saving what? Your phone or computer? With no network, what good are they? Your refrigerator or heating and AC unit? With no power grid, they useless as well. The list goes on. Hopefully there are safeguards in place on major infrastructure like the power grid or internet networks but things like trucking which distribution networks depend on to get food on the shelves would likely be destroyed.
@@PeterMilanovski when power goes out, control rods will just fall into place dampening the reaction, plus the halls are designed to contain a meltdown
@@kyliepechler If it's bad enough, a flare could erase all the servers where those bank records are stored. No one will have any money since 99% of it exists only digitally.
Electric cars will be useless if they can't recharge. Petrol pumps won't work. Forget computers, for entertainment we can look at the pretty sky instead. Don't expect to buy food because cash registers won't work. Woke people will have to give up being woke because they of all people will be amongst the most helpless and need others for support. Sounds interesting. People who suffer from depression will stop because suddenly the world has become interesting and challenging.
A Carrington-type event fries all electronic/electrical circuits, so as long as airplanes don't need electronics, or gages, or radar, or ground control, they'll be fine. Well, as long as the thousands of miles of wiring in jetliners doesn't short out like telegraph wires, especially near any fuel tanks. Note to self: never fly on a jetliner again.
@@gsdalpha1358 Modern cars are also very dependent on computerized components. If a solar flare hits, drivers will lose control and smash into each other.
@@fattiger6957 We had a control module chip go bad, and the car just shut off without warning. Luckily we were't going fast and were able to stop without power steering. We could still sort of steer but it was like pushing a log through dense mud. Brakes worked, doubt if ABS would - again, lucky we weren't on an interstate. But, yeah, all those drivers with the IQ of a rock would be so busy freaking and trying to restart their cars, they'd just plow into anything in their way.
@Its me or whatever Uh, no. To glide takes flaps, altimeter, air speed, angle of descent, rudder, GPS (terrain advice, highway locations, etc). Assuming you somehow touch down, where's the reverse thrust and braking? Anymore, pilots have little emergency or even real flying experience - the auto-pilot does everything. A passenger jet without electronics is basically a rock.
i hope that poor girl ended up okay- i can only imagine how terrified she mustve been, not only thinking the world would end, having no idea what was going on, but her family sent her away too.
Trouble is, she's not wrong. At all. Our sun is capable of flaring at far higher levels than the Carrington Event. Our magnetic shield has decreased by 25% since 1859. Both north and south magnetic poles are on the move. It WILL be the end of the world as we know it. Power is not coming back, not after a week, not after 10 years, NOT AT ALL. And as someone said above, worst thing is that this is just a normal event in the cycle of or planet.
If it happens today, the world will end for anyone who depends on refrigerators, water pumps (including sewer and fire hydrants), subway systems, computer networks, air conditioning and fans, electric lights ...
Well then again, a solar storm is much more severe and overdramaticized than a winter storm, so it’s probably the opposite. It’s like how the existential threat of nuclear weapons has prompted the longest period of peace in human history.
@@georgesracingcar7701 except for the Korean war, Cuba, Vietnam, and then Afghanistan, and those were wars just involving the Soviets, and America. There's at least 4x the amount of wars during this time, especially in Africa and the middle east
As an electrical engineer, I've always found this event fascinating. I've studied most aspects of it. I can say you've done your homework on the event and it's effects. Everything you said, I can back up. Well done!
Since you seem to know a thing or two about electricity i'd like to know how exactly this would affect a little hobby solar installation like it have it. Panels, solar mttp and normal sealed lead acid batteries. Would it like fry the charge controller because it has ICs? Because i think the panels and batteries are too "stupid"/simple to just stop working.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 honestly? The best protection is steel reinforced concrete. If properly setup the steel bars ground the incoming energy and stop it from getting inside the building. It's the same principle as a faraday cage. It's a useful side benefit to using metal buildings in some cases.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I think your main concern would be voltage spikes caused by failures in the power grid. You're shielded from direct radiation effects (the main concern in space) by the atmosphere and you're isolated from magnetically induced DC currents (the main concern down on the ground) by your local distribution transformer. Beware however of phone lines and other wired distribution systems that are not DC-isolated.
Putting electricals off line won't stop a Carrington event from destroying it. The Carrington event that was a solar flare is highly electrical and will destroy just about anything with electronic parts inside connected or not! The only way you might have a chance of saving anything is in a Faraday cage.
That's not how statistics work; basically we have a 1/160 chance to get one per year. The odds of an event occuring are not affected by how long it has been since the last one.
@@koffinkat666 It happens approximately once every 160 years, but that doesn't mean that we're "owed" it happening if it doesn't for 160 years. It's essentially gambler's fallacy, where a gambler thinks that because they've lost a bunch of times in a row that they're more likely to win because they're "owed" a win.
In fact we had a Carrington-level event as recently as 2012...thankfully, it missed striking the Earth by something like only 9 or 10 days due to the positions of the Earth and the part of the Sun that sent out a coronal mass ejection...now THAT is pretty damn close and it makes me wonder how many near misses we have
@@sonar357yup. Also if you look at what happened that year and year before!? Eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami all around the globe. Hundreds of thousands dead through natural disasters .. Nostradamus, Edgar Cacey more recently foreseen such disasters! Which is actually incredible.
I really like this channel, because it doesn't focus on just grisly crime and all that kind of stuff. It's very educational it's really interesting, keep up the good work!
Great story! I wonder if we experienced the Carrington effect last month? For a few nights, the Aurora was visible in the US much further south than ever happens-the lights were glorious in California down to about the latitude of Los Angeles if you were lucky enough to be in a place without lights or many lights.
That's what I was thinking! Idk if it was quite as severe though? Our wifi was wonky for a day or so but it wasn't much. (Happens all the time for us anyways.) But it was super awesome to see the red skies in Georgia! It wasn't very visible to the naked eye, but it was still noticeable. And if you took a pic on your phone, it was absolutely magnificent, just so many shades of mostly pink and purple and red.
Comet strike, supernova, quasar, mass extinction pandemic, super-volcano. Just a few more things to add to the list that can murder humanity at a minute's notice.
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Where I live in montana, sometimes The Lights come out to a crazy degree. I've seen it where the light show was covering the entire visible hemisphere of the sky. Often times they dance, almost looking like a ghost fire in the sky.
Can you imagine an event on that scale happening today? With our lives being impossible without electricity, we'll probably be sent right back to the stone age.
There was actually a flare roughly equal to the Carrington event back in December of 2012 (Mayan non-apocalypse timeframe). Good news, it missed us by one week. If it had erupted one week earlier it would’ve hit earth. (Cue spooky music)
“Good lord what is happening out there?” “Aurora Borealis.” “Aurora Borealis? At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, located all around the world?” “Yes.” “May I see it?”
Why don’t you leave it to scientists to decide what the priorities are, of which we can have more than one. Not to mention many of the statements made here are just simply incorrect, it’s not a science dedicated channel, it’s a horror channel.
@@SilveniumTheDrifter Scientists have been screaming from rooftops about the things we actually need to be better prepared for, it’s just that money rules everything and the space related work and research is underfunded. It’s not that we aren’t willing to be more proactive, it’s...WHERES THE MONEY??? Being prepared ain’t free.
@@DarkAngel71180 Why don't YOU stop being a narcissist, scientists actually know VERY LITTLE compared to the grand scheme of things. Only a fool would trust those in academia......Truth, it matters ! You ARE incorrect as well......see how it feels to be talked don too Karen. Now you'll fire back with an lol or name calling or just more mindless ramblings.
we got 4 dipoles currently. They all slidin' roun' like a contact lens on an eyeball. Give Aurora Australis some space. She will calm down in a century or so!
How is it that I'm a few weeks from my 51st birthday and never heard about this event until now? I've taken astronomy courses in college as well as half a dozen science courses in middle and high school, and have watched so many videos about other 'space' phenomena like eclipses and auroras. This event was witnessed worldwide. And while it happened eight years before the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder, my favorite author from childhood, her father never mentioned it in the stories he loved to tell about his youth (and which were a big part of Wilder's series about her own youth). Given the era, no wonder people feared it was a sign of the End Times.
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Funny I get this in my recommended videos, because Anton Petrov just did a video on the fact we just experienced a Carrington Event. Guess we aren't overdue anymore! Good video!
Living in northern Canada 🇨🇦 and having experienced the Northern Lights, I can see how without context they could be foreboding. In fact they are simply amazing and truly breathtaking! Even our skies on snowy nights can be illuminating, it makes the trade off of living where we dip down to -50° at times in the winter, worthwhile!
It is very widely known in the prepping and Ham radio community. Generally people just think you're talking nonsense as a conspiracy theorists if you mention it and don't spend 2 minutes to look it up and confirm it is a real thing. IMHO
The Carrington event happened at the dawn of the electronic revolution, so the effect was only on the telegraph. Today, virtually everything has some electronic components,and the results will be devastating for the world.
Caveman: time to ug hunting…. greeks: Titans and gods fighting. Christians: let there be light! Aztecs: time to start sacrificing! Egyptians: aliens! 😂
Given what’s happened in 2021 so far I wouldn’t be surprised to see more bad things like this happen in the world this year. 2021 so far seems to be a continuation of 2020.
Imagine if that scary force shut down the electricity and internet for years. All we might have for entertainment would be the memory of that short week when the sky lit up funnily.
If our electricity was shut down for years most people would be dead from a lack of food and water or from being murdered to get food and water. Our existence on this planet depends on electricity and without it we die
Not all would die, here in Europe we could handle it, decentralized electricity and no transformators needed, all systems at 220 V apart from that we have individual privat solar solutions sponsored by governments, take care and get secure
@FenNick lol, that & staring at one another, or just sitting and listening to toads. "Wow, I remember when there was nothing to watch on the tee vee but reruns, and everybody would bitch & moan.. now there really is nil on the idiot box.. the only ones I hear bitchin' & moanin' now are toads & crickets."
Considering a major solar flare is an apocalyptic event for our modern, technology driven, society, I think people will have more to worry about than looking at the pretty lights in the sky.
I am currently living in Tulsa, Oklahoma and have been affected by a power outage that some estimates are giving about a week for the duration at longest. This video instantly came to my mind. Everyone is losing their shit at the prospect. We still have running water, but I don't think we would if we had one of these go down and didn't prepare properly. Imagine that, will ya?
Thanks for doing this! I've been fascinated and horrified by the Carrington event for years. We almost did have a repeat event in July 2012 but were saved by just a few days. It was big news at the time but everyone has gone back to complacency. If you thought coronavirus caused panic, just imagine what a worst case scenario would do.
Wait, so you say we could either take quick and preventive action, bite the bullet and get a (very) rough week OR we can not take action and end up suffering years and years from a major catastrophe ? * looks at covid outbreak * It means we're fucked, innit ?
Yes. And we will have mobs of people burning down power plants three weeks in, because they think it's a conspiracy and so they can have another meltdown a month later, because there is still no electricity.
@@rgarito considering thats what happened when they tried upgrading the cell towers with 5g. I'd say less than a wk. Tho maybe no internet will make iy harder for the nuts.
Exvept the lockdowns for covid caused far more long term damage than if we just weathered the disease normally. Covid went from "flatten the curve, it'll be over by the summer" to perpetual, never ending lockdowns.
I wish I’d come across this channel way sooner as it gives me minutes to look forward to every day. No bs, no click bait, no drama, just fascinating disturbing stories.
I love how the problem of the birds being ''TOO LOUD'' was solved by blasting those fools with a full blown hand cannon. That's not loud or anything. Humans are an odd species.
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Me: Oh wow a rare Fascinating Horror vid where no one dies
Fascinating Horror: So this pissed Rail conductor shoots 3 birds dead
Me: Ahhh there it is
and we are all going to return to stone age when it happens again.
@@lek0mania more like the dark ages...
In the Stone age we would been nicer to each other.
@@NearlyH3adlessNick
So being nice to each other is the nature of humans - and killing each other came with civilization?
You might want to rethink that, mate.
@@peka__ Nah, sorry I wasn't clear, I just meant war then was a lot less total destruction scorched earth kinda mentality.
Killing has been in our blood probably since we dropped the gills, hatred for one another because of physical, cultural and religious differences is a little newer.
They were happy as a lark until they weren’t.
I did a research project on solar flares, more specifically The Carrington Event when I was in grade 8 and no one thought it had actually happened! People (including science fair judges & teachers) thought it was just an urban myth, despite the weeks of research I had done and evidence I presented. I am so happy that you have made a video about this, because if something were to occur like this today it would be bad news - that's probably an understatement.
But at least you could say 'I told you so' to those teachers and judges!!
With all the science deniers we have today, Doomsday cults would spring up everywhere!
Yes I had teachers like that. Months of research and a green tick without mostly even a comment good or bad.
@@kevo3341 would the person be able? Or be seen as some psychic who “predicted” an event and want to know what’s gonna happen next?
I never heard of it, and I’ve been around for a long time.
It is incredible the amount of electricity that was just sort of bouncing around in the atmosphere. The idea of turning something’s power supply off and it just running off what it was conducting from the air is really incredible even if it is kind of terrifying to imagine this happening now
It doesn't bounce. It was a massive stream of charged particles hitting the Earth. Any long piece of wire will act as an antenna and pick up a current induced by the changing magnetic field of such a large current. The bigger the wire, the more it picks up. So telegraph lines, which span hundreds of miles, are able to pick up a very substantial current for as long as those charged particles keep coming.
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I've had dreams and written stories about an aurora that lit and powered the world... I was a wee lass when I had those dreams and wrote those stories, and had no idea about the Carrington Event, nor did I understand anything about auroras or the activities of the sun. So... I'm just excited that the thing that I thought was just some subconscious and fantastical thing actually happened.
@@JustBadGrammarwow that is incredible! Seriously! I wonder what exactly is your connection to this event, because to me it does sounds like you are connected to this event somehow, maybe you’re related to someone who witnessed it, is 8-28 your bday, or the area where you were living at the time of the dream stood witness to this event? Soo cool
@@mariecolette170 Just pretty little dreams and stories. Fanciful coincidence.
As an Australian who in the last year who has experienced 1 in 100 year droughts, fires, floods, mouse plague, and pandemic, I am now expecting this in the next few days.
Mouse plague?
Ask the Universe/Nature for a Rain-check! (couldn't resist)!😉 x
@@luvondarox You don't wanna know. Mice have exploded, literally blanketing entire swaths of civilization. They chew people and animals up alive, and can destroy anything in their path. Mice and rats are the worst creatures on the planet, and in large numbers, they can cause widespread devastation.
Don't forget the locust swarm
It seems to be a year for it !
Fun fact: We came extremely close to experiencing a Carrington Level Event in 2012. There was a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on July 23, 2012. It missed the Earth by roughly nine days.
Let's hope that's the one that was due for this century, thanks
For something that is so big, the Earth sure does survive a lot of close calls (e.g. the Shoemaker-Levy comet).
I remember that!
I remember this! Everyone was so freaked out at the thought, but I was 14 so I didn’t understand the severity. Now I’m sat here after seeing my country’s reaction to a pandemic and I’m shitting myself at the thought of another carrington event haha
@@crispylith9558 it would have been, yeah
Man, the list of "not if but when" events I have to worry about just keeps growing.
nice pfp
It is what it is
At least we can take a pandemic off the list
Ignorance is bliss.
@@jsteinman tbf a worse one is also not an if but a when.
I just referenced this video last week to my brother who had never heard of the Carrington Event. Low and behind I’m back again after this weekend’s solar storm. So cool.
Yeah, the current solar storm brought me here.
I don't think there are any channels where I can say that I've watched every single video. With the exception of Fascinating Horror, of course, which continues to put out compelling and interesting content.
I’ve procrastinated on watching a few and every time I end up watching them I ask myself what took me so long
I woke up at 5am and saw he uploaded and wanted to watch it right then. But my partner would not have enjoyed it as much as me 😂
Agreed. This is the only channel I’ve literally seen every video and eagerly await the new ones.
@@gradeabutt I am still on my way with Fascinating Horror. But at the moment I feel same about Lemmino and BarelySociable :D
Well watch them now before we lose power.
If anyone finds themselves anxious about the overdue Carrington storm, an event of this size happened in 2012 and missed the earth by 9 days. It could still happen again, but "the big one" isn't necessarily due any day. It made me feel better, I hope it helps you if you need it.
exactly! ive been telling ppl 2012 was a near miss when we talk ab apocalypse scenarios. its surprising not many ppl know. If it happens only a week or so earlier, we'd have quite a huge set back
How did it miss the earth by 9 days?
I don’t understand what you mean that. Could you please explain it to me? Thank you
Maybe that was what the Mayan calendar was predicting lol
@@prepperjonpnw6482 the spot of the storm on the sun barely rotated away from earth. if it happens earlier when it wasn't rotated, we wouldve been hit
Yeah ...go look at the sun right now and our 21% diminished magnetic field strength.... problem is today, ALL your " smart " devices WILL catch fire, and we are more due for a charlamagne event... following many Carrington events ,go look at SOHO...then tell me by the way if you haven't noticed this week we got direct shots from CMEs ..3 of them
“While the event caused some disruption, it was far from deadly”
*I bet those birds disagree*
I could believe that he killed one bird, but I doubt the other two would have stuck around after the first shot.
These? 🖕🖕🖕
All they had to do was STFU lol
@@Sashazur shotguns. or whatever guns were used in the 1850s- they would be definitely able to kill a few birds that are close to eachother.
Yeah, they’re sure singing a different tune now.
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@@Justin.Martyr alright then.
@@Justin.Martyr paranoid nut.
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Math not meth
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I think most of us missed the real amazing part of this story. Anyone that can can be half awake and shoot three birds with a pistol is super human.
😂 I'd be lucky to hit side of a bus 3x
@@briankimmel1149 ... while sitting in it!
Wouldn't the other 2 have flown off? Or did they keep coming back wondering what that noise was? 🤣
And American. You know our passion for expressing our anger with guns. Not the smartest thing to do.
@@boa1793 you do realize this was in the 1800's and not yesterday right? It was common for most families to own a firearm back then.
When I was 16 we flew over the North Pole and got a great view of the northern lights. It was an incredible experience, but I knew what it was. I can only imagine if that showed up for a week over my small Georgia town in the 1800s. No doubt a lot of Bible reading cramming for finals.
"cramming for finals" omg
well said
It didn't affect the electronics of the plane?
finals 😆😆
Bs. Commercial flights dont go over the north pole
An event that affected the entire planet. Now THATS fascinating horror.
Especially in a time where technology was still underdeveloped and we couldn't communicate worldwide!
An event that can end the planet now as well.
@@miked7212 Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks for the nightmare fuel Mike. 😂
@@bunnyluver2176 yeah lol try telling that to the US Republicans though. They're the ones mainly that don't want to do ANYTHING about it. Just look at the way US Republicans act because of global warming. They don't care about global warming. They only care about profit at the expense of global warming.
@@miked7212 no such thing as global warming. Its the season's of earth. Won't be the first time nor the last that we got an ice age or whatever happens this time around. Its just how earth evolves over time and it is what it is.
We humans really are so arrogant to think this planet needs us and that "climate change"/"global warming"/ whatever, is a bad thing (it is for us tho lol) . Besides this shouldn't be politically charged it should be non-partisan. If u want to say repubs are ignoring this tgen democRATS want to move us into a communism and think the green new deal is actually possible and not a terrible stupid idea . None of this even matters anyway , has nothing to do with our planets weather . U think we in America are so bad huh ? It's funny cuz we are so low on the scale we got nothing even close to the pollution that China , by itself puts out . Ijs
Seeing how this pandemic has been handled, I don’t feel good about a Carrington level event happening at all.
Trump would call it a hoax. And when it was clear its not a hoax, his minions would claim he never said that.
@@tindaloxxii6513 - exactly - because politics has nothing to do with how the world runs and how major threats and crises are handled.
PS. I'm guessing you made your overly sensitive comment because you realised you bet on the wrong horse but can't quite look yourself in the eye and admit you you were conned - so the natural response is to get defensive.
I want to tell you that it's ok - you were sick of liars - we all were - so you rolled the dice on a bullshitter.
Perfectly natural
Even though it nearly ended up destroying the country
@@5ynthesizerpatel Who ended up almost destroying the country? It was the governors with the endless lock downs that are reeking havoc on the economy. It was congress that passed the idiotic stimulus bills. Yes I know that Trump signed 2 out of the 3 bills. It was Joe that signed that last and least necessary bill with so much pork in it and had little to do with covid. Only 10% of the last bill had anything to do with covid. Lastly blame the American people demanding the stupid bills. We are at fault for tearing down our economy. There is no such thing as free money.
Lastly, if Trump lied so much, name 5 big lies he made. I do not want to hear opinions he had like covid would disappear by April, that is an opinion. I also do not want to hear about puffery he said. I want big real lies. The press and the dems lied like hell. Russia gate, Covington kids and more.
@Ronald 240Bravo thank god. Imagine if we did have a minor event with Trump. He would call it a hoax.
@@TheLittlered1961 There are so, so many to choose from, but here is a random assortment of the first that come to mind:
1) Trump repeatedly took credit for the Veterans Choice program. He touted this "accomplishment" countless times during his 2020 campaigning, going so far as saying that the then-deceased Vietnam vet John McCain failed to get the bill passed, and that Trump himself succeeded at passing it. In reality, John McCain was the key Republican Senator behind the Veterans Choice bill, which passed in 2014 and was signed into law by Obama.
2) Trump claimed countless times that he had a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) and that he would always protect people with pre-existing conditions. In reality, his administration advanced a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court that specifically argued that the ACA's protection for people with pre-existing conditions was unconstitutional and should be voided. In his entire four year term, he never once produced even an inkling of a healthcare plan to replace that protection.
3) Trump incorrectly claimed that Alabama was was likely to be hit by Hurricane Dorian, when the state had already bern ruled out of all forecast predictions. NOAA had to issue a public statement advising panicked residents of Alabama that they were, in fact, not in danger. This would have been an innocent mistake (albeit the kind a President should never make), had he admitted his error and corrected himself. Instead he doubled down on his false claim, hosting a national press event where he presented a printed NOAA forecast map that had been modified with a Sharpie to show Alabama inside the forecast path. This sort of tampering with and presentation of falsified weather forecast documents is a crime, and he committed it in front of a national audience. Trump then ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction from NOAA for their public statement that had corrected his original false claim. After this political pressure, NOAA did publish an unsigned letter in support of Trumps claim, which directly contradicted their original statement. This prompted an outcry from meteorologists and multiple formal investigations by NWS which found that two NOAA administrators had twice violated the organization's scientific integrity policy by issuing the retraction statement. I won't go into the multiple false claims that he repeated many times regarding Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico, but I urge you to Google it.
4) Trump repeated a variety of false claims about his administration's tax bills. He frequently claimed that he "eliminated the estate tax", claiming that this would substantially benefit family farms and small businesses, which was not true. His tax law simply raised the threshold at which the tax was incurred. And even before his law, only 0.15% of estate tax revenue was paid by family farms and small businesses. He also claimed that his tax changes saved people making 75,000 per year saved an average of $2000 in federal tax. In reality the average was about $800, and about 9% of households in that salary range ended up owing MORE in taxes as a result of his tax law changes.
5) "No quid pro quo", "it was a perfect call", and Trump's many other denials that he had pressured top Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, including ousting the appointed US ambassador Marie Yovanavich. This includes a litany of violations of his oath of office and false statements regarding investigations into Burisma, Trump's overseeing of the efforts of Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine, the withholding of millions of dollars in congressionally-designated support funds from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, sharing of classified national security information with Russian diplomats, an attempted cover-up of official conversations with foreign leaders in which Trump attempted to advance corrupt arrangements, and his violation of whistleblower protection policies. This stuff has all been investigated thoroughly at this point (which wasnt hard because a president's actions and statements are almost all documented and archived for the official records), and a highly detailed timeline of events can be found at just security dot org. These are not partisan allegations, they are established, documented facts.
And this is just the tip of a very very deep iceberg.
I happened to be sleeping in my car in March 1989, as luck would have it, during the most severe solar storm since The Carrington Event. The light was so bright it woke me up so I could witness the aurora over New Jersey. The reds, blues, and greens were vibrant and lit up the northern and north-western sky. I didn't find out what happened till much later while reading an article about the severity of Quebec's massive blackouts, and how some satellites were disrupted. There was also a space shuttle in orbit at the time that was minimally affected.
satellites are fakery as is the space shuttle, pure nasa bullshit
I remember that! I was in Vermont. It was amazing!
Lies
@@keikei3301 ???
Same in California, yes it was awesome
"Seymour! The world is on fire!"
"No mother, it's just the northern lights!"
nice your comments are right next to each other.
"Well Seymour you're an odd fellow but I must say: you steam a good ham"
Is your kitchen on fire
It's an aroraborialis
At this time of day?
I remember that. It was, after all, an unforgettable luncheon.
"We are... overdue."
Oooh, no, I don't like that. .-.
"In a worst case scenario where we fail to prepare..."
Oooh, okay so this is what's going to REALLY happen
if it makes you feel any better, we're also like a hundred thousand years overdue for the magnetic poles to completely shut off for several millennia to allow Earth's magnetic shield to recharge while the magnetic poles reverse polarity.
@@FizzieWebb And at some point now, the supervolcano at Yellowstone is supposed to erupt. I'd rather die by natural disaster than because of say, someone stabbing or shooting me because I insulted them or they were just racist/sexist.
Aren't we also overdue for the next mass extinction/already at the beginning of it?
@@greenapple9477 Also, aren't we also overdue for a large asteroid?
Just a note: the aurora are not _both_ referred to as "Aurora Borealis." AKA "Northern Lights." That's only for the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere's aurora is the Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights." The Aurora Borealis is more famous, but that's largely because it's more accessible. The Australis is mostly only visible in Antarctica and a few places in southernmost Australia or Tasmania.
Educational and informative
I was going to comment this info, glad I'm not the only one that knows of the Southern Lights. I'm a fan of Auroras in general, I think it's really cool that other astrological bodies/planets have them as well. Seems kinda obvious that they wouldn't be unique to Earth, but I really want to see how they manifest, if/how they differ in color spectrum than Earth's Aurora events.
@@angelicaapperson950 Sorta make the general lack of progress in spaceflight really frustrating, doesn't it? Sure, we might be able to see it in a picture from a probe, but it's a whole different thing to see it in person.
@@nightrunnerxm393 I agree, pictures from probes just don't do them justice.
@@fahey5719 Really? Huh. Cool.
I just found your video now. THANK U !! 🙏🌅❤️✝️🛐❤
I have been suffering with chronic headaches and fatigue. I just came out of ICU on the 29th of June (spent 6 days). My BP and the wild pains I had that week were unbearable.
And right now, this morning, I woke up to that very same feeling the week of June 29.
None of my pain relievers are helping now. Might have to return to the hospital. I hope not.
I am relaxing now. And will plug my ears but not before watching this video again and sending it out to everyone.
God bless you and your family.
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“Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?”
“Yes.”
Aurora of the Boreal valley
May I see it?
@@bishopkat127 No
"Located entirely in your kitchen?
Time of year won't matter but location sure will.
The phrase "we're overdue" stopped being scary when I realized just how many things we are "overdue" for. Almost like not every single thing in the universe runs on an atomic clock. We're not overdue, it will happen eventually no matter what, whether that was 2 years after the event or 200.
I prefer to think of it as we've been really really really lucky the past 10,000 years overall. Cause everything will eventually try to kill us but in general we've just been super lucky to be mostly left alone in ways it matters and it's allowed us to thrive as a species. As with all good things they eventually come to an end and will...someday...but not today so yay for today! Lol
I just tell people that if they eat carrots 🥕 they will die
Nothing we can do about it
@@HeritageWealthPlanning lol
also, wasn't there one that happened 2012? (it just missed us by 9 days apparently)
Yeah seriously. Since I was the kid, I’ve constantly heard “the world is going to end in 5 years unless something changes!” Well 30 years later nothing has changed yet we are still here and there are still idiots claiming the world will end.
I haven’t had anything major to induce catastrophic anxiety levels in my life recently so thank you for this
HONEY! A POLE SHIFT IS COMING! DO SOME RESEARCH!
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What about the pandemic?
@@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 tell that to india
@@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 sorry sir. I know people that have died from covid. I just had to console a co worker, her grandmother, that raised her, just died of covid.
Take care
I love that a random guy who had an inexplicable obsession with staring at the sun cracked the code.
Hardly random, he had an observatory in his house!
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 still, without recording, what are the chances of him witnessing it?
Almost like a cool story, like with the masons
All great discoveries are either divinely inspired or revealed.
Think Newton and the famous apple.
An old British eccentric and discovering things from their shed, there isn't a more iconic duo.
RIP to the three birds that lost their lives to this phenomenon.
Yeah back when firing a gun in your neighborhood to kill birds and waking up your neighbors with gunfire was normal.
@@Wildstar40 It's still normal today. Just go to Texas.
The jerk that killed the birds is dead now.🤗🤗🤗
Right? :( unnecessary!!!
If he actually shot them with a pistol he's better than robinhood
Hey, Fascinating Horror, I know you probably get tons of requests and you probably won't see this, but I'd like to suggest the New London school explosion that happened in Texas. It happened not far from the town I grew up in but barely anyone knows about it, I would love to see you cover it and maybe bring some recognition for the victims?
I'm from connecticut, never heard of it but I would like to see it covered. So important to remember the victims, hope he considers doing it!
if you really want him to see this send him an email instead
Yeah, send him an email. He will get back to you. It’s in the description
There''s a book about that, "Gone at 3;17." What a sad and terrible tragedy. It's the reason residential natural gas now has a that foul odor added to it.
check out the Bath Michigan Schoolhouse disaster
Small correction but you can safely say aurora - aurora borealis is northern lights and aurora australis is the southern lights.
Just say aurora it refers to the phenomenon as a whole rather than a specific region.
Yes we experience aurora borealis here in Canada.
_Aurora Polaris_ encompasses them both, as per my nicely ignored comment!
No one cares hedon🙄
The northern lights shining brightly tonight brought me back to this video
It's not done yet, there are more massive sun spots spitting out X-class flares coming in the next month or so.
Sadly, I have little hope in a worldwide coordinated response that would result in the best case scenario. It would be an absolute cluster f*** hampered by bickering politicians trying to figure out how they can benefit most from the disaster.
Don't expect much help from the US. Their President can barely tie his own shoe laces.
That hardly sets him apart from the last half a dozen or so. (Obama was a different story, I guess). It is a bit of a worry how there's so little pretence, even, that their function has any meaning any more though. I honestly have the feeling that, regardless of all our technological advances (including those which are killing us), the level of corruption and dumbassery today means that we're *less* well-placed to cope with any serious natural disaster than we were 200 years ago. We're probably just going to have to hope that the general instinct for survival is stronger than the 'elite's' instinct for endless avoidance of responsibility and rewarding themselves for failure...
Sounds familiar.
@@Microtherion "Obama was a different story, I guess". I guess you're right. Anyone who can get a Nobel Peace Prize for merely being elected President must be as awesome as he thinks he is.
@@JoseyWales44s Lol. I'm guessing you're a Republican, but actually that's perfectly true. He was in the middle of bombing the crap out of Pakistan - which is a *U.S. ally*. When you can wage open warfare on your own allies, and over 90 per cent of the casualties are civilians, and you still get the Nobel Peace Prize, something's not quite right, is it? (I said he didn't have dementia, and was even quite bright - I certainly didn't say he was doing really good things...)
when I lived in Alaska, seeing the Aurora everytime is just as beautiful as the first. truly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. truly magical.
It's definitely on my bucket list
Imagine being able to see it in South Carolina! In Alaska it would be all around you
@@crazytrain7114 i'm in central kentucky. if conditions are right and you know when and where to look, you can see them here -- being up high helps.
I lived in Canada's Northwest Territories for a couple of years. I saw the most amazing northern lights while I was up there. I'm still convinced that I could actually hear them hissing on a still night.
I actually saw some sort of Aurora as far south as Alabama some 15-20 years ago, but it was very faint and not large in the sky. #1 on my bucket list is to see the Northern Lights in all their glory with my own eyes one day before I die.
When I left my house this morning I couldn't help but feel like I was missing something and now I know what it was, my existential dread
If it helps, there are places that regularly monitor this kind of activity, known as "space weather". You can even find forecasts with a quick search.
Yep we are one failing magnetosphere away from cooking everything off this planet.
Don’t leave home without it.
I think I found yours.
Read the novel "One Second After", a 2009 novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. It's most likely fairly realistic about what would happen with an EMP attack or a Carrington-like Sun event in modern times.
I've read that trilogy twice (One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day). It really made aware of just of fragile our electric system is. It is a great read, although the author seems to lose steam after the first book.
That being said, our country is far more prepared for EMP/CME issues than the book would have us believe. I recommend reading some reviews of the book to understand more of that 🙂
theres a good film also called 22 after.
Such a good series 😍😍🤙
Could you imagine failing to prepare for a foreseeable catastrophic event and being kept in the dark for months on end, unaware of its severity until it's too late? Golly I sure hope nothing like that happens to us any time soon 😬
The Texas Arctic Storm, "Hold my drink."
Nearly happened to Texas. We were literally minutes away from a total shutdown for months. Despite being warned years ago.
Fascinating Horror, I guess you've got a topic here you can use in the future.
Heh.
Aurora Borealis is the phenomenon in the north, in the southern hemisphere there's Aurora Australis, they have separate names
Collectively they're sometimes called polar lights
@Scumfuck McDoucheface it's still early days for this video so maybe others will comment
From Australia, we've always given them the nickname "southern Aroura ". We even named one of our luxury express trains "The Southern Aroura".
@Scumfuck McDoucheface the Northern Lights are always part of Canadian holiday packages.
Well damn didn’t know that thank you for informing 😅
@Scumfuck McDoucheface I've only seen them in a movie that took place in coastal Scotland and even then they were pretty incredible. Can only imagine what it must be like to actually see them above you in the sky
2:18 "Many people rose from their beds thinking that dawn had arrived." I assume they very happily went back to bed when they realised they had a few hours left. Bonus!
How many people had household clocks in 1856? Very few. They didn't come about until late in the industrial revolution. Before then, they were hand-made and expensive. All the average person would have known was the sky was lit, as if dawning, and then went dark but no storm. That would have been very worrying, not the trigger for more sleep. Plus their internal clocks biologically would have told them it was wrong.
@@borderlineiq yup.
having social media shut down for a little while would be a blessing for humanity.
We just went through another Carrington level event, unfortunately social media still worked.
@@zadekharbatdon’t be so sure about that.
@@Shadowkey392 im not
This comment is so naive. You do realise an event like this today would absolutely cripple the entire world? Everything we rely on today is electronic and digital. This would throw economies into chaos. The entire world would be disconnected. Things like electricity would be out. All to fulfill your self satisfaction of seeing people not use social media. I don't use or like social media myself but I don't want to see the entire planet thrown into chaos. Getting people to socialise in person via the collapse of society is not a great thing to wish for
@@RealLordVoldemortpeople having to face themselves - think, read, meditate, deal with actual issues rather than lather up with more social media entertainment? how dreadful.
The train driver shooting 3 birds cause they 'kept him up at night' is the most American thing I've ever heard
And don't you forget it.
Yes, we’re problem solvers.
It's how hillbillies solve problems
@@LouBloom21655 wow, you managed to throw in a slur there huh? Your ignorance is showing, you might want to tuck that back in...
@@LouBloom21655 aint that the truth
It still amazes me how a director like Roland Emmerich, who specialises in doomsday scenarios, still thinks it’s more plausible to scare people with an ancient Mayan calendar or the god damn moon colliding with earth, than a modern day Carrington event; a scenario which is just around the corner, statistically speaking.
Where is the evidence the same happened in 1700? In 1550? In 1400? In 1250? The speculation is too conveniently ominous. No reference or evidence was presented other than "some" estimates. The whole planet seeing aurora at the same time would be present in the annals of many countries from those eras. Where is that evidence?
The moon is supposed to "wobble" in the 2030s so expect massive tide disruption then.
@@borderlineiq It can be tricky to link up things in the historical record with phenomena like the Carrington event, especially since how strong they are might affect how they are experienced. There are lots of historical records of "something weird happened", but what was the cause? A supervolcano on the other side of the world? A meteorite? Solar flares? Or something totally different?
On the scientific side, researchers have been trying to find a reliable kind of physical evidence of Carrington-style events. Based on tree-ring evidence, there probably was one around 775CE, and another around 993CE. But it's hard to tell what level of event would actually be identifiable through this method. And, of course, it's possible for one of these events to happen, but miss the earth (like what happened in July 2012), in which case there would be no records.
There's some links under "other evidence" on the wikipedia page, if you're interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
@@jakual339 Thanks. I'm all for investigation, but want anyone speculating to declare the basis rather than present as facts or suppositions. Evidence is evidence, and the observer must conclude or not the cause.
@@borderlineiq writings from Roman and China both have said to see lights and colors in the sky but trying to see if these were from the same time is tough
"We are, by some measures, overdue."
It's weird how this seems to be the case with regard to *many* potentially disastrous phenomena, such as the eruption of certain supervolcanoes and the reversal of the magnetic poles. It almost feels like we're being set up for *all* the S to HTF at once. But what a glorious drama that would be.
its overdue but most of these cataclysmic events have a rough "due date" and its usually placed within brackets of one hundred thousand plus years, in which our lifetimes are drops
it's all fear mongering, overdue means sometime in the next 10,000 years, and these events are exaggerated
@@AverageAlien not really tho
You have to keep in mind that scientists think in centuries and eons, and not weeks/months/years/decades.
@@fruub depends what kind of scientist 😜
That sentence... "We are, by some measures, overdue" gave me CHILLS more than any other video I've seen in years. Great video! Love all your videos.
Me rents overdue
We just had a smaller level event in early 2023
Finally, someone making a video about the Carrington event. Strange, with the amount of storytelling TH-camrs, no one is talking about the Carrington event even though it was such a bizarre yet beautiful phenomenon.
There's a ton of videos about it, but I'm also more on the science side of TH-cam.
@@gamemeister27 : TH-cam has a science side,Brian?...I thought it was just all bullsh!t.🤔
A huge coronal mass ejection! Cool beans! Yes would reek havoc with all electrical grids and satellites. Now says it would send us to the dark ages because a whole generation has been nursed on internet.
@@robdykejr Science is a liar sometimes. I'm looking forward to a person who gets this. They're my kinda people!
There are however, numerous channels speaking of the mudflood that seemed to reset the end of the 19th century,,,, ^^
Wasn’t expecting this to be the most terrifying video yet, but here we are
I think this really would just round out everything my generation has had to go through so far. Global pandemic, several global economic collapses, record setting weather and disaster events, let's just go ahead and tack on a decade long vacation into the dark ages. Fantastic.
Covid was nothing
Birds: [tweet]
"So anyways, I started blastin'..."
Some guy: "... and I took that personally."
LMAO
Fascinating horror: We are due for this potentially apocalyptic event to occur
TH-cam comments:
"With preparation we can avoid the worst."
*Looks back at what happened last year*
"...We'd be deeply screwed."
Because it requires money, and they never want to spend money until tragedy strikes. Look at Texas earlier this year. They were warned years ago and did nothing.
I'm actually listening to an audiobook right now that is about a fictitious similar event in the modern world.
@@j.d.e.7416 would you like to share the title?
@@YuumiGamer1243, it's called 'After Sundown' and was written by Linda Howard.
One days' notice?!?! In America, preparation for a Carrington Event would require 10 committee meetings, 200 hours of debates, 4 votes, a filibuster, and the decided-upon solution would be to condemn the sun for it's actions... (and before anyone gets butthurt, I am an American!)
This is far more terrifying than your other videos. With how unprepared the world has been for COVID, it's easy to imagine just how catastrophic the fallout from this would be. Fabulous!
@Ian P. Lol, I love how you state "we're screwed if this happens two days from now" then follow that doom & gloom with "fabulous!"
I get the feeling you're an adrenaline junkie.
I can already imagine the extreme barrage of misinformation the media will spread if it happens now. Some of our family members are already deep into conspiracy theories. Please no more.
@@potatooolatke Media won't exist if there is a major solar flare. Electricity grids will be fried and even if they weren't the radiation in the atmosphere would make wireless communication impossible.
We were perfectly prepared for Covid-19. It's called our immune systems. Human intervention for nefarious purposes is the problem.
@fattiger6957 that would be a nice break lol
This happened again on March 13th, 1989 albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It was however enough to cause major power disruptions in Canada and some other countries closer to the Arctic Circle. During about a 4-5 day period after the Aurora was clearly visible as far south as Florida and Texas. This wasn't on the scale of the Carrington Event but it was an event just the same. Just because the Carrington Event was so bad doesn't mean it's that bad every time it happens. 1989 was proof of that.
The 1989 event is also how we came up with that 150 year estimate. The truth is that for a flare to hit us it has to originate from less than .01% of the Sun's surface. What this means is when the sun flares there is less then a 1 in 10,000 chance it will come our way. Also Flares vary greatly in intensity so for that flare to be a Carrington level flare makes it even rarer of an event.
I love the timing of this video - I was just listening to episode 117 of The Magnus Archives when I got a notification for this video. A fantastic combo , if you ask me!
didn't expect to see you here! love your art btw!
Oh yeah, well I won’t ask you! 😂🤣🤣🤣❤️
Time to look up what this is. I need more interesting TH-cam videos
@@ziziflor9019 haha same! You should tell me what episodes you recommend one you do and I'll do the same!
I hope you enjoy season 4 and 5! It is a great show
My mother's family settled in West central Wisconsin in the early 1840's. Oral history on that side of the family is there appeared to be two events over the course of several days, one came from the West, the other from the East. One thing is certain. It made a BIG impression on my ancestors.
Please tell us more. this is interesting
Heard of the mudfloods?
@@bobbynuttbutter9554 Mudfloods of Wisconsin?
Wisconsin you say?
Sips tea intrigued.
Ah'ha, please go on.
This event was clearly the inspiration for The Long Dark.
Oooh, nice catch!
That’s a good title for a black porn actor.
Good game. Dying for multiplayer tho
@@TheDizzleHawke 🤣
@@bellakatherman1477
November 2024. We got a massive solar flare. Here in Minnesota. It was the greatest display of northern lights I've ever seen. I'm 59. Red to Green . Band's moving back n forth. Not just the northern horizon but directly overhead and all horizons. It was extraordinary when it turned Red. Crimson. Beautiful. I live in a very rural part. And there was no moon. Speel binding. Called many people. "Go Outside NOW! Look up! They don't last...and they change dramatically. Awesome.
I saw this also as I live far from city lights and arrive home from work at 2 am every night. I was very tired....but just had to stop and watch until I couldn't stay awake any longer!
"a swift, well coordinated response" so we're screwed, is what you're saying.
Faraday cages are pretty useful for saving electronics.
You are screwed if you live within reach of a nuclear reactor! With it's computers taken out! There's going to be a lot of countries that are going to be turned into a wasteland!
It's one thing to get a country re-started after such an event which is going to be bad enough as it is! But a nuclear disaster clean up is going to take much longer! I could be wrong but I believe that Fukashima is still being cleaned up today! And even after all the so called cleaning, I wouldn't trust raising children on that land as they are the most susceptible to radioactive radiation!
Let's just hope that this day never comes!
@@bickyboo7789 Saving what? Your phone or computer? With no network, what good are they? Your refrigerator or heating and AC unit? With no power grid, they useless as well. The list goes on. Hopefully there are safeguards in place on major infrastructure like the power grid or internet networks but things like trucking which distribution networks depend on to get food on the shelves would likely be destroyed.
@@bickyboo7789 Got one big enough for a car?
@@PeterMilanovski when power goes out, control rods will just fall into place dampening the reaction, plus the halls are designed to contain a meltdown
A solar event that breaks the wifi is a much more terrifying proposition than almost everything else you’ve ever covered
That and everyone losing the ability to get access to their money in their bank account, all at the same time.
People will be losing their sanity.
@@kyliepechler If it's bad enough, a flare could erase all the servers where those bank records are stored. No one will have any money since 99% of it exists only digitally.
@@fattiger6957 oh, that is scary
Electric cars will be useless if they can't recharge. Petrol pumps won't work. Forget computers, for entertainment we can look at the pretty sky instead. Don't expect to buy food because cash registers won't work. Woke people will have to give up being woke because they of all people will be amongst the most helpless and need others for support. Sounds interesting. People who suffer from depression will stop because suddenly the world has become interesting and challenging.
@@SigrunHT What an interesting plcture you paint, by the way you forgot about cannibalism, plenty of food about eh !.
Loving that you are getting all these sponsors now bro- well deserved 🙂
Poor birds rest in peace all they were trying to do was let us know that something was happening!
😂
that was rather depressing wasn’t it..😢
"Airplanes will be grounded..."
Let's hope before the event, and not directly from the sky. 😬
A Carrington-type event fries all electronic/electrical circuits, so as long as airplanes don't need electronics, or gages, or radar, or ground control, they'll be fine. Well, as long as the thousands of miles of wiring in jetliners doesn't short out like telegraph wires, especially near any fuel tanks. Note to self: never fly on a jetliner again.
@@gsdalpha1358 Modern cars are also very dependent on computerized components. If a solar flare hits, drivers will lose control and smash into each other.
@@fattiger6957 We had a control module chip go bad, and the car just shut off without warning. Luckily we were't going fast and were able to stop without power steering. We could still sort of steer but it was like pushing a log through dense mud. Brakes worked, doubt if ABS would - again, lucky we weren't on an interstate. But, yeah, all those drivers with the IQ of a rock would be so busy freaking and trying to restart their cars, they'd just plow into anything in their way.
@@fattiger6957 At least a car is ALREADY on the ground...
@Its me or whatever Uh, no. To glide takes flaps, altimeter, air speed, angle of descent, rudder, GPS (terrain advice, highway locations, etc). Assuming you somehow touch down, where's the reverse thrust and braking? Anymore, pilots have little emergency or even real flying experience - the auto-pilot does everything. A passenger jet without electronics is basically a rock.
i hope that poor girl ended up okay- i can only imagine how terrified she mustve been, not only thinking the world would end, having no idea what was going on, but her family sent her away too.
Trouble is, she's not wrong. At all. Our sun is capable of flaring at far higher levels than the Carrington Event. Our magnetic shield has decreased by 25% since 1859. Both north and south magnetic poles are on the move. It WILL be the end of the world as we know it. Power is not coming back, not after a week, not after 10 years, NOT AT ALL. And as someone said above, worst thing is that this is just a normal event in the cycle of or planet.
Dude she also got agitated
If it happens today, the world will end for anyone who depends on refrigerators, water pumps (including sewer and fire hydrants), subway systems, computer networks, air conditioning and fans, electric lights ...
@@codetech5598 I’d go crazy,
In some ways she wasn't wrong. It might not have been the end of THE world, but it was certainly the end of her's
Texas grid couldn't even deal with a well predicted cold spell so I'd say if one of these happens any time soon we're screwed.
Well then again, a solar storm is much more severe and overdramaticized than a winter storm, so it’s probably the opposite. It’s like how the existential threat of nuclear weapons has prompted the longest period of peace in human history.
Damn 💀💀💀
@@georgesracingcar7701 except for the Korean war, Cuba, Vietnam, and then Afghanistan, and those were wars just involving the Soviets, and America. There's at least 4x the amount of wars during this time, especially in Africa and the middle east
It actually can and does every summer, they just didn’t prepare. They didn’t heed the warnings.
Texas can't recover from anything. If a transgender person were to proudly walk down the street, the entire fabric of Texas society would unravel.
"We are, by some measures, overdue". Love the spooky energy!
Thank you so much for introducing me to The Magnus Archives! It was an incredible listen and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes horror.
As an electrical engineer, I've always found this event fascinating. I've studied most aspects of it. I can say you've done your homework on the event and it's effects. Everything you said, I can back up. Well done!
Since you seem to know a thing or two about electricity i'd like to know how exactly this would affect a little hobby solar installation like it have it. Panels, solar mttp and normal sealed lead acid batteries. Would it like fry the charge controller because it has ICs? Because i think the panels and batteries are too "stupid"/simple to just stop working.
I accept your challenge - when exactly did the term “carrington Event” become well known?
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 honestly? The best protection is steel reinforced concrete. If properly setup the steel bars ground the incoming energy and stop it from getting inside the building. It's the same principle as a faraday cage. It's a useful side benefit to using metal buildings in some cases.
Isn't the induced voltages & currents on all the power lines going to melt everything even with the power plants offline?
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I think your main concern would be voltage spikes caused by failures in the power grid. You're shielded from direct radiation effects (the main concern in space) by the atmosphere and you're isolated from magnetically induced DC currents (the main concern down on the ground) by your local distribution transformer. Beware however of phone lines and other wired distribution systems that are not DC-isolated.
"Seymour! The Apocalypse is starting!"
"No Mother, it's just the Northern Lights."
nice your comments are right next to each other.
“Yes that’s what I mean”
Putting electricals off line won't stop a Carrington event from destroying it. The Carrington event that was a solar flare is highly electrical and will destroy just about anything with electronic parts inside connected or not! The only way you might have a chance of saving anything is in a Faraday cage.
FH: "An event like this happens every 150 years"
Me: 😲
FH: "At the time of recording it has been 160 since the last"
Me: 😨😱
Well we got very close to a Carrington event in 2012, we just got lucky as it just missed Earth.
That's not how statistics work; basically we have a 1/160 chance to get one per year. The odds of an event occuring are not affected by how long it has been since the last one.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ But isn't that a mathematical deduction based on Scientific truths?
@@koffinkat666 It happens approximately once every 160 years, but that doesn't mean that we're "owed" it happening if it doesn't for 160 years. It's essentially gambler's fallacy, where a gambler thinks that because they've lost a bunch of times in a row that they're more likely to win because they're "owed" a win.
Everybody Gangsta until 10:40.
In fact we had a Carrington-level event as recently as 2012...thankfully, it missed striking the Earth by something like only 9 or 10 days due to the positions of the Earth and the part of the Sun that sent out a coronal mass ejection...now THAT is pretty damn close and it makes me wonder how many near misses we have
Many more than we have hits. Space is big and earth is a small target.
Yup. The Mayans were almost proven right
Also, one right before World War 2 started. It was either in '38 or '39
@@sonar357yup. Also if you look at what happened that year and year before!?
Eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami all around the globe. Hundreds of thousands dead through natural disasters ..
Nostradamus, Edgar Cacey more recently foreseen such disasters!
Which is actually incredible.
With our weakening magnetosphere we will see more and more of this...recently Musk lost a few birds.
I really like this channel, because it doesn't focus on just grisly crime and all that kind of stuff. It's very educational it's really interesting, keep up the good work!
Great story! I wonder if we experienced the Carrington effect last month? For a few nights, the Aurora was visible in the US much further south than ever happens-the lights were glorious in California down to about the latitude of Los Angeles if you were lucky enough to be in a place without lights or many lights.
That's what I was thinking! Idk if it was quite as severe though? Our wifi was wonky for a day or so but it wasn't much. (Happens all the time for us anyways.) But it was super awesome to see the red skies in Georgia! It wasn't very visible to the naked eye, but it was still noticeable. And if you took a pic on your phone, it was absolutely magnificent, just so many shades of mostly pink and purple and red.
No way, I didn't realize the Magnus Archives ever sponsored anything! Awesome. Says a lot about the quality of your content, I think. Good stuff.
'We are...overdue' -- *sighs, adds ANOTHER thing to worry about onto my huge overflowing pile of things to worry about*
Comet strike, supernova, quasar, mass extinction pandemic, super-volcano. Just a few more things to add to the list that can murder humanity at a minute's notice.
@@fattiger6957 You'll just have to live with it...or not !
Nina! Sister ☆ Why worry over things You cannot control? :) Remember all the beautiful moments in your life. Remember the feeling? The frequency? Go there. Breathe. You Know Thyself. Fear truly is "unreal"..
Just like time (manmade, remember that!)
Love You. Go within. All the answers are awaiting you. The past year, with the big plandemic.. is showing us all, that we're constantly being lied to (this video - the event, experienced by every being within our earth - not questioning that) Sooo many inconsistencies.
Do research, your own (that helped me big time step out of fear)
Realise how history is just that, his-story.
Remember we never know the truth of a battle/war, we only hear the victors story.
Just like now.
Question everything.
Truth is subjective.
I mean you no harm, just had a feeling to respond to your particular comment.
May you be feeling alright today, and wherever you are in this spectacular universe being human, be happy - you're Alive! Beautiful.
Much love, strength and protection surrounds you.
Peace, andria in australia
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also another fascinating story, thank you!
Where I live in montana, sometimes The Lights come out to a crazy degree. I've seen it where the light show was covering the entire visible hemisphere of the sky. Often times they dance, almost looking like a ghost fire in the sky.
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When you thought 2021 couldn’t get any worse and a carrington event takes place
I've been to seven different countries across three continents in the last twelve months... _oh noooo so apocalyptic_ 🙄
@@ao1778 a milion of ppl die
The media: literally the end of the world
@@comq01 at least it's easier to spot the braindead sheep these days 👍🏻
@@ao1778 the pandemic is bad don't underestimate it.
And then betelgeuse explodes
Can you imagine an event on that scale happening today? With our lives being impossible without electricity, we'll probably be sent right back to the stone age.
One missed us by nine days in 2012.
I’m sure it’s being monitored and we’d have time to prepare but you never know
Dr Stone?
That would certainly accelerate the great reset. On the other hand, we would lose Twitter
@@fredsilva8076 I see that as a absolute win
There was actually a flare roughly equal to the Carrington event back in December of 2012 (Mayan non-apocalypse timeframe). Good news, it missed us by one week. If it had erupted one week earlier it would’ve hit earth. (Cue spooky music)
There are many horror-themed channels out there, but this one leaves me feeling W O R R I E D every time like no other channel can.
Is it just me or does anyone else thumbs up the video before even watching? Knowing it will be quality & never once been disappointed....
I'm literally wearing a Magnus Archives t-shirt as I watch this. I could not recommend it more, and I'm sad it's over.
If the video is sponsored by The Magnus Archives, you KNOW it’s going to be good
“Good lord what is happening out there?”
“Aurora Borealis.”
“Aurora Borealis? At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, located all around the world?”
“Yes.”
“May I see it?”
No.
You steam a good ham.
Quality hamposting.
Pfft
Preparing for another event like this should be a much higher priority than a manned Mars mission. It WILL happen.
Humans? Being proactive? Ha ha, funny joke.
Why don’t you leave it to scientists to decide what the priorities are, of which we can have more than one. Not to mention many of the statements made here are just simply incorrect, it’s not a science dedicated channel, it’s a horror channel.
@@SilveniumTheDrifter Scientists have been screaming from rooftops about the things we actually need to be better prepared for, it’s just that money rules everything and the space related work and research is underfunded. It’s not that we aren’t willing to be more proactive, it’s...WHERES THE MONEY??? Being prepared ain’t free.
@@DarkAngel71180 Why don't YOU stop being a narcissist, scientists actually know VERY LITTLE compared to the grand scheme of things. Only a fool would trust those in academia......Truth, it matters ! You ARE incorrect as well......see how it feels to be talked don too Karen. Now you'll fire back with an lol or name calling or just more mindless ramblings.
@@DarkAngel71180 Money AND narcissists , they rule everything. You'd make an excellent sadistic ruler. Best wishes now.
"Aurora borealis becomes visible at *the poles*"
Aurora australis: "Am I a joke to you?"
No, Aurora Australis, you're the polar opposite of funny.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto I disagree, we are poles apart on this subject.
You two need to sit facing 180 degrees from each other.
we got 4 dipoles currently. They all slidin' roun' like a contact lens on an eyeball. Give Aurora Australis some space. She will calm down in a century or so!
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto nnnnnn;n;nnnn;;
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How is it that I'm a few weeks from my 51st birthday and never heard about this event until now? I've taken astronomy courses in college as well as half a dozen science courses in middle and high school, and have watched so many videos about other 'space' phenomena like eclipses and auroras. This event was witnessed worldwide. And while it happened eight years before the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder, my favorite author from childhood, her father never mentioned it in the stories he loved to tell about his youth (and which were a big part of Wilder's series about her own youth). Given the era, no wonder people feared it was a sign of the End Times.
I just wanna say that this video got a very well curated sponsorship. Thanks to The Magnus Archives for sponsoring you, because that way I get ti know them. Amazing channel and amazing podcast.
I haven't listened to it yet, but I wonder if the laundry files have had a little influence on its inception.
When an horror channel actually gives you useful advice and imprortant warning for real scenario
Keep up the good work
This is the good news story that we need after the year we’ve had 😂
...until the end. D:
Funny I get this in my recommended videos, because Anton Petrov just did a video on the fact we just experienced a Carrington Event. Guess we aren't overdue anymore! Good video!
No we didn't. The Sun did, but it was in the opposite direction from us. Maybe learn to pay attention.
I wasn’t expecting to see a Magnus archives sponsor. I absolutely love that podcast
Living in northern Canada 🇨🇦 and having experienced the Northern Lights, I can see how without context they could be foreboding. In fact they are simply amazing and truly breathtaking!
Even our skies on snowy nights can be illuminating, it makes the trade off of living where we dip down to -50° at times in the winter, worthwhile!
Why isn't this event more widely known? It must have been a once in a lifetime experience for millions of people.
It was a once in a lifetime for some nations.
It is very widely known in the prepping and Ham radio community. Generally people just think you're talking nonsense as a conspiracy theorists if you mention it and don't spend 2 minutes to look it up and confirm it is a real thing. IMHO
One missed us in 2012 by nine days
The Carrington event happened at the dawn of the electronic revolution, so the effect was only on the telegraph.
Today, virtually everything has some electronic components,and the results will be devastating for the world.
Is this not widely known? I learned about it as a child, but maybe I'm a weirdo.
It’s fascinating how different a Carrington event affects humanity at different points of history.
pre-electricity is was just a pretty show that at worst disturbed some people's sleep but now it would be total societal collapse.
Caveman: time to ug hunting…. greeks: Titans and gods fighting. Christians: let there be light! Aztecs: time to start sacrificing! Egyptians: aliens! 😂
Now a Carrington Event is gonna happen this week, just what 2021 needs >:|
REALLY
What date? April 1st?
Hah could you imagine oml the hysteria that would ensue
Given what’s happened in 2021 so far I wouldn’t be surprised to see more bad things like this happen in the world this year. 2021 so far seems to be a continuation of 2020.
@@blazeflamestrike just because of the pandemic lol anything else is just what has been happening for longer than many of us have been alive
Imagine if that scary force shut down the electricity and internet for years. All we might have for entertainment would be the memory of that short week when the sky lit up funnily.
If our electricity was shut down for years most people would be dead from a lack of food and water or from being murdered to get food and water. Our existence on this planet depends on electricity and without it we die
Not all would die, here in Europe we could handle it, decentralized electricity and no transformators needed, all systems at 220 V apart from that we have individual privat solar solutions sponsored by governments, take care and get secure
@FenNick lol, that & staring at one another, or just sitting and listening to toads.
"Wow, I remember when there was nothing to watch on the tee vee but reruns, and everybody would bitch & moan.. now there really is nil on the idiot box.. the only ones I hear bitchin' & moanin' now are toads & crickets."
Considering a major solar flare is an apocalyptic event for our modern, technology driven, society, I think people will have more to worry about than looking at the pretty lights in the sky.
First half of video: A nice story where no one gets harmed for once. 😊
Second half: I'm scared more than I've ever been. 😰
oh yeah... we are royally screwed the next time it happens
I am currently living in Tulsa, Oklahoma and have been affected by a power outage that some estimates are giving about a week for the duration at longest.
This video instantly came to my mind. Everyone is losing their shit at the prospect. We still have running water, but I don't think we would if we had one of these go down and didn't prepare properly.
Imagine that, will ya?
Thanks for doing this! I've been fascinated and horrified by the Carrington event for years. We almost did have a repeat event in July 2012 but were saved by just a few days. It was big news at the time but everyone has gone back to complacency. If you thought coronavirus caused panic, just imagine what a worst case scenario would do.
Wait, so you say we could either take quick and preventive action, bite the bullet and get a (very) rough week OR we can not take action and end up suffering years and years from a major catastrophe ?
* looks at covid outbreak *
It means we're fucked, innit ?
Yes. And we will have mobs of people burning down power plants three weeks in, because they think it's a conspiracy and so they can have another meltdown a month later, because there is still no electricity.
@@creativedesignation7880 You sound like you've seen this before... ;)
Start building your farady cages before you can't get aluminum.
@@rgarito considering thats what happened when they tried upgrading the cell towers with 5g. I'd say less than a wk. Tho maybe no internet will make iy harder for the nuts.
Exvept the lockdowns for covid caused far more long term damage than if we just weathered the disease normally. Covid went from "flatten the curve, it'll be over by the summer" to perpetual, never ending lockdowns.
Sponsored by The Magnus Archives? Deadass? That podcast is amazing, I had no idea they were sponsoring things :o
I wish I’d come across this channel way sooner as it gives me minutes to look forward to every day. No bs, no click bait, no drama, just fascinating disturbing stories.
I love how the problem of the birds being ''TOO LOUD'' was solved by blasting those fools with a full blown hand cannon. That's not loud or anything. Humans are an odd species.
The key difference is that the gunshots are only loud when you want them to be
Yeah it was loud for a second but then it would be followed by silence, where had he not done that they would just be continuous loud noise
It's not about the noise, it's about sending a message
Humans are irrational, foolish and dangerous...
Odd, Selfish and Mean