The Carrington Event | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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  • @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838
    @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4123

    “While the event caused some disruption, it was far from deadly”
    *I bet those birds disagree*

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      I could believe that he killed one bird, but I doubt the other two would have stuck around after the first shot.

    • @jarrodbarker5050
      @jarrodbarker5050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      These? 🖕🖕🖕

    • @cavemanlovesmoke4394
      @cavemanlovesmoke4394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      All they had to do was STFU lol

    • @medjeds
      @medjeds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@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.

    • @jonp3890
      @jonp3890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Yeah, they’re sure singing a different tune now.

  • @GeneralDisarray666
    @GeneralDisarray666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4053

    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

    • @lek0mania
      @lek0mania 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      and we are all going to return to stone age when it happens again.

    • @NearlyH3adlessNick
      @NearlyH3adlessNick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@lek0mania more like the dark ages...
      In the Stone age we would been nicer to each other.

    • @peka__
      @peka__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@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.

    • @NearlyH3adlessNick
      @NearlyH3adlessNick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@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.

    • @laserfist1201
      @laserfist1201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      They were happy as a lark until they weren’t.

  • @nobody-vo7ei
    @nobody-vo7ei 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    having social media shut down for a little while would be a blessing for humanity.

    • @zadekharbat
      @zadekharbat 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      We just went through another Carrington level event, unfortunately social media still worked.

  • @jhoags92
    @jhoags92 ปีที่แล้ว +528

    I love that a random guy who had an inexplicable obsession with staring at the sun cracked the code.

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hardly random, he had an observatory in his house!

    • @scheve332
      @scheve332 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@golden.lights.twinkle2329 still, without recording, what are the chances of him witnessing it?

    • @thecatrooms
      @thecatrooms ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Almost like a cool story, like with the masons

    • @KeillaSellay
      @KeillaSellay ปีที่แล้ว +7

      All great discoveries are either divinely inspired or revealed.
      Think Newton and the famous apple.

    • @GameDevMikey
      @GameDevMikey ปีที่แล้ว +13

      An old British eccentric and discovering things from their shed, there isn't a more iconic duo.

  • @KyrosTheWolf
    @KyrosTheWolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4682

    The train driver shooting 3 birds cause they 'kept him up at night' is the most American thing I've ever heard

    • @BourbonInhibitions
      @BourbonInhibitions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      And don't you forget it.

    • @cathyl7944
      @cathyl7944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      Yes, we’re problem solvers.

    • @LouBloom21655
      @LouBloom21655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      It's how hillbillies solve problems

    • @Lady.B0420
      @Lady.B0420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@LouBloom21655 wow, you managed to throw in a slur there huh? Your ignorance is showing, you might want to tuck that back in...

    • @ryanakatrainlover
      @ryanakatrainlover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@LouBloom21655 aint that the truth

  • @Black-Swan-007
    @Black-Swan-007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +746

    "We are... overdue."
    Oooh, no, I don't like that. .-.

    • @ddddoc7078
      @ddddoc7078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      "In a worst case scenario where we fail to prepare..."
      Oooh, okay so this is what's going to REALLY happen

    • @FizzieWebb
      @FizzieWebb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      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.

    • @greenapple9477
      @greenapple9477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@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.

    • @dangerjoe8911
      @dangerjoe8911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Aren't we also overdue for the next mass extinction/already at the beginning of it?

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@greenapple9477 Also, aren't we also overdue for a large asteroid?

  • @TheMarychinoCherry
    @TheMarychinoCherry 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    The northern lights shining brightly tonight brought me back to this video

    • @PissedChihuahua
      @PissedChihuahua 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's not done yet, there are more massive sun spots spitting out X-class flares coming in the next month or so.

  • @dennishill676
    @dennishill676 ปีที่แล้ว +1063

    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.

    • @briankimmel1149
      @briankimmel1149 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      😂 I'd be lucky to hit side of a bus 3x

    • @Rottidog68
      @Rottidog68 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@briankimmel1149 ... while sitting in it!

    • @phattjohnson
      @phattjohnson ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Wouldn't the other 2 have flown off? Or did they keep coming back wondering what that noise was? 🤣

    • @boa1793
      @boa1793 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And American. You know our passion for expressing our anger with guns. Not the smartest thing to do.

    • @zackhenderson2392
      @zackhenderson2392 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@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.

  • @FatCherub007
    @FatCherub007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4489

    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
      @luvondarox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Mouse plague?

    • @annapercy6002
      @annapercy6002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Ask the Universe/Nature for a Rain-check! (couldn't resist)!😉 x

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      @@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.

    • @absolarix
      @absolarix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Don't forget the locust swarm

    • @MunoMuno2010
      @MunoMuno2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It seems to be a year for it !

  • @motherofvermin
    @motherofvermin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2198

    Man, the list of "not if but when" events I have to worry about just keeps growing.

    • @madeliner1682
      @madeliner1682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      nice pfp

    • @samgafford2371
      @samgafford2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      It is what it is

    • @jsteinman
      @jsteinman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      At least we can take a pandemic off the list

    • @janew2108
      @janew2108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Ignorance is bliss.

    • @SoulDevoured
      @SoulDevoured 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@jsteinman tbf a worse one is also not an if but a when.

  • @chrisackerley1842
    @chrisackerley1842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    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.

  • @franklind.roosevelt7416
    @franklind.roosevelt7416 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    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

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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.

    • @domsquaaa4323
      @domsquaaa4323 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      .

  • @hopiepink
    @hopiepink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    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.

    • @kevo3341
      @kevo3341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      But at least you could say 'I told you so' to those teachers and judges!!

    • @healinggrounds19
      @healinggrounds19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      With all the science deniers we have today, Doomsday cults would spring up everywhere!

    • @rodpettet2819
      @rodpettet2819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes I had teachers like that. Months of research and a green tick without mostly even a comment good or bad.

    • @whitedragoness23
      @whitedragoness23 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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?

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I never heard of it, and I’ve been around for a long time.

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    @PeteTheWargamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4295

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      @davidcermak9822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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      @yuvgotubekidding 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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  • @pedrowhack-a-mole6786
    @pedrowhack-a-mole6786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    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.

    • @billb7876
      @billb7876 ปีที่แล้ว

      satellites are fakery as is the space shuttle, pure nasa bullshit

    • @angelicaveitch8526
      @angelicaveitch8526 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I remember that! I was in Vermont. It was amazing!

    • @keikei3301
      @keikei3301 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lies

    • @pedrowhack-a-mole6786
      @pedrowhack-a-mole6786 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@keikei3301 ???

    • @mushumokomodo
      @mushumokomodo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same in California, yes it was awesome

  • @paulgee4336
    @paulgee4336 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    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.

    • @honuswagner9348
      @honuswagner9348 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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 🙂

    • @Q5Grafx
      @Q5Grafx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      theres a good film also called 22 after.

    • @SevenLimes
      @SevenLimes 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Such a good series 😍😍🤙

  • @DaedalusYoung
    @DaedalusYoung 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1386

    "Seymour! The world is on fire!"
    "No mother, it's just the northern lights!"

    • @toast1672
      @toast1672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      nice your comments are right next to each other.

    • @nolongerusing7430
      @nolongerusing7430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      "Well Seymour you're an odd fellow but I must say: you steam a good ham"

    • @yongyea4147
      @yongyea4147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Is your kitchen on fire
      It's an aroraborialis

    • @yongyea4147
      @yongyea4147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      At this time of day?

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I remember that. It was, after all, an unforgettable luncheon.

  • @kazza6078
    @kazza6078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1518

    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.

    • @CamelliaCorn
      @CamelliaCorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      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

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      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

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Maybe that was what the Mayan calendar was predicting lol

    • @CamelliaCorn
      @CamelliaCorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@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

    • @mjolnirswrath23
      @mjolnirswrath23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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

  • @emilyhoward6538
    @emilyhoward6538 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    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.

    • @MrClubfoot90
      @MrClubfoot90 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah, the current solar storm brought me here.

  • @tombstonechess2231
    @tombstonechess2231 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    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.

    • @AS-qg1xu
      @AS-qg1xu หลายเดือนก่อน

      Covid was nothing

  • @celinesantoro791
    @celinesantoro791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2886

    An event that affected the entire planet. Now THATS fascinating horror.

    • @SummerAlleriaWindrunner
      @SummerAlleriaWindrunner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Especially in a time where technology was still underdeveloped and we couldn't communicate worldwide!

    • @miked7212
      @miked7212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      An event that can end the planet now as well.

    • @bunnyluver2176
      @bunnyluver2176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@miked7212 Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks for the nightmare fuel Mike. 😂

    • @miked7212
      @miked7212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@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.

    • @cavemanlovesmoke4394
      @cavemanlovesmoke4394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@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

  • @LisaBowers
    @LisaBowers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1710

    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.

    • @crispylith9558
      @crispylith9558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +282

      Let's hope that's the one that was due for this century, thanks

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      For something that is so big, the Earth sure does survive a lot of close calls (e.g. the Shoemaker-Levy comet).

    • @FailingArtist
      @FailingArtist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I remember that!

    • @StephanieSpielberg
      @StephanieSpielberg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      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

    • @obZenism
      @obZenism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@crispylith9558 it would have been, yeah

  • @Lady_A.R.Browne
    @Lady_A.R.Browne 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.
    🙏🌅❤️✝️🛐

  • @brett4264
    @brett4264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    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!

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @HeritageWealthPlanning
      @HeritageWealthPlanning ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I accept your challenge - when exactly did the term “carrington Event” become well known?

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

    • @williamhutchinson8818
      @williamhutchinson8818 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Isn't the induced voltages & currents on all the power lines going to melt everything even with the power plants offline?

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@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.

  • @Me16768
    @Me16768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +306

    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.

    • @Whatlander
      @Whatlander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      "cramming for finals" omg

    • @senorpepper3405
      @senorpepper3405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      well said

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It didn't affect the electronics of the plane?

    • @Survivor-mf1nm
      @Survivor-mf1nm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      finals 😆😆

    • @alexr3430
      @alexr3430 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bs. Commercial flights dont go over the north pole

  • @chefbonecrusher7980
    @chefbonecrusher7980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    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.

    • @dellahicks7231
      @dellahicks7231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we experience aurora borealis here in Canada.

    • @anhedonianepiphany5588
      @anhedonianepiphany5588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      _Aurora Polaris_ encompasses them both, as per my nicely ignored comment!

  • @Brenelael
    @Brenelael 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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.

  • @annieeames2282
    @annieeames2282 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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.

    • @OfficialJuke
      @OfficialJuke ปีที่แล้ว

      Me rents overdue

    • @NineEyeRon
      @NineEyeRon ปีที่แล้ว

      We just had a smaller level event in early 2023

  • @plshelpalistair
    @plshelpalistair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +646

    “Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?”
    “Yes.”

    • @GeekRaj
      @GeekRaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Aurora of the Boreal valley

    • @bishopkat127
      @bishopkat127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      May I see it?

    • @snowfallkin
      @snowfallkin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@bishopkat127 No

    • @maxrockatanksyOG
      @maxrockatanksyOG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      "Located entirely in your kitchen?

    • @dieselscience
      @dieselscience 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Time of year won't matter but location sure will.

  • @Japhet_
    @Japhet_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +607

    RIP to the three birds that lost their lives to this phenomenon.

    • @Wildstar40
      @Wildstar40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah back when firing a gun in your neighborhood to kill birds and waking up your neighbors with gunfire was normal.

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@Wildstar40 It's still normal today. Just go to Texas.

    • @ghostcityshelton9378
      @ghostcityshelton9378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The jerk that killed the birds is dead now.🤗🤗🤗

    • @rubym9107
      @rubym9107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Right? :( unnecessary!!!

    • @1three7
      @1three7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If he actually shot them with a pistol he's better than robinhood

  • @airmanfair
    @airmanfair 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "We are, by some measures, overdue". Love the spooky energy!

  • @dalelerette206
    @dalelerette206 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Many have not made the connection yet. But technology has advanced significantly since 1859. On August 28, 1859, telegraph lines went down across America. Literal fire poured from circuits in Pittsburgh. In Washington, D.C., an operator named Frederick W. Royce was severely shocked. Papers caught fire. On Aug. 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam saw something unexpected. More than two dozen sea mines suddenly-and without apparent explanation-exploding in the water. Can you imagine how this will affect the technology of today? We're not as prepared for this as we should be...

    • @CL-lo3xr
      @CL-lo3xr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What if it sets off the nuclear bombs across the globe.

    • @dalelerette206
      @dalelerette206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CL-lo3xr I suspect this will happen all across Asia and Russia. When they ask for help trying to recover we will need to be merciful.

    • @dalelerette206
      @dalelerette206 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CL-lo3xr This happened before: 1405 B.C. - Blackhole sun from from Soundgarden - 1994 - th-cam.com/video/3mbBbFH9fAg/w-d-xo.html - th-cam.com/video/o6pBTfIjJ68/w-d-xo.html

    • @emmanuelmathews1718
      @emmanuelmathews1718 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      id be more worried about the urban firestorms from electrical short circuits and ruptured gas lines. The issue of fire will be very immediate, especially in cities based on those historical accounts@@CL-lo3xr

    • @dalelerette206
      @dalelerette206 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CL-lo3xr If there have been repeated CME's, their will be a 'clearance' of space dust allowing a rapid fire CME to take 1/2 half hour to reach us. The means the CME would be coming at the Earth at 1/3rd the speed of light. Whichever side is facing the impact could potentially suffer a major technological failure along the spectrums of all DIGITAL economic structures.

  • @stormqueen29
    @stormqueen29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1583

    Kind of reminds me of the total eclipse that happened in 2017. I was outside at the time, and when totality happened, everything just got weirdly quiet except for the people. Birds went still. Insects fell silent. Even barking dogs went quiet. It was as if a blanket had dropped over everything, muted and stilled everything. It was really bizarre. And for the few minutes of totality, everything was "different" somehow. As the sun came back, things were slow to return to "normal". If I didn't know it was a natural phenomena, it would have been terrifying. As it was, it still gave me goosebumps.

    • @WhiteWolfBlackStar
      @WhiteWolfBlackStar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Thankfully I found a website that said what to look for, so as much as I loved the gray sunlight, I saw the 3D snakes everywhere and took 100 pics of this weird half moon repeated everywhere across everything
      Some weird sun shadows.
      I had a blast! Sadly I did not think to put my eclipse specs on my phone, so I got the same weird beam sideways across the sun everybody else got.
      Otherwise it totally rocked!

    • @gladitsnotme
      @gladitsnotme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I bought a lotto ticket during the eclipse, I thought for sure it was auspicious. I did win, but only $8 lol

    • @WhiteWolfBlackStar
      @WhiteWolfBlackStar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gladitsnotme That's cool. You walked away with more than you started with. No need to get crazy. Lots of people walk away with FAR LESS.. and not always THEIR FUNDS!
      Oregon has a horrible gambling issue with those machines. They're everywhere.

    • @bakeman9697
      @bakeman9697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember that

    • @internetpolification
      @internetpolification 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Phenomenon

  • @cal2686
    @cal2686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    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?

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      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!

    • @Emil-nm2qf
      @Emil-nm2qf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      if you really want him to see this send him an email instead

    • @melissamarsh2219
      @melissamarsh2219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yeah, send him an email. He will get back to you. It’s in the description

    • @tillitsdone
      @tillitsdone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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.

    • @gobillz6895
      @gobillz6895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      check out the Bath Michigan Schoolhouse disaster

  • @bestiewolfsroadto200subs9
    @bestiewolfsroadto200subs9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This is one of the first videos that I found of yours, a while back. I enjoy your videos. And thank you for introducing me to The Magnus Archives. They do a great job setting an eerie stage.

  • @angiedillman7963
    @angiedillman7963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    We just had a solar flare like a few months ago to a year. I remember my astronomy teacher in college telling us that electrical equipment can fail and act weird during the flare and electrical storms can pop-up (I live by Tampa, lightning capital of the world.) I find this stuff fascinating, although it is not my major, I'm glad I took that class.

  • @nightrunnerxm393
    @nightrunnerxm393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2546

    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.

    • @jaygee404
      @jaygee404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Educational and informative

    • @angelicaapperson950
      @angelicaapperson950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      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.

    • @nightrunnerxm393
      @nightrunnerxm393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@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.

    • @angelicaapperson950
      @angelicaapperson950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nightrunnerxm393 I agree, pictures from probes just don't do them justice.

    • @nightrunnerxm393
      @nightrunnerxm393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fahey5719 Really? Huh. Cool.

  • @VorpalStorm
    @VorpalStorm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3807

    Seeing how this pandemic has been handled, I don’t feel good about a Carrington level event happening at all.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +268

      Trump would call it a hoax. And when it was clear its not a hoax, his minions would claim he never said that.

    • @5ynthesizerpatel
      @5ynthesizerpatel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      @@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

    • @TheLittlered1961
      @TheLittlered1961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@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.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @Ronald 240Bravo thank god. Imagine if we did have a minor event with Trump. He would call it a hoax.

    • @rdean150
      @rdean150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      @@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.

  • @James2005.
    @James2005. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I’m exited for another one of these events. A once in a lifetime experience would it be.

    • @iosaturnalia
      @iosaturnalia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’ll be beautiful, but it’ll also mean global power outages and catastrophic damage. Not fun.

  • @pennypay1
    @pennypay1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @Ikuconodule
    @Ikuconodule 3 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    Birds: [tweet]
    "So anyways, I started blastin'..."

    • @SolstaceWinters
      @SolstaceWinters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Some guy: "... and I took that personally."

    • @ikaros4203
      @ikaros4203 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO

    • @jacobwhelan45
      @jacobwhelan45 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fascinating horror: We are due for this potentially apocalyptic event to occur
      TH-cam comments:

  • @goblingoochgobbler5759
    @goblingoochgobbler5759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?

  • @sonar357
    @sonar357 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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)

  • @hungryhedgehog4201
    @hungryhedgehog4201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think the game The Long Dark has a Carrington Event as the disaster that sets the events of the game in motion. The event shuts down most electronics and a major snowstorm blocks roads and traintracks in the canadian wilderness that this game takes place. On certain nights the sky is illumated by northern lights and lights and radios in the abdandonned houses start on their own.

    • @rocketxiv4980
      @rocketxiv4980 ปีที่แล้ว

      spot-on assessment

    • @AS-qg1xu
      @AS-qg1xu หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is it a video game

  • @annalevy4335
    @annalevy4335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    Sponsored by The Magnus Archives! Yes! I just finished the whole show and highly recommend any fans of Fascinating Horror to go have a listen! So cool that you got sponsored by them, congratulations :)

    • @Justin.Martyr
      @Justin.Martyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *U-666-Tube's Constant WAR on GOD; is wut PROVES GOD to ME, & I WiLL Never,*
      *Vote ANY DeMonRat, Ever Again!!!!*

    • @doabarrellroll69
      @doabarrellroll69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Justin.Martyr alright then.

    • @babecat2000
      @babecat2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Justin.Martyr paranoid nut.

    • @bevoss7573
      @bevoss7573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Justin.Martyr
      Math not meth

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just researched how to podcast and downloaded a podcast app (podbean) because of the magnus archive recommendation here, so I am now set for podcasting, so I guess my tablet will be useful for something after all.

  • @savagecomanche
    @savagecomanche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    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

    • @whoot813
      @whoot813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

    • @Wildstar40
      @Wildstar40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep we are one failing magnetosphere away from cooking everything off this planet.

    • @madameshadow5222
      @madameshadow5222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t leave home without it.

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think I found yours.

  • @187mrsmith
    @187mrsmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Poor birds rest in peace all they were trying to do was let us know that something was happening!

  • @DulyDullahan
    @DulyDullahan ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It’s fascinating how different a Carrington event affects humanity at different points of history.

    • @joejones9520
      @joejones9520 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      pre-electricity is was just a pretty show that at worst disturbed some people's sleep but now it would be total societal collapse.

    • @blindbrad4719
      @blindbrad4719 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Caveman: time to ug hunting…. greeks: Titans and gods fighting. Christians: let there be light! Aztecs: time to start sacrificing! Egyptians: aliens! 😂

  • @KodasGarden
    @KodasGarden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1292

    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.

    • @unchargedpickles6372
      @unchargedpickles6372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      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

    • @HeritageWealthPlanning
      @HeritageWealthPlanning ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I just tell people that if they eat carrots 🥕 they will die
      Nothing we can do about it

    • @zacharysherry2910
      @zacharysherry2910 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@HeritageWealthPlanning lol

    • @Allen-R
      @Allen-R ปีที่แล้ว +8

      also, wasn't there one that happened 2012? (it just missed us by 9 days apparently)

    • @lawrencetalbot8346
      @lawrencetalbot8346 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      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.

  • @joeg5414
    @joeg5414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +666

    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.

    • @petermitchell6348
      @petermitchell6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Don't expect much help from the US. Their President can barely tie his own shoe laces.

    • @Microtherion
      @Microtherion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      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...

    • @Val.Kyrie.
      @Val.Kyrie. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds familiar.

    • @JoseyWales44s
      @JoseyWales44s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@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.

    • @Microtherion
      @Microtherion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@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...)

  • @VivaLaDnDLogs
    @VivaLaDnDLogs ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definitely a Magnus Archive subject.

  • @avicennitegh1377
    @avicennitegh1377 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome, balanced and such a listenable clear narration. Thanks so much.

  • @TheMissGnat
    @TheMissGnat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    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 😬

    • @euansmith3699
      @euansmith3699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Texas Arctic Storm, "Hold my drink."

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @SilveniumTheDrifter
      @SilveniumTheDrifter 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heh.

  • @kristeno1982
    @kristeno1982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1117

    I haven’t had anything major to induce catastrophic anxiety levels in my life recently so thank you for this

    • @emperormajestybiggzigg5174
      @emperormajestybiggzigg5174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      HONEY! A POLE SHIFT IS COMING! DO SOME RESEARCH!

    • @blondwiththewind2598
      @blondwiththewind2598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😆

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What about the pandemic?

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 tell that to india

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@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

  • @finleylemma4934
    @finleylemma4934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I wasn't aware that The Magnus Archives sponsored videos, but absolutely do check it out if you're at all into horror! It's a wonderful podcast (seriously, I'm on my fourth listen), and a truly fascinating web of stories and mystery. Each episode is about twenty minutes long--a perfect length for drives. Plus, if you're worried about difficulty with audio processing, there are transcripts available online for every episode, including bonus content.

    • @LivinLuxuriously
      @LivinLuxuriously 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Seriously? It’s literally a British dude narrating - lol 😅 I tried it soooo many times- people saying things like “oh it picks up momentum at around the 13th episode “ 👀🙄

  • @elijahevans1191
    @elijahevans1191 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the Magnus Archives. Love Fascinating Horror. Glad to see them overlap

  • @donutchan8114
    @donutchan8114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    "With preparation we can avoid the worst."
    *Looks back at what happened last year*
    "...We'd be deeply screwed."

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      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.

    • @j.d.e.7416
      @j.d.e.7416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm actually listening to an audiobook right now that is about a fictitious similar event in the modern world.

    • @YuumiGamer1243
      @YuumiGamer1243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@j.d.e.7416 would you like to share the title?

    • @j.d.e.7416
      @j.d.e.7416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@YuumiGamer1243, it's called 'After Sundown' and was written by Linda Howard.

    • @rgarito
      @rgarito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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!)

  • @djjudas21
    @djjudas21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    A solar event that breaks the wifi is a much more terrifying proposition than almost everything else you’ve ever covered

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      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.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@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.

    • @catherinep2034
      @catherinep2034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@fattiger6957 oh, that is scary

    • @SigrunHT
      @SigrunHT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      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.

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@SigrunHT What an interesting plcture you paint, by the way you forgot about cannibalism, plenty of food about eh !.

  • @NoFucksGivenOnViagra
    @NoFucksGivenOnViagra ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favorite entry. Splendid job reporting on it!

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fascinating, I really admire your dispassionate productions. It means I can concentrate on your research and presentation without being shrieked at or having to allow for hyperbole. Thanks.

  • @VanK782
    @VanK782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    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

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Scumfuck McDoucheface it's still early days for this video so maybe others will comment

    • @DaleDix
      @DaleDix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      From Australia, we've always given them the nickname "southern Aroura ". We even named one of our luxury express trains "The Southern Aroura".

    • @DaleDix
      @DaleDix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Scumfuck McDoucheface the Northern Lights are always part of Canadian holiday packages.

    • @ghostcrystal7930
      @ghostcrystal7930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well damn didn’t know that thank you for informing 😅

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @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

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +662

    "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.

    • @cs40660
      @cs40660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      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

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      it's all fear mongering, overdue means sometime in the next 10,000 years, and these events are exaggerated

    • @thefisherking78
      @thefisherking78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@AverageAlien not really tho

    • @fruub
      @fruub 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      You have to keep in mind that scientists think in centuries and eons, and not weeks/months/years/decades.

    • @thefisherking78
      @thefisherking78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@fruub depends what kind of scientist 😜

  • @anyanomous
    @anyanomous ปีที่แล้ว

    I clicked on this video to learn more about the carrington event to find inspiration for a story of mine- didnt expect to see my favorite horror podcast sponsoring this video!!

  • @rjstevens6954
    @rjstevens6954 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This definitely was worth a revist after yesterday's aurora events!

  • @Vpmatt
    @Vpmatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    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!

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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.

    • @MariAdkins
      @MariAdkins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@borderlineiq yup.

  • @itsmegamo
    @itsmegamo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    "Airplanes will be grounded..."
    Let's hope before the event, and not directly from the sky. 😬

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@gsdalpha1358 Modern cars are also very dependent on computerized components. If a solar flare hits, drivers will lose control and smash into each other.

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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.

    • @rgarito
      @rgarito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fattiger6957 At least a car is ALREADY on the ground...

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @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.

  • @justicewokeisutterbs8641
    @justicewokeisutterbs8641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting. I didn't know about this. Thank you for your comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon. 😁👍

  • @BattleBound
    @BattleBound 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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?

  • @erinlin7
    @erinlin7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    "a swift, well coordinated response" so we're screwed, is what you're saying.

    • @bickyboo7789
      @bickyboo7789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Faraday cages are pretty useful for saving electronics.

    • @PeterMilanovski
      @PeterMilanovski 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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!

    • @1977Yakko
      @1977Yakko 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

    • @mikelouis9389
      @mikelouis9389 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bickyboo7789 Got one big enough for a car?

    • @Stand_Tall
      @Stand_Tall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PeterMilanovski when power goes out, control rods will just fall into place dampening the reaction, plus the halls are designed to contain a meltdown

  • @Meppity
    @Meppity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    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!

    • @brycryfry
      @brycryfry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      didn't expect to see you here! love your art btw!

    • @I_Bully_The_Bullies
      @I_Bully_The_Bullies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yeah, well I won’t ask you! 😂🤣🤣🤣❤️

    • @ziziflor9019
      @ziziflor9019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Time to look up what this is. I need more interesting TH-cam videos

    • @michaelreynolds7469
      @michaelreynolds7469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ziziflor9019 haha same! You should tell me what episodes you recommend one you do and I'll do the same!

    • @elmomoorby1827
      @elmomoorby1827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope you enjoy season 4 and 5! It is a great show

  • @AegisAuras
    @AegisAuras ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Seymour, the world is ending!”
    “No, mother, it’s just the northern lights.”

  • @flamebroiledsquirrel
    @flamebroiledsquirrel ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Channel endorsement: when you are quite familiar with the topic covered, but eagerly watch anyway. Nice job, as always FH💀

  • @benbriggsmusic
    @benbriggsmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Wasn’t expecting this to be the most terrifying video yet, but here we are

  • @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime
    @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A teacher of mine actually told me about this event, it was one of those days were I really felt the old adage of ignorance is bliss.

  • @wkgurr
    @wkgurr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Assumed intervals between Carrington Events: If this interval is about 150 years, the one before the 1859 event should have taken place sometimes at the end of the 1600s and the beginning of the 1700s. Well within recorded history. Is there any evidence (written reports, paintings) that such an event actually took place around this time? If not, how do scientests arrive at the value of 150 years between these events?

  • @cherie7725
    @cherie7725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    This event was clearly the inspiration for The Long Dark.

  • @mistertamura6190
    @mistertamura6190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1278

    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.

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      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?

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      The moon is supposed to "wobble" in the 2030s so expect massive tide disruption then.

    • @jakual339
      @jakual339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@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

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@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.

    • @juanelorriaga2840
      @juanelorriaga2840 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@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

  • @arrye7790
    @arrye7790 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Randomly finding this and giving it a watch on the 28th of August is crazy

  • @quantum4691
    @quantum4691 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Let's see how different tomorrow will be. If we are lucky nothing bad will happen.

  • @rhys1264
    @rhys1264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    'We are...overdue' -- *sighs, adds ANOTHER thing to worry about onto my huge overflowing pile of things to worry about*

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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.

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fattiger6957 You'll just have to live with it...or not !

    • @andysings
      @andysings 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      >>

  • @ianp7661
    @ianp7661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    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!

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @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.

    • @potatooolatke
      @potatooolatke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @georgemallory797
      @georgemallory797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We were perfectly prepared for Covid-19. It's called our immune systems. Human intervention for nefarious purposes is the problem.

  • @CrazyFunnyCats
    @CrazyFunnyCats 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A solar flare travels at the speed of light...so about 8 minutes to reach earth, the cme Usually takes 2 to 3 days, but the Carrington event took only 18 to 22 hours sources claim. ✨✨✨
    Thanks for the interesting video 👍

  • @b1gfronto685
    @b1gfronto685 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Witnessed this many times while living in the bush in alaska its amazing something ill never forget ever

  • @runlarryrun77
    @runlarryrun77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    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.

    • @georgesracingcar7701
      @georgesracingcar7701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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.

    • @shimmershine6902
      @shimmershine6902 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn 💀💀💀

    • @duckmeat4674
      @duckmeat4674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@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

    • @LoneStarMillennial
      @LoneStarMillennial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It actually can and does every summer, they just didn’t prepare. They didn’t heed the warnings.

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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.

  • @angelfrankenfine
    @angelfrankenfine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    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.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's definitely on my bucket list

    • @crazytrain7114
      @crazytrain7114 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine being able to see it in South Carolina! In Alaska it would be all around you

    • @MariAdkins
      @MariAdkins 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

    • @peterdeane4490
      @peterdeane4490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @joshleenall
      @joshleenall 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @LBCORP1960
    @LBCORP1960 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your videos. They are truly "fascinating." I always learn something new.

  • @raycapetillo5569
    @raycapetillo5569 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

    • @Kalbuir66
      @Kalbuir66 ปีที่แล้ว

      No we didn't. The Sun did, but it was in the opposite direction from us. Maybe learn to pay attention.

  • @ridley_grace
    @ridley_grace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +346

    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.

    • @janreznak881
      @janreznak881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      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.

    • @Lo0ny_T0ons
      @Lo0ny_T0ons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dude she also got agitated

    • @codetech5598
      @codetech5598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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 ...

    • @Lo0ny_T0ons
      @Lo0ny_T0ons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@codetech5598 I’d go crazy,

    • @zp944
      @zp944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +552

    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

    • @Warmaka
      @Warmaka ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Many more than we have hits. Space is big and earth is a small target.

    • @sonar357
      @sonar357 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Yup. The Mayans were almost proven right

    • @shadowsinmymind9
      @shadowsinmymind9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Also, one right before World War 2 started. It was either in '38 or '39

    • @mikeharris4562
      @mikeharris4562 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

    • @BlazinRiver1
      @BlazinRiver1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      With our weakening magnetosphere we will see more and more of this...recently Musk lost a few birds.

  • @CharlotteForbes
    @CharlotteForbes ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @humanitech
    @humanitech 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is very interesting to note and realise, as we - semi and slowly evolving humans - continue to develop, explore, study and confirm a more comprehensive understanding of all the positive/negative actions, interactions, reactions and cycles that have happened and continue to occur at every scale in the cosmos.
    That we are just fragile temporary expressions that will eventually come to an end and return to elemental states....Hopefully to be reused and recycled again and again into new expressions as and when possible.
    So it great to always stop and enjoy this fragile crazy process of wonder and smile we have this opportunity to see this crazy cosmos ...as curious , confused and equally conflicting human beings!

  • @koffinkat666
    @koffinkat666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    FH: "An event like this happens every 150 years"
    Me: 😲
    FH: "At the time of recording it has been 160 since the last"
    Me: 😨😱

    • @johnmurphy5689
      @johnmurphy5689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Well we got very close to a Carrington event in 2012, we just got lucky as it just missed Earth.

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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
      @koffinkat666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ENCHANTMEN_ But isn't that a mathematical deduction based on Scientific truths?

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@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.

    • @SoulSin
      @SoulSin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everybody Gangsta until 10:40.

  • @reinerbraun670
    @reinerbraun670 2 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    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.

    • @gamemeister27
      @gamemeister27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's a ton of videos about it, but I'm also more on the science side of TH-cam.

    • @robdykejr
      @robdykejr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gamemeister27 : TH-cam has a science side,Brian?...I thought it was just all bullsh!t.🤔

    • @TheGingerbreadgurl
      @TheGingerbreadgurl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @DivaInTheWoods
      @DivaInTheWoods 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@robdykejr Science is a liar sometimes. I'm looking forward to a person who gets this. They're my kinda people!

    • @TheSopheom
      @TheSopheom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are however, numerous channels speaking of the mudflood that seemed to reset the end of the 19th century,,,, ^^

  • @sophiab6239
    @sophiab6239 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This gave me such Nightvale vibes, I love it

  • @SHGRetro
    @SHGRetro ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @hazridge
    @hazridge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    "Aurora borealis becomes visible at *the poles*"
    Aurora australis: "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      No, Aurora Australis, you're the polar opposite of funny.

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@St.Linguini_of_Pesto I disagree, we are poles apart on this subject.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You two need to sit facing 180 degrees from each other.

    • @johnhaller7017
      @johnhaller7017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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!

    • @shirmeymckamey9386
      @shirmeymckamey9386 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@St.Linguini_of_Pesto nnnnnn;n;nnnn;;
      N
      L
      )

  • @themurderofcoke
    @themurderofcoke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +934

    The most impressive part of this is that man got up in the middle of the night, half asleep and shot 3 small birds with a handgun.

    • @animallovefest143
      @animallovefest143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      And... I called "him" an asshole. If he was that good of a shot, he could've easily thrown a rock, or two. Christina & The Animal Love Fest 😽😽😽🐺🐰💋

    • @demonicloaf2100
      @demonicloaf2100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@animallovefest143 Why is him in quotation marks? Sorry, am asking this without having watched the video first, so I could be missing some important facts that would explain the quotation marks.

    • @ryanvess6162
      @ryanvess6162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@animallovefest143 what part of your brain makes you think being a good shot with a gun translates to having a good arm? Would you rather "him" break the birds wings with a rock so it can waddle around on the ground until a fox or a hawk gets it and tears it to shreds? Or die blissfully being blown away by a chunk of lead

    • @animallovefest143
      @animallovefest143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@ryanvess6162 Wow! What is your trip? If you don't understand what I'm talking about, why are you acting like a creep to me? Do you not see the name of my channel? Obviously, I am an animal lover. So, of course I didn't mean to actually hit the birds! Ugh You can throw a rock in the general direction of most smaller animals and they will bail... I thought most people knew that, but I guess not. Next time I'll make sure to be more clear, in case someone like yourself needs more input. Christina & The Animal Love Fest 😽😽😽🐺🐰💋

    • @animallovefest143
      @animallovefest143 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@demonicloaf2100 Referring to the "guy" in the previous comment, that I was responding to.

  • @Meeckle
    @Meeckle 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    From a labouring job I did in my teens, I know that a lot of military electronics are protected in EMP proof buildings. I wonder how these would be effected in a Carrington Event.

  • @user-wm8no6kz6s
    @user-wm8no6kz6s 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great! Just another thing to worry about! Thanks👍

  • @punkybrewstar83
    @punkybrewstar83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Loving that you are getting all these sponsors now bro- well deserved 🙂