@@Marinealver That could be the follow up question to "were we ready for...", and is pointless considering you already know the answer. More appropriately, you should be asking "how many would die?"
As someone who works in the hydroelectric industry, I can tell you right now that we are NOT prepared. At all. The electrical grid is so fragile, it may as well be made of cut glass.
I'm confident that our big power companies and grid operators in the US will be investing whatever is necessary to prepare for a Carrington-level event. One good example of how they plan ahead is the recent cold-weather event in Texas and how well the grid was prepared for that. Ummm, errrrr, ..... never mind.
Well, to be fair, we all do very little to prepare for all aspects of life. Humans tend to wait until disaster strikes and then call for action only after significant damage has already been done.
Based on all the places I have worked and all the people I have worked with, we are not prepared and it will be a matter of how competent we are at dealing with the aftermath.
Even a blast like starfish prime could be a serious event. Are we ready? Heck no. While a small amount of government and military systems are shielded, it is too expensive to be used by almost any company.
I work on the electrical grid every day, he is a little confused on some stuff. We use a devise, and I mean millions of them the don’t let this stuff happen. If we have a big storm nothing really bad will happen. And when I say million of them I mean millions in ever city.
@Ярослав Л Careful, it's a trick. When they see the next large CME, 15 hours later they will turn all the North and South grids off, isolate the breakers and then wait for the pulse to pass by. Then they will wait a few hours to see what you do.......... O^O How's that for sneaky?
Probably not. I remember seeing the aurora when I lived in northern Nevada at around 40° North latitude back in 2003. It was one of the largest solar storm events of the space age, and I can't find any references to any major damage being caused by it. There was an hour long blackout in Sweden, and some satellites were damaged, but that was about it. Since most of Germany is above 47°N, you would be able to see auroras caused by even weaker storms.
I’m calling it: Curios Droid is now the only British spiritual successor to Horizon and QED still broadcasting. Terrestrial UK television science programming is all but dead now.
What about Brian Cox? He's the successor to Patrick Moore. I don't agree with Brian's politics. But he knows his space stuff. Curious Droid is a cool dude
The earth is hardly struggling with anything in the UK they've built massive regional hospitals to cope specifically with covid patients and guess what they were never hardly used. Deaths have been exaggerated because of incorrect data gathering (eg counting one death as mutiple deaths or incorrectly attributing deaths to covid thje list goes on and on) And now the government has mandated the wearing of masks in shops for absolutely no reason when we are well past the peak of this chinese flu.
@@Chris-hx3om sun: *comes back* man these fuckers are crazy how we wipe them out Black pluge: hold my beer I got this (No joke we have a black pluge now )
I could listen to Paul talk all day long. I have a large interest in physics and find this page so informative and interesting. The way he puts very complicated subjects into layman’s terms is absolutely fantastic.
I can remember the 1989 event.....I live 30 Km south of Byron Bay on the North Coast of NSW...and the sky to the south was a bright red colour...I thought it was cane fires, but when I went out, there were none, just thes red glow in the sky......looked unreal
Geelong here. My mate and I were about 30km west of town stargazing that night. Red glows, blue/green curtains and even a disintegrating meteorite later in the night. It was good to be alive to witness it all.
@@TheCrunchifiedOne Shows just how extensive it was, and how overloaded the southern end of the magnetic field was. Normally we are too far north to get any auroral activity here, and you Brissy folk would otherwise have no chance. I'd seen red glows from Geelong as a boy in 1978. 11 years prior. 🤔
I remember the big 1989 CME because it happened on my daughter's birthday. It brought down the entire electrical grid for the province of Québec (1.5 million square kilometers), with my hometown, Montréal, being the largest urban center hit. Weirdly, though it always gets cited as an example of what CMEs can do, few people who lived through it actually remember much about it. It happened during the night and power was restored in the early afternoon. End of story
@Owen Yin Sweden just started maintenance checks on theirs. Will take over 4 years cos they have bunkers for twice their own population. You can buy Faraday tents for 10 bucks online easily if it is just a CME.
If your system is connected to the grid, then yes, do it ASAP. If it's independent of the grid, then you probably don't need to worry. The threat to you comes from the long power lines of the grid, not from the short lines of a local installation. Most satellites can survive simply because they're small. If I get advance notice of a thunderstorm I disconnect my router from (long overhead) mains and phone line. It's been fried twice before I started doing this. The energy concentration of either lightning or a Carrington event is not enough to damage the router if it's not connected. Well OK, except if thé lightning happens to pick my house.....
If you are tied to the grid with your solar, ask your utility about your transformer. If it is single phase with neutral return and the neutral is grounded at the pole or pad, you may have a concern. These are most often 7200 volt single bushing primary transformers. For isolation, request a 2 bushing transformer for 12800 volt phase to phase primary. A delta primary has no neutral or ground connection and thus have no DC path providing proper isolation. The center of the secondary is neutral bonded for local are grounding and does not carry DC currents or voltage from high earth current. If your facility is fed with a pad mounted transformer, read the name plate to find the type. If you are fed from a utility pole transformer, count the number of HV bushings on top. You want a transformer with 2 bushings connected to phase to phase on a 3 phase system, not a single hot phase and neutral feeding the transformer. A one bushing transformer may have fairly high neutral current on the transformer ground. Surge protection is for lighting strikes and other transient events, not a sustained DC neutral current in your local utility transformer.
@@raykent3211 For lightning protection of your router, check the grounding of the phone system interface. Is it bonded to the utility service and the plumbing? Bonding all three provides good protection from transient spikes. The surge protection of the phone line should be tied to the main grounding system for the utility to prevent a high differential voltage between phone lines and utility power ground. For more info on the subject and the regulations, see this article. www.bicsi.org/docs/default-source/conference-presentations/2017-mea-uae/grounding-and-bonding.pdf?sfvrsn=3112558d_2
This was addressed after 2000. EMP attack or CMEs are inevitable. It would cost a few billion to be prepared for the aftermath, but they still can’t get the funding to do it. We can either harden the electrical grid against these things (unlikely to accomplish) or have sufficient spares we can expect to be taken out to restore power within days. Most smaller-scale transformers already exist in supply as spare parts. However, some of the largest ones have no spares. A new one is manufactured when needed. Now, if an EMP or CME took these large ones out, no power and it would take MONTHS to make just one and transport it for installation. Millions would die from our electricity-dependent technology not working. The plan being promoted is to have spares manufactured and stored on-site for quick installation as needed...replace each one as it’s put into service.
Biber Maniac - That’s the point. You could restore power locally or bring in generators, but that’s time passing just to start making them. Meantime, civilization is falling apart.
I have just re-watched this video - and I am still very satisfied with this summary of geomagnetic storms and our vulnerability. The visuals and explanation are really well done.
Won't be as funny when half the population starves to death... until you realize the other half can have a cannibal barbecue, then it's fun again. Edit: Cannibal Barbecue would be a good name for a metal band
This is the first video I have seen on the subject who got the effect on power grids right: it is saturation of the transformers that does the damage. Saturation occurs in iron core transformers when added current no longer makes meaningful increase in the magnetic flux in the core. When that point is reached the transformer no longer presents a high impedance to the source, so current increases radically. The resulting heating of the wires in the transformer damages the insulation. Electric transmission lines have protection systems, of course, to protect against faults. If a phase shorts to ground, or a pair of phases short together, the voltage and current sensors report to the protection equipment and let it decide how far away the fault is. Saturation current bypasses them because the fault is on the wrong side of the sensors. At the other end of the line the DC current is having the same effect. If the line is powered down or is carrying relatively little current nothing bad happens. (Retired from a Fortune 100 electric utility a couple years ago; supporting protective relaying was the main reason I had to sleep with a duty phone by my head.)
With the sun waking up, the magnetic poles on the move and the magnetic feilds strength on an accelerated decline... I'd say be a good time to prepare.
Yeah there was no mention of the mangentic pole shift or the weakening magnetosphere in this at all. Not to mention how much more at risk we are now, going into solar cycle 25 and the sun is already more active!
@@madezra64 if you listen to this people were talking mass instincrion. How ever pole changes happened several times in earth's history. Don't worry nothing will happen during your life time
thank you for this information i have been attempting to educate two mid-teens on the difference between a CME & an EMP this episode validates my instruction
The transformers are far more resilient than they used to be. For instance if there was a Carrington type event in the UK, a 2013 analysis found that there would be: * 6 transformers affected in England, 7 in Scotland * Repair time of weeks to months. * Some local electricity interruptions of a few hours * Most nodes have more than one transformer so not all the transformer failures would lead to customers getting disconnected from the power grid. A 2012 report in the US came to a similar conclusion. > “NERC recognizes that other studies have indicated a severe GMD event would result in the failure of a large number of EHV transformers. The work of the GMD Task Force documented in this report does not support this result for reasons detailed in Chapter 5 (Power Transformers), and Chapter 8 (Power System Analysis). Instead, voltage instability is the far more likely result of a severe GMD storm, although older transformers of a certain design and transformers near the end of operational life could experience damage, which is also detailed in Chapter 5 (Power Transformers).” Most power lines would not be affected for the reasons he said, depends on the geology. This map shows the most likely to be affected power lines in the US in bright colours (yellowish white). Knowing that those are the ones to protect electricity companies can take special care over just those ones. www.quora.com/q/debunkingdoomsday/What-would-the-effects-be-of-a-major-solar-storm-Short-term-local-power-cuts-for-hours-not-widespread-blackout-for-mo
I have a 4 cylinder, 31 year old Mazda pick up truck in perfect shape... No electronics, nothing electric, even the windows are manual, lol... But when the EMP hits, the streets will be mine alone!!! 😁
They rely heavily on kerosene, lamp oil and gas for equipment and chainsaws. They would manage better, but it would be a shift. And like the rest of us, they quit spinning and weaving when mass produced fabric came along.
@@uzaiyaro To see a CME coming it must be monitored - good luck to the monitoring stations, I hope they have drilled the situations plenty of times, 15 minutes to pass decisions is critical. And don't forget there can be stronger than Carrington Event magnitude, we only have a few hundred years of data. There's info coming out that our star is a long recurrent micro-nova star, meaning we may get a micro-nova every few tens of thousands of years. What happens when the Earth's magnetic field is weakened, Moon? Did you know the strength is 80% baseline of what it used to be for the past thousand years? The magnetic field is weakening at a rate of 5% per decade currently, and due to weaken at a faster rate as time goes. And what about the poles beginning their trek into reversal? The reversal transit is speeding up and the poles will reverse in the next 100-200 years. Meaning the magnetic field will be severely weakened. Not only this, when a strong CME hits it actually increases the speed of Earth's magnetic reversal (see the Carrington Event 1859, this is the year the Magnetic North pole began its immediate reversal direction).
If Americas power companies are half as incompetent as our government, we're so screwed. And just like the pandemic we have known this has been coming for years.
Low mortality rates are why we responded so poorly. It was easy to ignore because it doesn't affect the average person. If Covid had a ~5% mortality rate and mainly affected young people, it would have been squashed out long ago.
This is a very good reminder of how prepared we need to be for huge CME's. With tech like Starlink coming out, who knows how badly the entire network would suffer if hit by this sort of CME. Thanks for the video!
We know how badly it would suffer. But the effects of that will be much worse. Large areas offline (electricity-wise and internet-wise) for extended periods of time will be devastating for the people of today.
The way 2020 is going, a massive CME wouldn't surprise me in the least, right after the next, 9.5 subduction earthquake here in the West Coast of Canada...
Start writing it down before someone steals your idea ,like me.lol all kidding aside that plot sounds better than 95% of the garbage hollywierd puts out nowadays!🙂💯👍👍👍👍👍
This channel is so well done -- jumps straight into the topic with no "Hey TH-camrs!" or "Please Like and Subscribe so you don't miss any of my awesome content!"....with quality content that is professionally scripted, produced, and presented. Kudos to you, Curious Droid.
Thanks for the good report. As regards the risk factor of a big solar flare, I think you should take into consideration the fact that earth’s magnetic field is currently much weaker than it was by end of 19th century and even the 20th century. We are much more vulnerable now due to the magnetic pole changes.
I have to echo that. Our magnetosphere currently is down about 20% and is accelerating it's decline. Also, our magnetic poles are moving and we are headed for a magnetic excursion or reversal. YOU SHOULD HAVE COVERED THIS!!!
Oh! Wait! Like a micro nova? A cyclic event of the Sun we are due for again? That will have two parts to it. First is the massive radiation of the explosion from the surface of the sun. Whoever is facing it gets irradiated. The whami comes 18 hours later when the shock wave arrives at Earth. The dust and debris fly by stripping the upper atmosphere and dropping the pressure on the exposed surface causing fires and sudden freeze. I hope I'm dead when that happens.
@@zackattack5414 not much, tbh they are mostly harmless to humans, but they could be bad for the wildlife as they don't have natural predators here iirc
When I was in college, my astronomy professor told us about how he used to see, every once in a while, Auroras in Central Florida. They would be extremely faint but they were still visible.
There are very, very few places left in the Eastern USA where the night sky isn't polluted with lights from houses, companies, towns and cities. Depending on how long ago that was, your professor may have lived in such an area. Those who have never spent the nights very far from civilization will never know all they are missing in the night skies.
Geez, what a fascinating video. Fantastic images of the Sun and the MCE's. I've known and understand the physics involved, being a physicist, but the motion pictures or CG images really brought the theories and science together for the masses. Good job Curious Droid.
An interesting topic. When I first learned of the "Carrington Event" I was amazed about how much damage was caused to an extremely, very early electrical grid. Grid is probably the wrong word. Get's the idea across though. I've often wondered how the modern world would hold up? Not so well I imagine. Sun's at minimum for now. Thanks.
Right the Carrington event was a five planet alignment, lining up their plasma tails creating an electric circuit from the Sun, through the Earth. Actually the telegraph batteries did burn out and they worked for months without batteries.. No such alignment is coming, just Venus' plasma tail lining up this year.
@@CativaCookie yeah, because the united states has obviously collapsed and it's mad max right now, the goverment has fallen people on the streets are killing each other for what remains of food and water Grow up, the pandemic is bad yes (people I personaly knew has died because of corona, I myself got sick but got better) but civilización hasnt collapsed and it's actually going just as strong, covid-19 has actually killed less people than many other pandemics, seriously, people live their first quarantine and are already thinking this is the end of the world, shit like this happens every ten years, I still remember influenza h1n1
Apparently SUPER well prepared! Overall mortality due to "Pneumonia and Influenza-Like Illness" is exactly in the range of "NORMAL" in Q1 2020. So Well Done everyone! Nothing happened! We survived!!
@@Rachel-tz2ls The biggest factor in the COVID-19 pandemic that caused increased mortality was and is the massive disinformation campaign by plague deniers. The Chinese government tried to downplay the epidemic on its outset, and the American populace did their best to report the rampant reports of infection and death as not happening. It was almost as if someone was pulling the strings of both the Communist Party and the Republican Party to simultaneously act as one. Was there someone acting behind the scenes? Don't know. Don't care. The biggest factor in the spread of the disease right now are those disinformation agents. They're pulling their own strings, and the primary means of protecting yourself is cutting those strings in any way possible.
The 2012 supersolar storm was compared to the Carrington event Back then it was estimated it would have sent us to stone age because it will destroy all the electric infrastructure Imagine now in 2020...with all the phones internet etc 🙈
Not having Smartphones is not a very good metric of the impact of such an event. You have to look at the growth of cloud services from 2012 to today, and it's massive. That's where industry data is at, and if data centers go down, that means no orders, no shipments, no production. I've dealt with companies that lost their data, and it's a total nightmare. If everyone looses their data, that's a doomsday scenario. Any good business must have procedures in place to deal with partial and total loss of their IT infrastructure. This might seem a huge task, but you might print and preserve the current situation once a while (financial situation, all contacts and addresses, production status, etc) and be much better off. You don't want to do it too often, because it's lengthy and costly, but you want to do it at least once or twice a year if you don't wish to be back at square zero with your business when it happens. Because it will eventually happen
Anybody else think about this ? We have these CME (coronal mass ejections) threat's all the time now and corona virus. See the similarities here? Great video, well done and easy to understand. Thank u sir.
Yes Braiden, or how about this... what if we were to have a strong CME on the U.S. election day (November 3rd?), 2020? All those voting machines, all of those very important votes which will define our future. I think I'll need to not think about that one.
Excellent product, clear explanations of complex topics and natural occurrences totally out of the nands of mankind. Many thanks, another plus for this item is the lack of ridiculous music which adorns so many technical reports.
Hi! GMT. Prepare now, while we still have time. Make a rocket stove. We did. Very cheap. Buy some bricks from Bunnings then get on youtube and watch some videos. Really easy. The one we built works like a charm and you only need small bits of branches and twigs to get a roaring fire, if you've built it to specification. Also buy candles, and oil lamps, or buy a metal tool box and put your batteries and torches in there to shield them damage. Best of luck.
Some freeze dried food lasts 25-30 years. It's just nice to have it handy just in case. I live in Alaska and avalanches can easily trap us in our little town or knock out the power for days or weeks. Most people here are decently well prepared for these sorts of things, but if you're in an Urban area.....damn dude you'd be in a bad situation.
Great video Paul. I must admit that when I saw the title of this video I didn't feel very attracted to the topic and ended clicking on it without much enthusiasm. However, as I went on watching I got more and more fascinated thanks to your excellent content creating skills. Great job!
Brittani Williams I can 100% agree that there will definitely be a shift in human consciousness...everyone seems to be waking up at alarming rates, won’t be the same after.
Preparedness is a tradeoff of costs: How expensive is it to be prepared considering the frequency of the event vs. how expensive it is to deal with the aftermath. I hope people in positions of responsibility for this specific event are doing their math right, but regardless of that history shows we are better at responding reactively than proactively, to put it nicely.
This is by far the best science channel. Never any click bait, never any pretentious bs. It’s just great. My day is always better when you put up a new video. Seriously though, I watch the other channels but they always, ALWAYS find a way to tick me off. This channel has no politics either. Isn’t amazing how scientists all think they’re politicians? There is no place in science for politics and this channel is the only one that doesn’t push politics. I love that. We should demand that from scientists. Get politics out of science. Please.
I always expected to see a Carrington level CME in my lifetime before a global pandemic. Mother Nature loves to throw curveballs and a massive CME is due. Yikes!
This is scary to think about but with the proper set of skills, planning and living outside of major cities there’s a chance you could live through it. The ones that really scare me are the volcanos like Yellowstone, that shit pops off and everything on the planet is doomed and anything outside a certain radius is gonna die a slow and painful death.
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Better get cracking, 2020 ain’t over yet.
Yo Cody!
Cody's next project must be a Faraday cage for Chicken Hole Base.
@Codys Lab oh yea whatre u gunna do, go live in a mine and eat dogs? Pfffshffthhshhffthhsshht.
Only kidding lol
Or *am* I?
Yes. Lol.
Fin
Facts this could be our october suprise.
@J R Flying poo-flinging monkeys?
Basically just a seagull
Pretty much any question beginning with "are we ready for", the answer is a resounding hell no!
Immediately after reading this the 1st thing that came to mind of me telling the guys that the wife is on her way back home.
And afterwards the question to follow would be, "but did you die?"
@@SagaciousDjinn What?
@@Marinealver That could be the follow up question to "were we ready for...", and is pointless considering you already know the answer.
More appropriately, you should be asking "how many would die?"
@@trabladorr Zero. We are ready. Simple. ;-)
Respect to the cameraman for taking all these close shots of the sun, despite all the heat and solar winds.
I think his name is Icarus...
They go at night when the sun is cooler! 😄
@@AlainHubert Yup. That's the dude...used to date my sister.
Factor 5 million sun block was a good call
Tier 1 troll
As someone who works in the hydroelectric industry, I can tell you right now that we are NOT prepared. At all.
The electrical grid is so fragile, it may as well be made of cut glass.
Which country are you from?
Yeah ofc bc most of y’all are not the chosen and not eating heathy and not spiritual at all
@@TrellyTrell183 The page for crazy people spouting bullshit is over there ------------->
They're waiting for you.
Very true.
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I'm confident that our big power companies and grid operators in the US will be investing whatever is necessary to prepare for a Carrington-level event. One good example of how they plan ahead is the recent cold-weather event in Texas and how well the grid was prepared for that. Ummm, errrrr, ..... never mind.
Nah
You mean a once in a generation low temperature?
It’s easy to poke fun as hind sight is always 20/20.
Well, to be fair, we all do very little to prepare for all aspects of life. Humans tend to wait until disaster strikes and then call for action only after significant damage has already been done.
Based on all the places I have worked and all the people I have worked with, we are not prepared and it will be a matter of how competent we are at dealing with the aftermath.
Love you’re work, thank you.
Humans have always been good at picking up the pieces and rebuilding can only hope we're willing to do it again.
Even a blast like starfish prime could be a serious event. Are we ready? Heck no. While a small amount of government and military systems are shielded, it is too expensive to be used by almost any company.
I work on the electrical grid every day, he is a little confused on some stuff. We use a devise, and I mean millions of them the don’t let this stuff happen. If we have a big storm nothing really bad will happen. And when I say million of them I mean millions in ever city.
@Ярослав Л Careful, it's a trick. When they see the next large CME, 15 hours later they will turn all the North and South grids off, isolate the breakers and then wait for the pulse to pass by. Then they will wait a few hours to see what you do.......... O^O How's that for sneaky?
Note to self: when I see an aurora here in Germany we're in trouble.
1938 Hitler in his manson in Bavaria saw red light looked like Aurora Borealis. He said to his colleagues : it is time to spread blood
Even so, you are in trouble Germany. Not from one star, but from many on a blue background.
Probably not. I remember seeing the aurora when I lived in northern Nevada at around 40° North latitude back in 2003. It was one of the largest solar storm events of the space age, and I can't find any references to any major damage being caused by it. There was an hour long blackout in Sweden, and some satellites were damaged, but that was about it.
Since most of Germany is above 47°N, you would be able to see auroras caused by even weaker storms.
Germany wouldn’t be that bad. Mexico and the Caribbean, though? That’s nuts.
I can just see you, walking out and glancing up in the sky and just giving a deep sigh and thinking "well shit".
I’m calling it: Curios Droid is now the only British spiritual successor to Horizon and QED still broadcasting. Terrestrial UK television science programming is all but dead now.
Dam right. Best science show on yt
Didn't Channel 4's 'Equinox' also encompass science ...?
Respect - This channel is un rivalled in technical content
Are those two programmes gone now?
What about Brian Cox? He's the successor to Patrick Moore. I don't agree with Brian's politics. But he knows his space stuff. Curious Droid is a cool dude
I really like your teaching. You’re engaging, eloquent and you’re descriptive nature keeps us wanting more.
Earth : Struggling with Corona
Sun's Corona : You ain't seen nothing yet
US - suffering from Corona
Sun - hold my beer.
You mean earth struggling with 5G Syndrome, right?
The earth is hardly struggling with anything in the UK they've built massive regional hospitals to cope specifically with covid patients and guess what they were never hardly used. Deaths have been exaggerated because of incorrect data gathering (eg counting one death as mutiple deaths or incorrectly attributing deaths to covid thje list goes on and on) And now the government has mandated the wearing of masks in shops for absolutely no reason when we are well past the peak of this chinese flu.
Guys relax, this isn't gonna happen until at least September.
@@chatteyj globalists flu NWO
A CME is all I need for a bingo on my 2020 Bingo card... never wanted to lose this much in my life
Kolby Adams I could’ve called diagonal bingo already, but I heard were playing “blackout.”
Still have sharks in a hurricane.
I think my card is an old card.
From when I lived in Orlando.
Dam ! I have to still get zombies & giant meteor to win my 2020 bingo card 🙄
Humanity: "We have the technology to conquer nature itse-"
*SLAP*
Universe: "Sit down."
Humans: "We are prepared for the worst the sun can throw at us."
Sun: "Hold my beer, this won't take long."
@@Chris-hx3om why do I read this with an Ausie accent?
@@YouAskedForThis563 I have no idea, mate....
Humanity: *develops technology to create black holes and absorb energy from the sun* no, YOU sit down
@@Chris-hx3om sun: *comes back* man these fuckers are crazy how we wipe them out
Black pluge: hold my beer I got this
(No joke we have a black pluge now )
I could listen to Paul talk all day long. I have a large interest in physics and find this page so informative and interesting. The way he puts very complicated subjects into layman’s terms is absolutely fantastic.
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So you're tellin' me, a Carrington level solar storm would mean no more double ads on TH-cam? 🤔 I'm a glass half full kind of guy! 🤣🤣🤣
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Lmao ! Great reply
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Love your humor!
Funny LMAO.😳😜
Im certain that i have learned more from this channel than all of grade school and college. Love it
Screw drugs. I'm just going to stare at that shirt.
Welcome to the C.D. fan club.
This is called healthy natural drugging. I'm addicted to the moon, clouds, stars, ... and his shirts.
If you stare at it long enough, and then look out the window at night, you might see an aurora!
If you cross your eyes just right, it looks like he has two heads.
I can taste colour!
I can remember the 1989 event.....I live 30 Km south of Byron Bay on the North Coast of NSW...and the sky to the south was a bright red colour...I thought it was cane fires, but when I went out, there were none, just thes red glow in the sky......looked unreal
Geelong here.
My mate and I were about 30km west of town stargazing that night.
Red glows, blue/green curtains and even a disintegrating meteorite later in the night. It was good to be alive to witness it all.
Brisbane here. Crazy to think you saw it down in Geelong and down near Byron!
@@TheCrunchifiedOne Shows just how extensive it was, and how overloaded the southern end of the magnetic field was.
Normally we are too far north to get any auroral activity here, and you Brissy folk would otherwise have no chance.
I'd seen red glows from Geelong as a boy in 1978. 11 years prior. 🤔
Well if something like this is ever to happen, 2020 is the year!
yeah, since everything else is happening.
Don't tempt fate
2020 social life postponed.
2021 life postponed.
2022 life cancelled.
I need a new tinfoil hat.
Don Briggs That hat does wonders
@@dro634 Yeah. Had a lot of use lately.
When the Sun sneezes heavily towards us, could you say the Earth gets a bad case of corona..?
hold on, you on to something
Why not so far they said it's on cardboard boxes papaya and your house cat.... And even though masks are mandated the virus can sneak into your house.
Dammit.... That's what the media is going to say next.
That is actually the truth 🌅🌅🌅😁
Shit, I think you might have predicted December 2020
I've been concerned about this since studying Emergency Management in college in the early 'teens.
It's not good.
Your thoughts?
I remember the big 1989 CME because it happened on my daughter's birthday. It brought down the entire electrical grid for the province of Québec (1.5 million square kilometers), with my hometown, Montréal, being the largest urban center hit. Weirdly, though it always gets cited as an example of what CMEs can do, few people who lived through it actually remember much about it. It happened during the night and power was restored in the early afternoon. End of story
*I remember the Mass Ejection that occurred 9 months before her birth,,,,.*
Got a surge protector I've been meaning to install on my solar power system, I'll go do that now...
Think Faraday Cage....
@Owen Yin Sweden just started maintenance checks on theirs. Will take over 4 years cos they have bunkers for twice their own population.
You can buy Faraday tents for 10 bucks online easily if it is just a CME.
If your system is connected to the grid, then yes, do it ASAP. If it's independent of the grid, then you probably don't need to worry. The threat to you comes from the long power lines of the grid, not from the short lines of a local installation. Most satellites can survive simply because they're small. If I get advance notice of a thunderstorm I disconnect my router from (long overhead) mains and phone line. It's been fried twice before I started doing this. The energy concentration of either lightning or a Carrington event is not enough to damage the router if it's not connected. Well OK, except if thé lightning happens to pick my house.....
If you are tied to the grid with your solar, ask your utility about your transformer. If it is single phase with neutral return and the neutral is grounded at the pole or pad, you may have a concern. These are most often 7200 volt single bushing primary transformers. For isolation, request a 2 bushing transformer for 12800 volt phase to phase primary. A delta primary has no neutral or ground connection and thus have no DC path providing proper isolation. The center of the secondary is neutral bonded for local are grounding and does not carry DC currents or voltage from high earth current. If your facility is fed with a pad mounted transformer, read the name plate to find the type. If you are fed from a utility pole transformer, count the number of HV bushings on top. You want a transformer with 2 bushings connected to phase to phase on a 3 phase system, not a single hot phase and neutral feeding the transformer. A one bushing transformer may have fairly high neutral current on the transformer ground. Surge protection is for lighting strikes and other transient events, not a sustained DC neutral current in your local utility transformer.
@@raykent3211 For lightning protection of your router, check the grounding of the phone system interface. Is it bonded to the utility service and the plumbing? Bonding all three provides good protection from transient spikes. The surge protection of the phone line should be tied to the main grounding system for the utility to prevent a high differential voltage between phone lines and utility power ground.
For more info on the subject and the regulations, see this article. www.bicsi.org/docs/default-source/conference-presentations/2017-mea-uae/grounding-and-bonding.pdf?sfvrsn=3112558d_2
Was Richard Carrington ever charged and tried for his role in the event?
hahaha !!!
That's Funny!😅😅😅
Strange that there wasn't a law made then banning the sale and possession of CMEs!
Lock him up with Ben Garzi and that chinese hacker Four Chan I say.
I'm pretty sure he was billed for the damage. PG&E made SURE of that! lol
I seriously think that, with how important electricity is, protection from CMEs should have the highest possible priority all around the globe!
Humanity: nah, we just gonna keep creating new and exciting ways to kill each other
This was addressed after 2000. EMP attack or CMEs are inevitable. It would cost a few billion to be prepared for the aftermath, but they still can’t get the funding to do it. We can either harden the electrical grid against these things (unlikely to accomplish) or have sufficient spares we can expect to be taken out to restore power within days. Most smaller-scale transformers already exist in supply as spare parts. However, some of the largest ones have no spares. A new one is manufactured when needed. Now, if an EMP or CME took these large ones out, no power and it would take MONTHS to make just one and transport it for installation. Millions would die from our electricity-dependent technology not working. The plan being promoted is to have spares manufactured and stored on-site for quick installation as needed...replace each one as it’s put into service.
@@qdllc or or maybe we turn off all power supply for the time 🤔
@@qdllc I wonder where the energy to make otherr transformers "after the fact" would come from...
Biber Maniac - That’s the point. You could restore power locally or bring in generators, but that’s time passing just to start making them. Meantime, civilization is falling apart.
I have just re-watched this video - and I am still very satisfied with this summary of geomagnetic storms and our vulnerability. The visuals and explanation are really well done.
This is one of the most interesting internet videos I've ever seen in my life. Bravo.
Given 2020 and Social Media, it might even be an improvement.
Won't be as funny when half the population starves to death... until you realize the other half can have a cannibal barbecue, then it's fun again.
Edit: Cannibal Barbecue would be a good name for a metal band
Might?
@@thulyblu5486 , why do you think there is a huge run on guns, ammo, and canned food in the USA? We're getting ready to rumble.
@@Easy-Eight No, they just tend to freak out more than anyone else... and they're nuts.
Yep, the death of social media and perhaps the Internet. Might be a good thing.
I thihk Droid and James May shop at the same shirt store. :)
Or rather, have you ever seen them in the same room at the same time?
@@fitzmode That'd take one hell of a wig :)
Great information! I’ve been talking about Carrington for years, but you provided a fantastic commentary.
This is the first video I have seen on the subject who got the effect on power grids right: it is saturation of the transformers that does the damage.
Saturation occurs in iron core transformers when added current no longer makes meaningful increase in the magnetic flux in the core. When that point is reached the transformer no longer presents a high impedance to the source, so current increases radically. The resulting heating of the wires in the transformer damages the insulation.
Electric transmission lines have protection systems, of course, to protect against faults. If a phase shorts to ground, or a pair of phases short together, the voltage and current sensors report to the protection equipment and let it decide how far away the fault is. Saturation current bypasses them because the fault is on the wrong side of the sensors. At the other end of the line the DC current is having the same effect.
If the line is powered down or is carrying relatively little current nothing bad happens.
(Retired from a Fortune 100 electric utility a couple years ago; supporting protective relaying was the main reason I had to sleep with a duty phone by my head.)
With the sun waking up, the magnetic poles on the move and the magnetic feilds strength on an accelerated decline... I'd say be a good time to prepare.
Mo Mason
All we have to do is say the sun is problematic and it will be canceled, thus saving earth
It already does. Since the 1859 event its been on the move. Check out spaceweathernews.com/
Yeah there was no mention of the mangentic pole shift or the weakening magnetosphere in this at all. Not to mention how much more at risk we are now, going into solar cycle 25 and the sun is already more active!
@@joewilson941 This shit scares me bad. How bad are we talking here?
@@madezra64 if you listen to this people were talking mass instincrion. How ever pole changes happened several times in earth's history. Don't worry nothing will happen during your life time
Paul: Coronal....
TH-cam: DEMONETIZED!!
Paul: ...mass ejection
TH-cam: AIN'T CHANGING IT
Lol he legit is demonetized
What are you doing, writing a script?
Next time try writing a comment like a normal, non-autistic, child.
@@psygn0sis you must be fun at parties.
@@psygn0sis somebody sounds autistic here, and it isn't OP
thank you for this information
i have been attempting to educate two mid-teens on the difference between a CME & an EMP
this episode validates my instruction
Source, different. Result, the same, you're screwed.
One hits this weekend
The transformers are far more resilient than they used to be. For instance if there was a Carrington type event in the UK, a 2013 analysis found that there would be:
* 6 transformers affected in England, 7 in Scotland
* Repair time of weeks to months.
* Some local electricity interruptions of a few hours
* Most nodes have more than one transformer so not all the transformer failures would lead to customers getting disconnected from the power grid.
A 2012 report in the US came to a similar conclusion.
> “NERC recognizes that other studies have indicated a severe GMD event would result in the failure of a large number of EHV transformers. The work of the GMD Task Force documented in this report does not support this result for reasons detailed in Chapter 5 (Power Transformers), and Chapter 8 (Power System Analysis). Instead, voltage instability is the far more likely result of a severe GMD storm, although older transformers of a certain design and transformers near the end of operational life could experience damage, which is also detailed in Chapter 5 (Power Transformers).”
Most power lines would not be affected for the reasons he said, depends on the geology. This map shows the most likely to be affected power lines in the US in bright colours (yellowish white). Knowing that those are the ones to protect electricity companies can take special care over just those ones.
www.quora.com/q/debunkingdoomsday/What-would-the-effects-be-of-a-major-solar-storm-Short-term-local-power-cuts-for-hours-not-widespread-blackout-for-mo
Me: sees Aurora
Me: thinks we're doomed
also Me: Rushes to shove all my electronics I possibly can in the microwave.
If you care, a metal filing cabinet with plastic at the bottom of the drawers works just as well. :P
That and jump in the fridge Indiana Jones style.
One watch point, having put everything in the microwave don't turn it on #justsaying
Bunkers should be shielded with a Faraday cage. That's the reason I just wear a tin foil hat everywhere I go.. And they call me crazy.
MICROWAVE: BoOoOm
Amish people: We are prepared.
well, they are at peace perhaps, which is a different kind of being prepared
Unfortunately a million zombies will overrun you.
I have a 4 cylinder, 31 year old Mazda pick up truck in perfect shape... No electronics, nothing electric, even the windows are manual, lol...
But when the EMP hits, the streets will be mine alone!!! 😁
@@abelis644 What starts the motor?
They rely heavily on kerosene, lamp oil and gas for equipment and chainsaws.
They would manage better, but it would be a shift.
And like the rest of us, they quit spinning and weaving when mass produced fabric came along.
"It’s not the one with your name on it; it’s the one addressed “to whom it may concern” you’ve got to think about."
If the Earth's magnetosphere continues to weaken, we wont need to take a hit from a Carrington level event to lose our electrical grid.
I really like the visualizations! Not just the SOHO timelapses, but the ones done to show magnetic impacts etc, lots of really good ones!
we are not even prepared for a pandemic with low mortality rates imagine for a solar storm
I mean, in all fairness, you can see a CME coming, and it's over in a few days.
@@uzaiyaro To see a CME coming it must be monitored - good luck to the monitoring stations, I hope they have drilled the situations plenty of times, 15 minutes to pass decisions is critical. And don't forget there can be stronger than Carrington Event magnitude, we only have a few hundred years of data. There's info coming out that our star is a long recurrent micro-nova star, meaning we may get a micro-nova every few tens of thousands of years. What happens when the Earth's magnetic field is weakened, Moon? Did you know the strength is 80% baseline of what it used to be for the past thousand years? The magnetic field is weakening at a rate of 5% per decade currently, and due to weaken at a faster rate as time goes. And what about the poles beginning their trek into reversal? The reversal transit is speeding up and the poles will reverse in the next 100-200 years. Meaning the magnetic field will be severely weakened. Not only this, when a strong CME hits it actually increases the speed of Earth's magnetic reversal (see the Carrington Event 1859, this is the year the Magnetic North pole began its immediate reversal direction).
If Americas power companies are half as incompetent as our government, we're so screwed. And just like the pandemic we have known this has been coming for years.
Low mortality rates are why we responded so poorly. It was easy to ignore because it doesn't affect the average person. If Covid had a ~5% mortality rate and mainly affected young people, it would have been squashed out long ago.
Ярослав Л Polio affected millions of young people.
This is a very good reminder of how prepared we need to be for huge CME's. With tech like Starlink coming out, who knows how badly the entire network would suffer if hit by this sort of CME.
Thanks for the video!
We know how badly it would suffer. But the effects of that will be much worse. Large areas offline (electricity-wise and internet-wise) for extended periods of time will be devastating for the people of today.
The way 2020 is going, a massive CME wouldn't surprise me in the least, right after the next, 9.5 subduction earthquake here in the West Coast of Canada...
Marcus House i hope elon musk knows about this
2020 stroking chin: “hmmm, solar storm eh . . .”
2004 to 2020 : Am I a joke to you?
@@T3RRY_T3RR0R 2020 to 2004: Year's not quite over yet . . .😈
"(...) solar storm (...)"
Epic band name.
These storms come from the suns CORONA.
how bad can it get
Thank you for this comprensive explanation of CMEs and their effects. Well done, and highly appreciated...
Enjoying this! As a technician for 41years...best explanation !
I love how a “Carrington Event”sounds like a Video Game Plot set in the Victorian Era where people fight back against Aliens with Steampunk Weapons
😮 Wow
Start writing it down before someone steals your idea ,like me.lol all kidding aside that plot sounds better than 95% of the garbage hollywierd puts out nowadays!🙂💯👍👍👍👍👍
Close. The Carrington Institute DID investigate alien technology in the game Perfect Dark back in 2001 😉
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It was basically the overarching plot of the original assassins creed trilogy.
So in short, Cuba and West Virginia would be the only states with a large amount of cars still running?
😂😂😂👍
Ah yes Cuba, my favourite US state
@@buttersquids Cuba is the best state in the U.S!
Cuba rocks, man. By far the best US state.
I love Cuba, Infact I think it should be it’s own country , because it is so EPIC
This channel is so well done -- jumps straight into the topic with no "Hey TH-camrs!" or "Please Like and Subscribe so you don't miss any of my awesome content!"....with quality content that is professionally scripted, produced, and presented. Kudos to you, Curious Droid.
Thanks for the good report. As regards the risk factor of a big solar flare, I think you should take into consideration the fact that earth’s magnetic field is currently much weaker than it was by end of 19th century and even the 20th century. We are much more vulnerable now due to the magnetic pole changes.
I have to echo that. Our magnetosphere currently is down about 20% and is accelerating it's decline. Also, our magnetic poles are moving and we are headed for a magnetic excursion or reversal. YOU SHOULD HAVE COVERED THIS!!!
THE GREAT SOLAR FLASH ..... i lurv it!!! 3D to 5D
Yes my brother/sister! We are moving to 5d
What you mean?
My buddy said something about this whats it grounded on ?
What is 5D?
@@SgtSteel1 the 5th density... Google 5th density beings
The first 10 seconds is footage from downtown Montreal 😂 Thanks for putting us in your video lol
“Corona” mass ejections that’s the other corona we have to worry about in the near future
whoa.... programming the masses. You're onto something...
Yes, both names come from the word for ring or crown.
@@greensteve9307 Jesus is King
Oh! Wait!
Like a micro nova? A cyclic event of the Sun we are due for again? That will have two parts to it. First is the massive radiation of the explosion from the surface of the sun. Whoever is facing it gets irradiated. The whami comes 18 hours later when the shock wave arrives at Earth. The dust and debris fly by stripping the upper atmosphere and dropping the pressure on the exposed surface causing fires and sudden freeze. I hope I'm dead when that happens.
2020: Write that down! write that down!
Shhh don't give it any ideas, at this rate Russia's gonna invade someone
Yeben01 *China, keep your eyes on the South China sea and Middle East :)
Yeben01 when was the last time that actually worked out for them? 1944?
This is the most detailed and informative report I've seen on CMEs.. Nice!
Wow!!!!!! I cant like the video multiple times!!! It was really intesting!!! Good work!
That is so weird. Less than 5 seconds into the video, I recognize Montreal.
Oh so this is what’s happening in August.
Why do you say that? Are they really predicting one to happen then?
@@timbibin1301 it's because its 2020 and 2020 is 2020
Something new happens LITERALLY EVERY MONTH
Also what happened to murder hornets?
@@zackattack5414 not much, tbh they are mostly harmless to humans, but they could be bad for the wildlife as they don't have natural predators here iirc
I call this phenomenon, the Knowing Effect.
Those maps from USGS are incredible. What an amazing organization.
Beautiful wording and high quality content. Thanks you so much !
I knew the city street view at the beginning was telling me something. That’s Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal!
Only a few minutes ago I was thinking "I wonder if Curious Droid has any new videos?". Perfect timing :)
When I was in college, my astronomy professor told us about how he used to see, every once in a while, Auroras in Central Florida. They would be extremely faint but they were still visible.
Curious, about how long ago was that....as a kid I remember some strange skies....😎
Perhaps in the age of nuclear testing?
There are very, very few places left in the Eastern USA where the night sky isn't polluted with lights from houses, companies, towns and cities. Depending on how long ago that was, your professor may have lived in such an area. Those who have never spent the nights very far from civilization will never know all they are missing in the night skies.
Geez, what a fascinating video. Fantastic images of the Sun and the MCE's. I've known and understand the physics involved, being a physicist, but the motion pictures or CG images really brought the theories and science together for the masses. Good job Curious Droid.
*☼ this is a fantastic entry* i thought i understood these, but i learnt things. nice back to back concepts and examples.
Ahh yes, one of the few squares we haven't filled in for the 2020 Bingo card..... yet.
An interesting topic. When I first learned of the "Carrington Event" I was amazed about how much damage was caused to an extremely, very early electrical grid. Grid is probably the wrong word. Get's the idea across though. I've often wondered how the modern world would hold up? Not so well I imagine. Sun's at minimum for now. Thanks.
Right the Carrington event was a five planet alignment, lining up their plasma tails creating an electric circuit from the Sun, through the Earth. Actually the telegraph batteries did burn out and they worked for months without batteries.. No such alignment is coming, just Venus' plasma tail lining up this year.
Aparently yes, atleast big countries would hold up, smaller countries are the real problem
Arent there 5 planets in alignment now?
@@carso1500 If the US response to the current pandemic is any indication, its the big countries that will fall first.
@@CativaCookie yeah, because the united states has obviously collapsed and it's mad max right now, the goverment has fallen people on the streets are killing each other for what remains of food and water
Grow up, the pandemic is bad yes (people I personaly knew has died because of corona, I myself got sick but got better) but civilización hasnt collapsed and it's actually going just as strong, covid-19 has actually killed less people than many other pandemics, seriously, people live their first quarantine and are already thinking this is the end of the world, shit like this happens every ten years, I still remember influenza h1n1
How prepared were we for a global pandemic, that everybody knew was going to happen sooner or later?
Apparently SUPER well prepared! Overall mortality due to "Pneumonia and Influenza-Like Illness" is exactly in the range of "NORMAL" in Q1 2020. So Well Done everyone! Nothing happened! We survived!!
@@RHYD_ He's a conspiracy theorist. All their parents are related. Getting through to him would be like playing pool with a piece of rope.
@@jameswhite1910 Everyone lost their fookin minds, I don’t think that’s nothing
@@jameswhite1910 Hooray for everyone except those who are dead!
@@Rachel-tz2ls The biggest factor in the COVID-19 pandemic that caused increased mortality was and is the massive disinformation campaign by plague deniers.
The Chinese government tried to downplay the epidemic on its outset, and the American populace did their best to report the rampant reports of infection and death as not happening. It was almost as if someone was pulling the strings of both the Communist Party and the Republican Party to simultaneously act as one.
Was there someone acting behind the scenes? Don't know. Don't care. The biggest factor in the spread of the disease right now are those disinformation agents. They're pulling their own strings, and the primary means of protecting yourself is cutting those strings in any way possible.
I'm just gonna say it. You have the best shirt collection on planet Earth.
Those are 'BATIK' motives isn't it?.
This was wonderfully detailed and informative - cheers!
The 2012 supersolar storm was compared to the Carrington event
Back then it was estimated it would have sent us to stone age because it will destroy all the electric infrastructure
Imagine now in 2020...with all the phones internet etc 🙈
In 2012 we had all the phones internet etc... it was only 8 years ago dude :/
@@krashd dude...in 2012 there were 680 million smartphones sold worldwide compared to 1.517 billion in 2019
@@yamuiemata Do you still have the same phone you had in 2012? Nobody else does.
@@krashd actually I do still have it and it works altho the battery life is dogshit
However you're missing the point in the statistics measurement
Not having Smartphones is not a very good metric of the impact of such an event. You have to look at the growth of cloud services from 2012 to today, and it's massive.
That's where industry data is at, and if data centers go down, that means no orders, no shipments, no production. I've dealt with companies that lost their data, and it's a total nightmare. If everyone looses their data, that's a doomsday scenario.
Any good business must have procedures in place to deal with partial and total loss of their IT infrastructure. This might seem a huge task, but you might print and preserve the current situation once a while (financial situation, all contacts and addresses, production status, etc) and be much better off. You don't want to do it too often, because it's lengthy and costly, but you want to do it at least once or twice a year if you don't wish to be back at square zero with your business when it happens. Because it will eventually happen
2020: write that down, write that down!!
We missed the big one by 9 days on July 23, 2012.
Anybody else think about this ? We have these CME (coronal mass ejections) threat's all the time now and corona virus. See the similarities here?
Great video, well done and easy to understand. Thank u sir.
Thank you. Great presentation and I learned a great deal. Best wishes to you, sir.
How ironic would it be if a solar flare happened while someone was watching this video?
Oh shi-
idk man, it probably won't ha-
It did....
On dragon ball Z
Yes Braiden, or how about this... what if we were to have a strong CME on the U.S. election day (November 3rd?), 2020? All those voting machines, all of those very important votes which will define our future. I think I'll need to not think about that one.
@@Brian-bp5pe
I can totally see that happening, or having tRump ordered EMPs...
Short answer: NO
Long answer: HELL NO
Ultra long answer: HELL TO THE NO
Let’s give a moment and thank the cameraman for zooming across those galaxies to come back to ours
Excellent product, clear explanations of complex topics and natural occurrences totally out of the nands of mankind. Many thanks, another plus for this item is the lack of ridiculous music which adorns so many technical reports.
Glad to see you asking this question. The answer is more than we were 20 years ago. That is the good news, bad news is not nearly enough.
Oh man. Just throw in the apocalypse meteor already 2020. Make it fast.
Just hoping it lands right on me so I don't have to suffer.
Revelations 19:17 predicts this event
Me, an Australian: "Guess I'll die then."
Hi! GMT. Prepare now, while we still have time. Make a rocket stove. We did. Very cheap. Buy some bricks from Bunnings then get on youtube and watch some videos. Really easy. The one we built works like a charm and you only need small bits of branches and twigs to get a roaring fire, if you've built it to specification. Also buy candles, and oil lamps, or buy a metal tool box and put your batteries and torches in there to shield them damage. Best of luck.
Some freeze dried food lasts 25-30 years. It's just nice to have it handy just in case. I live in Alaska and avalanches can easily trap us in our little town or knock out the power for days or weeks.
Most people here are decently well prepared for these sorts of things, but if you're in an Urban area.....damn dude you'd be in a bad situation.
Guys relax, this isn't gonna happen until at least September.
Lmao 😂😂😂
Underrated lmao
It'll be Trumps fault undoubtedly.
Like your humouros time line.😳😀😃
Uh oh that’s tomorrow
Great video Paul. I must admit that when I saw the title of this video I didn't feel very attracted to the topic and ended clicking on it without much enthusiasm. However, as I went on watching I got more and more fascinated thanks to your excellent content creating skills. Great job!
Hearing that the operators got shocked is HILARIOUS! Aside from any injuries.
December 21, 2020. Those who know, know 😉
Brittani Williams I can 100% agree that there will definitely be a shift in human consciousness...everyone seems to be waking up at alarming rates, won’t be the same after.
Noah De Ark I agree!!! ✨✨✨✨
Preparedness is a tradeoff of costs: How expensive is it to be prepared considering the frequency of the event vs. how expensive it is to deal with the aftermath. I hope people in positions of responsibility for this specific event are doing their math right, but regardless of that history shows we are better at responding reactively than proactively, to put it nicely.
Everyone is always "no we're not ready" and I'm always over here "hell yes I'm ready"
2020 has been a damn good year for me so far
*so far*
@@saffroncoasts6950 Still pretty awesome, only a few weeks left...
This is by far the best science channel. Never any click bait, never any pretentious bs. It’s just great. My day is always better when you put up a new video. Seriously though, I watch the other channels but they always, ALWAYS find a way to tick me off. This channel has no politics either. Isn’t amazing how scientists all think they’re politicians? There is no place in science for politics and this channel is the only one that doesn’t push politics. I love that. We should demand that from scientists. Get politics out of science. Please.
Best solar flare/CME video I've seen.
2020: this is not even my final form..
I always expected to see a Carrington level CME in my lifetime before a global pandemic. Mother Nature loves to throw curveballs and a massive CME is due. Yikes!
2025 is the height of Solar activity this cycle 😅 hopefully it misses us....
How are we overdue, in 2012 a carrigton sized event missed us.
@@justapersonz5441 I was referring to an 1859 type Carrington level event striking the Earth.
This is scary to think about but with the proper set of skills, planning and living outside of major cities there’s a chance you could live through it. The ones that really scare me are the volcanos like Yellowstone, that shit pops off and everything on the planet is doomed and anything outside a certain radius is gonna die a slow and painful death.
As a man of science I always thought it amazing that before the advent of electricity people had to watch TV by candle light.
Great stuff, very informative.
Earth: we got the corona
Sun: Hold my beer
The Carrington event was pretty minor in terms of solar flares, it could be far worse and devastate the world when it happens next.
Nice!
Intro video is from Sainte-Catherine Street, Montreal, Canada. Nice place to visit, when able!
Visiting Montreal and going to an Alouettes game is something I'd like to do one day
Yet another reason to invest in solar.
Looks like we made it