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Solar flares don't have to hit the earth, I don't know if it would even be observable if it was ejected from the opposite side of the sun to Earth. Maybe they travel so slow and stay bright that it would be observable by the time Earth came around enough on its orbit to spot the ejected mass? But on the other hand such an event I assume would be observable on the suns surface even on Earths side of the sun in some form I guess(?) Edit: My point being a response to the points about solar flares being visible or dangerous to life on earth assuming the flares would hit Earth.

Another out-there theory is that earth has been dislodged from its orbit and is slowly moving away from the sun.

huh i thought they mentioned a close miss on earth causing us to move farther and father away from the sun

Well, frostpunk was coal, frostpunk 2 oil, I think frostpunk 3 will be fission

00:13 Mmmmmm can feel the stress of my 1st playthrough great storm incounter come right back to me Evry time that music starts

i think it would stay cold because the earth would be covered in ice or snow which would reflect sunlight and make it stay cold

I think that the Great Frost in Frostpunk is at least, on some part, artificial combined with the other likely causes like the large amounts of Volcanic eruptions You do find mentions of something called the "Saffron Cloud" in the first game's endless mode and if I remember correctly, everywhere on Earth dropped to -50C as the new base temperature of the planet. What I think is that this Saffron Cloud was some kind of agent that kept aerosols in the atmosphere from breaking apart, essentially locking the weather into place. And right as it was released, either on purpose or by accident, the eruptions happened, sending enormous amounts of particulates into the air that thanks to the the Cloud, are staying there permanently, altering the climate of the planet so that -50 C is the new standard

There is also the potential that the great storm sucked some carbon out of the atmosphere and allowed for more cooling

Remember the age old revolver technique: twist your elbow to absorb the RECOOOEEELLL

The games always reminded me of Snowpiercer. Although in that movie the world's froze because a chemical was sprayed into the atmosphere to cool the planet down and it worked too well

The whole game reminds me of the year without summer but on way bigger scale and due to the earth becoming a snowball it reflected way more light causing the temperature to be low but stable

Personally i think it would have been a perfect storm as eruptions are mentioned in a few of the events and if the sun ejected a small amount away from the visible section of it a by just enough that it is now just a little bit cooler along with a massive amount of volcanic ash and other substances from either a few volcanos or a lot of volcanos ( one may have triggered another) cooling the planet although considering that robots exist that are steam powered it is safe to say that it uses a slightly different physics system than our universe

There are historical records of periods of unusually warm weather in ages prior to industrialization followed by periods of colder than normal temperatures for extended periods of time. We also have records of unusually colder temperatures that coincide with "solar minimums.". Two particular sonar minimums that have been studied in the past were the Dalton and Maurander minimums. The latter occurred in the 1400's and is somewhat well documented as it coincided with an extended period of far lower than normal sunspot activity (as recorded by Chinese records). This minimum was so severe that we have records from London when people celebrated an ice festival because the Thames river froze completely solid. The festival was held in AUGUST.

for some reason i thought the earth got pushed further from the sun

Bro we are a couple months from 2025 can we get more updated maps when you talk about it and use real world grafts as an sample. Also FP 2 video please. Oh a dyson sphere can increase the suns life but it will increase the heat so earth would get hot or to hot to live. Cold air is more dense and smoke and co2 gets stuck lower to the ground so maybe all the smoke from all the burning is increasing the effect by reducing the sunlight.

There is the theoretical idea of “poisoning” a star with large amounts of heavy elements. At a certain point, it takes more energy to fuse elements than is released. This is what happens at the end of a star’s life. So if a particularly large exosolar asteroid made of lead and uranium (perhaps from the core of a dead star?) were to intersect the sun, it might disrupt core fusion enough to reduce its output.

Now that I think about it, the aliens are one of the best tracks Imagined a species not caring about the terrestrial biosphere and wanting to exploit the earth. Freezing our world could be a great option. Block the sun, recover the energy and let the cold freeze anything that could have caused problems. And once the ground is frozen, remove the solar blocker and colonize. The cold will trap viruses and bacteria, killing animals and plants that could have been dangerous and saving a war against an unknown species on their home world. The only problem is that it would be slow and would not work on a too technologically advanced species.

There's also galactic dust. The solar system oscillates up and down through the galactic disc, so it's feasible to consider that it sometimes travels through "thicker" parts of the galaxy, and that "thickness" - the ambient dust and gas that eventually accumulates to create new stars - could become a bit of a fog between the earth and the sun. Some speculate on this as part of the cause for the various incidents of "Snowball Earth" in the distant past. So rather than the simple comet theory from the video, the idea would be an interstellar fog, some remnants of which might manifest as meteors that strike the Earth, but mostly would just cause a general dimming of the sun. It would also last a _very_ long time. Although the volcano theory also works. The first Frostpunk was set in 1887, and Krakatoa erupted in 1883. If Krakatoa triggered some additional volcanoes (similar to the volcanoes that helped finish off the dinosaurs after the meteor impact), that degree of atmospheric ash could easily cause a global cooling.

Huh, interesting theory! I had never thought of this before, thanks for making a video explaining it!

i thought it was because a super volcanoes erupted the after effect caused a super cooling of the planet, very likely leading to a ice age we get to live through in game

A thiught i had was if the frospunj universe took place on an older earth which is the reason for the ludicrously abundant coal literally everywhere before mining started and as a result the frost is a result of the uranium and so on decaying less and less in the planet menaing less heat.

I recall frostpunk having lots of volcanic activity which could have initally caused it my other thought is that steam cores generate impossible amounts of energy given there fuel supply and even appear to not actually require fuel given that we have cases of automatons runnign continuosuly walking in circles for years without refuel and in sorm cases remaing functional. As well as stuff like the wall drill not taking any fuel. I wonder if the explanation for the cooling is just that whatever magic powers the steam cores pulled the power from ambient heat or something. The other thought is the volcanic activity awoke some kind of storm monster or something since by frostpunk 2 we have whiteout storms lasting month which are far colder than a normal seasonal shift in temperature ~60° despite being unrelated to seaosn or time of year and it is an even greater relative shift whne you remember that the temperatuees in frostpunk are a bit closer to absolute zero so it is a larger relative drop in energy.

I really like the research done for this video I honestly think not even the authors know the cause, just like in the tv series "LOST" they made up the mystery first and have no idea on how the solution will look like. If I had to guess I would say something on Earth itself, maybe someone was trying to make a doomsday weapon and it went wrong.

This short got me thinking of the movie Sunshine. One thing I did notice is during one of the Frostland expeditions is the mention of splitting atoms (You can find a entry log during a doomed expedition). Makes me wonder if Oppenheimer or Einstein (Or their equivalent) will play a part in a DLC or Third game.

For context, I read somewhere a nice article that before radioactivity was described by Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the only known source of heat and light were chemical reactions. On the other hand amounts of fossil fuels indicated that Earth was more lush and hotter in the past. That led to an idea that sun was getting colder and would eventually literally burn up its fuel. Radioactivity changed entire worldview in that regard, moving aging of the sun into a timescale that is much more optimistic for humanity. I guessed authors of Frostpunk just built the story on the ideas from victorian era before discovery of radioactive decay and processes. Fictional worlds are great playgrounds for scientific reasoning though and this one was awesome 👍

the temperature is the same in the entire planet. unless the sun exploded; it can't make that happen.

I mean, snowball earth existed, if enough of the planet is covered in snow and ice, it reflects more light meaning it gets colder. It could be that they observed a REALLY bad solar minimun, that + vulcano + whatever else leading to a feedback loop. even after the suns back to normal

Its kinda like in Nine Sols, the fusang used solar energy to power the island but it enveloped the sun and plunged the Earth into an ice age

I always thought it was due to volcanos coating the atmosphere with a layer af ash that made it so less heat got through

I don't think it is aliens building a dyson sphere or swam around the star, as there are plenty of other stars, but inhabitable planets are likely very rare. What I can imagine being possible, is that something like a cloud of dust or a swarm of asteroids has been caught by the suns gravity. It could also be possible, if we want to stick with aliens, is that they caused my assumed event intentionally, to kill of native live, then remove what is blocking the sun to let the climate return and settle there themselves. They might not even want to remove it, as such temperatures and climate might be better suited to them than what we have now.

I know this is extremely old, but why 9 bullets? Where did you see this? Is it mentioned in the game? Ocelot used the Israeli reload the first time; in other words, saying he had 9 bullets is contradictory, since with the Israeli reload, they left the chamber empty. I don’t think it’s common, at least in games, to use a number of bullets greater than what the weapon holds. The Makarov has a magazine that holds 8 rounds. I admit I don’t understand anything about this subject, and that’s why I’m here. But to have 9 bullets in a gun, you either load the bullet manually by opening the bolt and putting the ammunition on top - which is impossible or almost impossible with the Makarov - or you load the gun with a normal magazine, shoot 7 times, and leave one in the chamber. Then, you load it with a magazine of 8 rounds. Isn’t that how it works? As far as I remember, in other games, it’s always like this: in Call of Duty, Far Cry 2, STALKER, etc. How are you going to load a gun with 9 bullets when its magazine only holds 8?

Im no scientist, but i keep up with the news and...i thought we had fusion reactors, the issue wasnt heat and pressure but efficiency, being able to get more energy out than what is put in. I mean, if heat and pressure were the issue fusion would have been a problem too

To be fair, the air in the stratosphere is veeery dry, so if it were to descend down to the surface (somehow), it would have warmed up due to (approximately) adiabatic compression a lot. Assuming the tropopause height of 11 km, dry lapse rate of 9.8 kelvins per km and tropopause temperature -56 d. Celsius, it would've warmed up to -56 + 11*9.8 is approximately 50 degrees Celsius. So yeah, no cooling, but quite the opposite

Tension rises trust falls -20C

I have to say, I don't like how there is no reference to Celsius here.

The only thing that saves this attempt of "FROSTPUNK IN SPEHSS" is the Soundtrack, not even the hard science gets it right 😂

Thank God he said it, i about lost it

really nice video! Would the information revealed in the Frostpunk QnA affect this? such as the part on a single global temperature, which explains the reason why the generators were built in the north at least.

Best youtuber because you mentioned unreliable narrator. Literally no one else thinks that things people say in games can be inaccurate to the lore

man that is one NASTY vtuber model

3:03 oh my god another exfor fan

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well reasserted, decently entertaining... yes... this is worth a subscribe.

Given FP2 is out. They have whiteouts, weeks long storms wirh 100kn winds at -80C Wonder what causes those ..

The coal thing makes no sense seeing as it's based on the Victorian British empire. There is a lot of coal in the UK

Another thing that adds to the value of seed arks is medical applications. Certain species might not be medically useful now but two hundred years down the line useless plant 4563 might actually produce the enzyme needed to combat the next black death. Also imagine the timeline where the Penicillin fungus goes extinct and it's properties never get discovered.

The thing that amazes me most about the great storm is how halfway through it's not snowing ice. it's snowing _dry ice!_ Like Imagine a snowflake lands on you and instead of a chill followed by wetness it starts steaming as it sublimates on your skin leading you with a chill so severe it _burns._

The sun seem hotter than it was in the 90s