So I just wanted to say that this is literally my absolute favorite channel on RUclips. I love putting on the huge playlist of all your videos in the background and toying around with ksp. I like how concise, yet informative, each video is, and the excited "Oh my god, space is the coolest!" attitude with which you present them. It's also refreshing to learn new facts and the latest space news, without a lot of opinion-based commentary, or rehashing old information that we already know. Thank you for your consistent, quality work. Please never stop! :D
Question: How easy would it be to learn how to repair a transformer/actually repair one if it explodes? It seems like it might be something worth studying for that ever-important post-apocalyptic hypothetical
I would like to inform everyone that a study published in June of 2019 has, in fact, deduced that superflares are indeed possible from the sun; as similar events were seen from 43 superflares from stars around the same age and similar size of that of our sun.
No phone, no lights, no motor car, Not a single luxury, Like Robinson Crusoe, It's primitive as can be. So join us here each week my friend, You're sure to get a smile, From seven stranded castaways, Here on "Gilligan's Isle."
Don't be so sure that shutting down the power grid would save it. During the Carrington event there were multiple instances of telegraph circuits continuing to work after the batteries had been disconnected.
We already have protections against geomagnetic storms. There are many points in the grid designed to be able to be disconnected to reduce the impacts of these events.
You would assume that it was only in southern Queensland or they would have used an example that sounded more impressive like 'the tropics'. Impressive none the less
A transformer on our farm blew up and my grandfather put it out with a water hose. The firemen arrived with CO2 jets and all this fancy equipment but just stood there in amazement as they watched him put it out with water and not care about the high voltage that could kill him. Their official statement was “it took some balls to do that.”
A theory gaining momentum nowadays is that a giant solar flare could have ended the last ice age around 9600 BC, at that time sea level rose up to 60m swallowing millions sq km of land.
Would it protect us and actually be feasible to shut down all electrical sources and devices while the flair is going on? How long do these flairs usually last? Also would it work to shut down the satellites and push them a but further out into space for a little while?
@@sneakylemon8513 Woah! How did you end up getting into that, and how's that been going? (and you wouldn't have happened to learn anything more about CMEs, would you?)
@anoyint I've decided that I want to be a highschool maths teacher but I'm going for the route of doing an undergrad in maths and then I'll do a higher certificate in education afterwards. The astronomy is just to fill up credits and because I think it's fun. And yeah I did. Last year I did a whole module on the structure and evolution of stars. I also live near the South African National Space Agency where they study solar weather and I've enjoyed going on tours there.
Just watched it. I really like the effects at the end, but I do wonder what kind of energy it'd take to get that outcome, and whether it's a probability or not.
If the Carrington event happened today. Planes would loose their position, possibly many of their electrics, satellites would almost certainly be toast. likely the entire global electric grid would also be wiped out. it would be catastrophic in many ways. safest places would be those near the equator.
I have a question on this. Would there be a notification that a flare was produced, and would I have enough time to unplug electronics to minimize damage? Or would it be pot-luck on whether or not is survived?
Depends on whether are not it was directed at Earth or a glancing blow. Most solar flares take a few days to hit the Earth. Gives us time to prepare for radio blackouts (affecting aviation). If you really want to know more about this i'd suggest visiting Suspicious Observers on youtube. He produces a daily news update on all space weather and weather around the planet.
I wonder how microgrids with renewable local power would work in these events. I assume people could disconnect from the grid and run on internal power just fine.
2:28 Mobile phones, wireless credit cards and paying for gas all rely on satellites? Really? What happened to cell towers, the good old internet and transoceanic cables? This isn't the first time that SciShow has claimed that the internet & mobile phones RELY on satellites. Sort it aat!
There are many email chains and fake news and stuff that recommend to "Shut down our cellphones in the case of a solar flare/solar storm" or because "one is coming". Would that help? I mean, would that at all save the device or does it even matter whether or not it is on or off??
i hope someone can answer this for me, so if we had another “Carrington Event” how would world leaders and countries broadcast and attempt to warn everyone of the spread of COVID-19? Fall 2019 through July 2020 has put the world in a very fragile state. The thought of an impending catastrophic CME is surreal and terrifying.
That's why people should live mean work in day light atleast for less than hour or a few minutes (generally it's lunch break ) so that they may be used to heat temperature that's emission by sun maximum in day time. That's heat resistant or say resistance.
Is a carrington event similar to an EMP then? I mean sure EMP is made out of nukes, but they both knock out electronics. Can we protect satellites then using EMP protection?
An EMP would affect a much smaller area and act for a very short time; a solar flare can last much longer and affect if not the whole planet, at the very least everything in the day-side.
in some places it was even bright enough to read in the middle of the night 1:25 is not right it should be the middle of the day as it makes sense that you would see it during the night
A bit overblown to say all those technologies are satellite based. We do have communication satellites but most internet communications are by cable. The geosynchronous satellites are far enough away that communications through them have very high latencies which are a problem for the triple handshake tcp protocol of the internet. Also, the internet was specifically designed to reroute around failed links during nuclear war, that was why it was created. Even the cell phone reference is ridiculous, very few cell phone connections go over satellite links, they relay to phone networks and though it's true that some phone links go over satellites, it isn't part of the cell phone networks except for sat phones which are not cell phones. A solar flare would cause geomagnetic surges in lines running long distances mostly north south over terrain with poor conductivity and since we would have about four days notice before the particle stream reaches Earth, vulnerable systems could be idled or shut down. Yes, we are more dependent on technology today then during the Carrington event but unless our power and communication operators ignore the warning signs for four days straight, we're not vulnerable to such an event.
gamma ray bursts are the ultimate assassins. Since they travel at the speed of light (or pretty darn close), by the time you see one, it'll be too late
If that's what it takes. The power grids used today are immensely outdated and wasting extreme amounts of energy. See all those "boxes" on the floor under your desk, that connects to your devices and to an electrical socket? Yeah. Those are ALSO converting the electricity that your house receives from the transformers, because almost nothing in the average home needs that much power anymore.
Don’t be afraid to call Solar wind for what it is - electrically charged ions whose acceleration is caused by the potential difference of a electric field which creates the measurable spiraling magnetic fields - these are Called Berkeland Currents which cause the northern And Southern Lights.
I really hope this happens within the next month because in December I have 5 exams within 3 consecutive days, 2 of which are at 8 am and I'd rather the whole world just end.
4:10 - Two different things. The telegraph system was DC and had no path to earth - unlike our modern, grounded AC systems. Yes, induced currents into the hot leads are a risk, but no more risk than an electrical storm presents.
Didn't light bulbs continue to glow even though the generators were unplugged as well? (as in, the electromagnetism generated currents in the electrical network)
So, is induced current (voltage) in power lines caused by solar flare itself and it's charged particles, or fluctuations in earth's magnetic field caused by solar flare?
Imagine if we got a solar flare that did this, and we knew about it, and we just had to turn off all our electronics for a week. I swear the world would fall into chaos. You wouldn't even know when the power would be coming back on because you wouldn't be able to get any news.
Hypothetically, if we had an event such as this and it hit say the US, what would happen to the other side of the earth? Say China? Would their grid also suffer due to the radiation or would it mostly be shielded because it didn't take the brunt?
I think there would be an impact due to Earth's magnetic field ringing due to the impact of the flare; I'm not sure how much less worse it would be than on the day-side though.
You should do a bit more research into just how much of the power grid has built in hardening and fail safes to shut itself down to help save it after the results of the Starfish Prime nuke tests.
There would be another solar storm as strong as the carrington event in 2025. It has 0.12% chance of hitting earth, and it can cause blackouts for months or years if it hits earth
I wonder the same thing. They connect to land-based base stations. Granted, those may get fried. Or their timekeeping, necessary to keep their receive and transmit frequencies and time slot synchronisation, may be GPS based. So, no more telephony or cellular data. And obviously, the satellite-based positioning will stop working. But the phones themselves? Should be fine.
Shouldn't we start to at least stock up on powerline transformers just in case to restore at least the basic functions of electricity like heating and flowing water?
mikesum32 This link should explain it: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/what-happens-if-gps-fails/486824/ They should have explained it in the video.
Hang on, I saw a programme about the effects of a massive solar flare... They said the best way to cope is to have all electrical circuits open, not closed, because then the surges could spread out and would not cause localised overloads.... True, or not?
NoJusiticeNoPeace - That's a surprising amount of vitriol over a rather innocuous comment. But that's not why I'm commenting. There are objective reasons for OPs comment strategy, ones which I think are worthy of actual discussion, which I''m sure you will appreciate. (The fact that you see his comments everywhere attests to his strategy) The root of the problem IMO is RUclips's comment structure. The comment section has been evolving over the past few years into an important public medium for discussion. There seems to be the desire for these discussions to be more long-term and substantial; and yet the way the comment section is set up hinders this. If you have any hope of having your comment seen by more than a handful of people, thus actually generating a real discussion, you have to either be one of the first to comment and hope it gets enough upvotes, or trying to hijack the existing top comments (like I'm doing here). I think research should be done on how various comment structure implementations across the internet (reddit, newsgroups, etc.) impact the characteristics of those discussions. We should aim for one which promotes vibrant discourse. This has nothing to do with the original post or your response really, but it is something which has been on my mind for a while (obv) and hopefully being on the top comment thread will help more people to see it.
There are some theories people have pulled from old history records / storys and physical evidence that talk about "archs' of light from the sky setting the ground a blaze / melting mountain tops. a superflare could cause the earths magnetic field to discharge down to earth as some evidence / stories seems to indicate..
if that 500 year solar storm hits earth would it affect the power supply just ad much as in the eu, because the power sytems are often better than in the US
Honestly, the same kind of damage would occur if a nuke was blown up in the upper atmosphere... And those are more readily available too... Aside from the obvious radiation, and heat energy from a nuke, it’s EMP is especially dangerous.
The sun is 99.86% of the mass in the solar system, almost all of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn. That means that the Earth is just a tiny dust mote orbiting about 100 solar diameters away from the sun.
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"Damage from an angry sun" sounds like a good band name.
Josh Zytkiewicz I'm going to publish an album about the sun's magnetic field some day. I already have a lot of the details worked out.
Luke Hanson I also got some ideas :-D
Boo
Known as dfas
Album Name Solar Flare Tantrum
So I just wanted to say that this is literally my absolute favorite channel on RUclips. I love putting on the huge playlist of all your videos in the background and toying around with ksp.
I like how concise, yet informative, each video is, and the excited "Oh my god, space is the coolest!" attitude with which you present them. It's also refreshing to learn new facts and the latest space news, without a lot of opinion-based commentary, or rehashing old information that we already know.
Thank you for your consistent, quality work. Please never stop! :D
This is why I watch the Internet by candle light.
alexander williams I just watch TV by candlelight. Not gonna affect me.
Real overachiever there
alexander williams i'd assume internet & TV requires usage of electricity which would be rendered obsolete during/after the solar flare.
AntiMessiah I think you missed the joke there buddy.
And here I am watching the candle by phone light
Well, I always said that those Transformers should have been shut down after part 2.
Please explain how a transformer is shut down. How do you simply shut down a single electronic component ?
ProCactus C4
Word. There never should have been a Transformers 3.
Why, At least it can actually be turned off.
I always said that those Transformers should have been shut down before part 1. ;)
I could see something like this being the start of the apocalypse.
It’s not, it’s a start of a new era. Stay healthy and strong and clear minded and spiritual to survive.
Da Gr8 outders Heyy Can you give more information? I’m kinda panicking 😂😂 watchin Tik toks and they say December 21 something is gonna happen
Ricardo Neri look up on youtube spiritual So and vondoocut you get all the info you need. Look up endgame parody by Vondoocut. Very detailed vid.
Da Gr8 outders ik i seeen em
If you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse, just remember it could always be worse!
*THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*
3C Kitani not anymore theres a blanket
biscuit boi5876 the earth is in a sock in rice
So is the moon and several stars
*We should make a religion out of this*
the history of the entire world i guess
'Geostorms... can cause all kinds of trouble'.. like horrible, horrible movies.
I saw that one, it was funny.
Knowing?
I loved knowing
Downside: End of civilization
Upside: I won’t have to go to work anymore
This didnt pop up in my subscription feed, but im glad I visited the channel
Question: How easy would it be to learn how to repair a transformer/actually repair one if it explodes? It seems like it might be something worth studying for that ever-important post-apocalyptic hypothetical
you mean we wouldnt have internet?
DESTROY THE SUN
Agreed. It must be done.
GENIUS!!!!
If we don’t have the internet then how are we supposed to do netplay? I’ll have to actually go to my locals to play Melee 😱
Dat ain't Falco!
deadly lazers are deadly
I would like to inform everyone that a study published in June of 2019 has, in fact, deduced that superflares are indeed possible from the sun; as similar events were seen from 43 superflares from stars around the same age and similar size of that of our sun.
Channel called suspicious0bservers has some great (or incredibly alarming) views on micronovae. At some point, we're goosed 👍
dammit.
No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It's primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friend,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castaways,
Here on "Gilligan's Isle."
"but recent papers suggest that the sun isn't capable of super flares."
sun: hold my helium
Don't be so sure that shutting down the power grid would save it. During the Carrington event there were multiple instances of telegraph circuits continuing to work after the batteries had been disconnected.
Straight outta wikipedia, huh?
We already have protections against geomagnetic storms. There are many points in the grid designed to be able to be disconnected to reduce the impacts of these events.
I love how he says Queensland, but doesn't mention the country. I live here in QLD and I would love to see an aurora.
He should've said "Northern Australia" or the "Australian outback"
+DraxTrac
I'm pretty sure the outback is the central part of the country.
And QLD is a massive state. Would it be seen in Brissy, or Cairns? That’s a huge distance
You would assume that it was only in southern Queensland or they would have used an example that sounded more impressive like 'the tropics'. Impressive none the less
“It didn’t do much damage” - WTF??? The only thing electric was the telegraphs and they went up in flames dude.
A transformer on our farm blew up and my grandfather put it out with a water hose. The firemen arrived with CO2 jets and all this fancy equipment but just stood there in amazement as they watched him put it out with water and not care about the high voltage that could kill him. Their official statement was “it took some balls to do that.”
Would a cme delete my savings account
hard to say. It would for sure screw all kinds of stuff up.
I hope it deletes all my debts
Good luck on getting that to happen.
antiisocial
This would become, the least of your worries.
A theory gaining momentum nowadays is that a giant solar flare could have ended the last ice age around 9600 BC, at that time sea level rose up to 60m swallowing millions sq km of land.
When he said “it could be worse”
I felt that.
Would it protect us and actually be feasible to shut down all electrical sources and devices while the flair is going on? How long do these flairs usually last? Also would it work to shut down the satellites and push them a but further out into space for a little while?
For the first question, I think it varies but the carrington event lasted 8 hours
@@anoyint haha aww it's so funny seeing a comment of mine from 6 years ago. I've since started studying a BSc in maths and astrophysics 😂
@@sneakylemon8513 Woah! How did you end up getting into that, and how's that been going? (and you wouldn't have happened to learn anything more about CMEs, would you?)
@anoyint I've decided that I want to be a highschool maths teacher but I'm going for the route of doing an undergrad in maths and then I'll do a higher certificate in education afterwards. The astronomy is just to fill up credits and because I think it's fun. And yeah I did. Last year I did a whole module on the structure and evolution of stars. I also live near the South African National Space Agency where they study solar weather and I've enjoyed going on tours there.
If the whole grid went down it would take 20 years to restore.
16 months waiting time for 1 transformer...
Yeah but would it be an Autobot or a Decepticon?
Listening to this because, dec 21, 2020.
The only distaster that day was that it was cloudy and I couldn't see the conjunction.
Ever see “knowing”?.......
Just watched it. I really like the effects at the end, but I do wonder what kind of energy it'd take to get that outcome, and whether it's a probability or not.
That's why I'm here bro, just watched it
could you have an episode about how to protect senitive electronics and especially data storage from solar storms?
It could be worse, we could live around a neutron star.
Or maybe around a pulsar.
@Lenny Lenny Of course... even, even worse.
God took that into consideration before he put us on earth.
Close to 1M... congrats 👏👏
If the Carrington event happened today. Planes would loose their position, possibly many of their electrics, satellites would almost certainly be toast. likely the entire global electric grid would also be wiped out. it would be catastrophic in many ways. safest places would be those near the equator.
I have a question on this. Would there be a notification that a flare was produced, and would I have enough time to unplug electronics to minimize damage? Or would it be pot-luck on whether or not is survived?
Depends on whether are not it was directed at Earth or a glancing blow. Most solar flares take a few days to hit the Earth. Gives us time to prepare for radio blackouts (affecting aviation). If you really want to know more about this i'd suggest visiting Suspicious Observers on youtube. He produces a daily news update on all space weather and weather around the planet.
Vince Aydt Amen
I wonder how microgrids with renewable local power would work in these events. I assume people could disconnect from the grid and run on internal power just fine.
I was watching this and an emergency broadcast test went off and my heart stopped 😂
Heard you on @vox “Today’s Explained”! Keep up the good work!!
The thumbnail looks more awesome than usual
So the lesson is, if something is important, WRITE IT DOWN, because we may need to rebuild civilization someday.
If its important then we will invent it again.
Very interesting. Now i also know what was the carrington event. There is currently a coronal hole facing the earth.
Pretty sure Tien wouldn't try to pull a fast one on us. Or else we'd be blind
DreadMan kiko how ya doin?
SUPER KAMI DENDE
Oh yeah
TY! perfect vid
Such a good speaking voice. 10/10
Thank you
1:13 Colombia is almoust at the equator. Does that mean that auroras were covering the whole Earth.
that's what I was thinking
Was thinking the same
Colombia is actually *on* the *equator*
+Jake
Colombia*
The Long Dark
bergonius That's the first thing I thought of! Lol, great,now I have to go back into that long dark....
My favorite game!
penis
we'd be human toast
Good to know dude, I'm kind of a space geek.
Omg, no, we won't be! Our electronics will.
2:28 Mobile phones, wireless credit cards and paying for gas all rely on satellites? Really? What happened to cell towers, the good old internet and transoceanic cables?
This isn't the first time that SciShow has claimed that the internet & mobile phones RELY on satellites. Sort it aat!
Disguised Toast
Hahahaha lol your funny haha
Enjoy your guys info ..
There are many email chains and fake news and stuff that recommend to "Shut down our cellphones in the case of a solar flare/solar storm" or because "one is coming".
Would that help? I mean, would that at all save the device or does it even matter whether or not it is on or off??
i hope someone can answer this for me, so if we had another “Carrington Event” how would world leaders and countries broadcast and attempt to warn everyone of the spread of COVID-19? Fall 2019 through July 2020 has put the world in a very fragile state. The thought of an impending catastrophic CME is surreal and terrifying.
Well it's here
What would happen to hard drives? Would a metallic pc case be able to protect anything?
edge21str nooope.
TY for video
Helping the algorithm find a cool video
No mention of the 2012 CME or did I miss it?
A right combination of moonlight and atmosphere scattering can also make a very lit night.
MAD MAX style? .. Well... if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the fury road!
Ill race ya for fuel. Im going to wrap my motorcycle in foil. Might need couple rolls..
You had me at mad maxx pandemonium!
That's why people should live mean work in day light atleast for less than hour or a few minutes (generally it's lunch break ) so that they may be used to heat temperature that's emission by sun maximum in day time.
That's heat resistant or say resistance.
Is a carrington event similar to an EMP then? I mean sure EMP is made out of nukes, but they both knock out electronics. Can we protect satellites then using EMP protection?
An EMP would affect a much smaller area and act for a very short time; a solar flare can last much longer and affect if not the whole planet, at the very least everything in the day-side.
Sun: hits earth with solar flare People: 🖕😐🖕 you sun
What the hell
in some places it was even bright enough to read in the middle of the night 1:25
is not right it should be the middle of the day as it makes sense that you would see it during the night
A bit overblown to say all those technologies are satellite based. We do have communication satellites but most internet communications are by cable. The geosynchronous satellites are far enough away that communications through them have very high latencies which are a problem for the triple handshake tcp protocol of the internet. Also, the internet was specifically designed to reroute around failed links during nuclear war, that was why it was created. Even the cell phone reference is ridiculous, very few cell phone connections go over satellite links, they relay to phone networks and though it's true that some phone links go over satellites, it isn't part of the cell phone networks except for sat phones which are not cell phones. A solar flare would cause geomagnetic surges in lines running long distances mostly north south over terrain with poor conductivity and since we would have about four days notice before the particle stream reaches Earth, vulnerable systems could be idled or shut down. Yes, we are more dependent on technology today then during the Carrington event but unless our power and communication operators ignore the warning signs for four days straight, we're not vulnerable to such an event.
gamma ray bursts are the ultimate assassins. Since they travel at the speed of light (or pretty darn close), by the time you see one, it'll be too late
Hale and Bopp shared the glory. It should be the Hodgson-Carrington Event.
Hey Reid it’s Mica’s sun oh congrats for hitting 1M
If that's what it takes.
The power grids used today are immensely outdated and wasting extreme amounts of energy. See all those "boxes" on the floor under your desk, that connects to your devices and to an electrical socket? Yeah. Those are ALSO converting the electricity that your house receives from the transformers, because almost nothing in the average home needs that much power anymore.
Don’t be afraid to call Solar wind for what it is - electrically charged ions whose acceleration is caused by the potential difference of a electric field which creates the measurable spiraling magnetic fields - these are Called Berkeland Currents which cause the northern And Southern Lights.
Good to see some people understand.
I really hope this happens within the next month because in December I have 5 exams within 3 consecutive days, 2 of which are at 8 am and I'd rather the whole world just end.
Would be so cool to be hit by a solar flare and see the auroras!
4:10 - Two different things. The telegraph system was DC and had no path to earth - unlike our modern, grounded AC systems. Yes, induced currents into the hot leads are a risk, but no more risk than an electrical storm presents.
Didn't light bulbs continue to glow even though the generators were unplugged as well? (as in, the electromagnetism generated currents in the electrical network)
So, is induced current (voltage) in power lines caused by solar flare itself and it's charged particles, or fluctuations in earth's magnetic field caused by solar flare?
Imagine if we got a solar flare that did this, and we knew about it, and we just had to turn off all our electronics for a week. I swear the world would fall into chaos. You wouldn't even know when the power would be coming back on because you wouldn't be able to get any news.
You should always keep candles in the house and have a gas burner at the ready (if you're not already connected to gas) ;).
Would affect storage units like hard drives?
if we were to unplug computers from the powergrid , so that the psu doesnt get fried by the input voltage exploding , wouldnt it still fry the pc ?
2:08 most subtle joke ever about erectile dysfunction?
It's a reference to their name's, is what it is.
shhhh...I know...
Nice.
Freud wants a word with you.
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Hypothetically, if we had an event such as this and it hit say the US, what would happen to the other side of the earth? Say China? Would their grid also suffer due to the radiation or would it mostly be shielded because it didn't take the brunt?
China isn't on the other side of the earth from the USA. Just saying. Good question, though.
I think there would be an impact due to Earth's magnetic field ringing due to the impact of the flare; I'm not sure how much less worse it would be than on the day-side though.
My, my, Reid is sooo handsome ❤
Would it wipe/screw up hard disk or solid state/flash drives?
no
Is this episode especially made for John's eschatological anxiety? 😂
The universe is electric
This cant come soon enough
Be careful for what you wish for .
You should do a bit more research into just how much of the power grid has built in hardening and fail safes to shut itself down to help save it after the results of the Starfish Prime nuke tests.
There would be another solar storm as strong as the carrington event in 2025. It has 0.12% chance of hitting earth, and it can cause blackouts for months or years if it hits earth
0:25 Not if, but when.
His eyes are so dreamy
What would a Carrington event do to solar powered homes, etc?
How exactly are cellphones satellite based. I mean, more than landlines or the internet?
I wonder the same thing.
They connect to land-based base stations. Granted, those may get fried. Or their timekeeping, necessary to keep their receive and transmit frequencies and time slot synchronisation, may be GPS based. So, no more telephony or cellular data.
And obviously, the satellite-based positioning will stop working.
But the phones themselves? Should be fine.
Shouldn't we start to at least stock up on powerline transformers just in case to restore at least the basic functions of electricity like heating and flowing water?
Bug: Satellites sometimes fall on people when the sky heats up.
Solution: We are aware of the issue and will release a patch next maintenance period.
Only GPS uses satellites. Credit cards and cellphones still use wires in the ground, either conducive copper or optical fiber.
mikesum32 This link should explain it: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/what-happens-if-gps-fails/486824/
They should have explained it in the video.
mikesum32 all lot of inter-cell traffic, esp inter-city, is satellite.
4:16 Crazy Voice Crack!
I feel a disturbance in the force🔥
Hang on, I saw a programme about the effects of a massive solar flare... They said the best way to cope is to have all electrical circuits open, not closed, because then the surges could spread out and would not cause localised overloads.... True, or not?
4:30 "Mad-Max style pandemonium" you mean playing Dig Dug and fighting Demodogs?
(Who gets this reference?)
everyone i hope
Omg thank you
NoJusiticeNoPeace - That's a surprising amount of vitriol over a rather innocuous comment. But that's not why I'm commenting.
There are objective reasons for OPs comment strategy, ones which I think are worthy of actual discussion, which I''m sure you will appreciate. (The fact that you see his comments everywhere attests to his strategy)
The root of the problem IMO is RUclips's comment structure. The comment section has been evolving over the past few years into an important public medium for discussion. There seems to be the desire for these discussions to be more long-term and substantial; and yet the way the comment section is set up hinders this.
If you have any hope of having your comment seen by more than a handful of people, thus actually generating a real discussion, you have to either be one of the first to comment and hope it gets enough upvotes, or trying to hijack the existing top comments (like I'm doing here).
I think research should be done on how various comment structure implementations across the internet (reddit, newsgroups, etc.) impact the characteristics of those discussions. We should aim for one which promotes vibrant discourse.
This has nothing to do with the original post or your response really, but it is something which has been on my mind for a while (obv) and hopefully being on the top comment thread will help more people to see it.
Master Therion madmax is good at Dig Dug but for fighting demodogs you need eleven
Mad Max is a mouth-breather
There are some theories people have pulled from old history records / storys and physical evidence that talk about "archs' of light from the sky setting the ground a blaze / melting mountain tops. a superflare could cause the earths magnetic field to discharge down to earth as some evidence / stories seems to indicate..
2:57 That's one way to test RUclips's compression, dear lord... ._.
In the country i live in, it doesn't take a solar flare to kill a transformer. Just a few angry squirrels can do the job easily.
if that 500 year solar storm hits earth would it affect the power supply just ad much as in the eu, because the power sytems are often better than in the US
Honestly, the same kind of damage would occur if a nuke was blown up in the upper atmosphere...
And those are more readily available too...
Aside from the obvious radiation, and heat energy from a nuke, it’s EMP is especially dangerous.
The sun is 99.86% of the mass in the solar system, almost all of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn. That means that the Earth is just a tiny dust mote orbiting about 100 solar diameters away from the sun.
points for perspective.