The Carrington Event | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @FatCherub007
    @FatCherub007 3 года назад +4596

    As an Australian who in the last year who has experienced 1 in 100 year droughts, fires, floods, mouse plague, and pandemic, I am now expecting this in the next few days.

    • @luvondarox
      @luvondarox 3 года назад +77

      Mouse plague?

    • @annapercy6002
      @annapercy6002 3 года назад +29

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

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean 3 года назад +142

      @@luvondarox You don't wanna know. Mice have exploded, literally blanketing entire swaths of civilization. They chew people and animals up alive, and can destroy anything in their path. Mice and rats are the worst creatures on the planet, and in large numbers, they can cause widespread devastation.

    • @absolarix
      @absolarix 3 года назад +64

      Don't forget the locust swarm

    • @MunoMuno2010
      @MunoMuno2010 3 года назад +3

      It seems to be a year for it !

  • @kazza6078
    @kazza6078 3 года назад +1600

    If anyone finds themselves anxious about the overdue Carrington storm, an event of this size happened in 2012 and missed the earth by 9 days. It could still happen again, but "the big one" isn't necessarily due any day. It made me feel better, I hope it helps you if you need it.

    • @CamelliaCorn
      @CamelliaCorn 3 года назад +113

      exactly! ive been telling ppl 2012 was a near miss when we talk ab apocalypse scenarios. its surprising not many ppl know. If it happens only a week or so earlier, we'd have quite a huge set back

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 3 года назад +51

      How did it miss the earth by 9 days?
      I don’t understand what you mean that. Could you please explain it to me? Thank you

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 3 года назад +73

      Maybe that was what the Mayan calendar was predicting lol

    • @CamelliaCorn
      @CamelliaCorn 3 года назад +124

      @@prepperjonpnw6482 the spot of the storm on the sun barely rotated away from earth. if it happens earlier when it wasn't rotated, we wouldve been hit

    • @mjolnirswrath23
      @mjolnirswrath23 3 года назад +21

      Yeah ...go look at the sun right now and our 21% diminished magnetic field strength.... problem is today, ALL your " smart " devices WILL catch fire, and we are more due for a charlamagne event... following many Carrington events ,go look at SOHO...then tell me by the way if you haven't noticed this week we got direct shots from CMEs ..3 of them

  • @GeneralDisarray666
    @GeneralDisarray666 3 года назад +4283

    Me: Oh wow a rare Fascinating Horror vid where no one dies
    Fascinating Horror: So this pissed Rail conductor shoots 3 birds dead
    Me: Ahhh there it is

    • @lek0mania
      @lek0mania 3 года назад +59

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

    • @NearlyH3adlessNick
      @NearlyH3adlessNick 3 года назад +58

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

    • @peka__
      @peka__ 3 года назад +46

      @@NearlyH3adlessNick
      So being nice to each other is the nature of humans - and killing each other came with civilization?
      You might want to rethink that, mate.

    • @NearlyH3adlessNick
      @NearlyH3adlessNick 3 года назад +47

      @@peka__ Nah, sorry I wasn't clear, I just meant war then was a lot less total destruction scorched earth kinda mentality.
      Killing has been in our blood probably since we dropped the gills, hatred for one another because of physical, cultural and religious differences is a little newer.

    • @laserfist1201
      @laserfist1201 3 года назад +25

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

  • @dennishill676
    @dennishill676 Год назад +1166

    I think most of us missed the real amazing part of this story. Anyone that can can be half awake and shoot three birds with a pistol is super human.

    • @briankimmel1149
      @briankimmel1149 Год назад +24

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

    • @Rottidog68
      @Rottidog68 Год назад

      @@briankimmel1149 ... while sitting in it!

    • @phattjohnson
      @phattjohnson Год назад +42

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

    • @boa1793
      @boa1793 Год назад +21

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

    • @zackhenderson2392
      @zackhenderson2392 Год назад +29

      @@boa1793 you do realize this was in the 1800's and not yesterday right? It was common for most families to own a firearm back then.

  • @LisaBowers
    @LisaBowers 3 года назад +1815

    Fun fact: We came extremely close to experiencing a Carrington Level Event in 2012. There was a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on July 23, 2012. It missed the Earth by roughly nine days.

    • @crispylith9558
      @crispylith9558 3 года назад +292

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

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 года назад +218

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

    • @FailingArtist
      @FailingArtist 3 года назад +21

      I remember that!

    • @StephanieSpielberg
      @StephanieSpielberg 3 года назад +208

      I remember this! Everyone was so freaked out at the thought, but I was 14 so I didn’t understand the severity. Now I’m sat here after seeing my country’s reaction to a pandemic and I’m shitting myself at the thought of another carrington event haha

    • @obZenism
      @obZenism 3 года назад +7

      @@crispylith9558 it would have been, yeah

  • @hopiepink
    @hopiepink 3 года назад +581

    I did a research project on solar flares, more specifically The Carrington Event when I was in grade 8 and no one thought it had actually happened! People (including science fair judges & teachers) thought it was just an urban myth, despite the weeks of research I had done and evidence I presented. I am so happy that you have made a video about this, because if something were to occur like this today it would be bad news - that's probably an understatement.

    • @kevo3341
      @kevo3341 3 года назад +45

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

    • @healinggrounds19
      @healinggrounds19 3 года назад +47

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

    • @rodpettet2819
      @rodpettet2819 3 года назад +17

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

    • @whitedragoness23
      @whitedragoness23 3 года назад

      @@kevo3341 would the person be able? Or be seen as some psychic who “predicted” an event and want to know what’s gonna happen next?

    • @janicesullivan8942
      @janicesullivan8942 3 года назад

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

  • @franklind.roosevelt7416
    @franklind.roosevelt7416 2 года назад +157

    It is incredible the amount of electricity that was just sort of bouncing around in the atmosphere. The idea of turning something’s power supply off and it just running off what it was conducting from the air is really incredible even if it is kind of terrifying to imagine this happening now

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec Год назад +25

      It doesn't bounce. It was a massive stream of charged particles hitting the Earth. Any long piece of wire will act as an antenna and pick up a current induced by the changing magnetic field of such a large current. The bigger the wire, the more it picks up. So telegraph lines, which span hundreds of miles, are able to pick up a very substantial current for as long as those charged particles keep coming.

    • @domsquaaa4323
      @domsquaaa4323 Год назад +1

      .

    • @JustBadGrammar
      @JustBadGrammar 17 дней назад +1

      I've had dreams and written stories about an aurora that lit and powered the world... I was a wee lass when I had those dreams and wrote those stories, and had no idea about the Carrington Event, nor did I understand anything about auroras or the activities of the sun. So... I'm just excited that the thing that I thought was just some subconscious and fantastical thing actually happened.

    • @mariecolette170
      @mariecolette170 10 дней назад +1

      @@JustBadGrammarwow that is incredible! Seriously! I wonder what exactly is your connection to this event, because to me it does sounds like you are connected to this event somehow, maybe you’re related to someone who witnessed it, is 8-28 your bday, or the area where you were living at the time of the dream stood witness to this event? Soo cool

    • @JustBadGrammar
      @JustBadGrammar 9 дней назад +1

      @@mariecolette170 Just pretty little dreams and stories. Fanciful coincidence.

  • @VorpalStorm
    @VorpalStorm 3 года назад +3830

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

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +269

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

    • @5ynthesizerpatel
      @5ynthesizerpatel 3 года назад +192

      @@tindaloxxii6513 - exactly - because politics has nothing to do with how the world runs and how major threats and crises are handled.
      PS. I'm guessing you made your overly sensitive comment because you realised you bet on the wrong horse but can't quite look yourself in the eye and admit you you were conned - so the natural response is to get defensive.
      I want to tell you that it's ok - you were sick of liars - we all were - so you rolled the dice on a bullshitter.
      Perfectly natural
      Even though it nearly ended up destroying the country

    • @TheLittlered1961
      @TheLittlered1961 3 года назад +118

      @@5ynthesizerpatel Who ended up almost destroying the country? It was the governors with the endless lock downs that are reeking havoc on the economy. It was congress that passed the idiotic stimulus bills. Yes I know that Trump signed 2 out of the 3 bills. It was Joe that signed that last and least necessary bill with so much pork in it and had little to do with covid. Only 10% of the last bill had anything to do with covid. Lastly blame the American people demanding the stupid bills. We are at fault for tearing down our economy. There is no such thing as free money.
      Lastly, if Trump lied so much, name 5 big lies he made. I do not want to hear opinions he had like covid would disappear by April, that is an opinion. I also do not want to hear about puffery he said. I want big real lies. The press and the dems lied like hell. Russia gate, Covington kids and more.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +37

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

    • @rdean150
      @rdean150 3 года назад +121

      @@TheLittlered1961 There are so, so many to choose from, but here is a random assortment of the first that come to mind:
      1) Trump repeatedly took credit for the Veterans Choice program. He touted this "accomplishment" countless times during his 2020 campaigning, going so far as saying that the then-deceased Vietnam vet John McCain failed to get the bill passed, and that Trump himself succeeded at passing it. In reality, John McCain was the key Republican Senator behind the Veterans Choice bill, which passed in 2014 and was signed into law by Obama.
      2) Trump claimed countless times that he had a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) and that he would always protect people with pre-existing conditions. In reality, his administration advanced a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court that specifically argued that the ACA's protection for people with pre-existing conditions was unconstitutional and should be voided. In his entire four year term, he never once produced even an inkling of a healthcare plan to replace that protection.
      3) Trump incorrectly claimed that Alabama was was likely to be hit by Hurricane Dorian, when the state had already bern ruled out of all forecast predictions. NOAA had to issue a public statement advising panicked residents of Alabama that they were, in fact, not in danger. This would have been an innocent mistake (albeit the kind a President should never make), had he admitted his error and corrected himself. Instead he doubled down on his false claim, hosting a national press event where he presented a printed NOAA forecast map that had been modified with a Sharpie to show Alabama inside the forecast path. This sort of tampering with and presentation of falsified weather forecast documents is a crime, and he committed it in front of a national audience. Trump then ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction from NOAA for their public statement that had corrected his original false claim. After this political pressure, NOAA did publish an unsigned letter in support of Trumps claim, which directly contradicted their original statement. This prompted an outcry from meteorologists and multiple formal investigations by NWS which found that two NOAA administrators had twice violated the organization's scientific integrity policy by issuing the retraction statement. I won't go into the multiple false claims that he repeated many times regarding Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico, but I urge you to Google it.
      4) Trump repeated a variety of false claims about his administration's tax bills. He frequently claimed that he "eliminated the estate tax", claiming that this would substantially benefit family farms and small businesses, which was not true. His tax law simply raised the threshold at which the tax was incurred. And even before his law, only 0.15% of estate tax revenue was paid by family farms and small businesses. He also claimed that his tax changes saved people making 75,000 per year saved an average of $2000 in federal tax. In reality the average was about $800, and about 9% of households in that salary range ended up owing MORE in taxes as a result of his tax law changes.
      5) "No quid pro quo", "it was a perfect call", and Trump's many other denials that he had pressured top Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, including ousting the appointed US ambassador Marie Yovanavich. This includes a litany of violations of his oath of office and false statements regarding investigations into Burisma, Trump's overseeing of the efforts of Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine, the withholding of millions of dollars in congressionally-designated support funds from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, sharing of classified national security information with Russian diplomats, an attempted cover-up of official conversations with foreign leaders in which Trump attempted to advance corrupt arrangements, and his violation of whistleblower protection policies. This stuff has all been investigated thoroughly at this point (which wasnt hard because a president's actions and statements are almost all documented and archived for the official records), and a highly detailed timeline of events can be found at just security dot org. These are not partisan allegations, they are established, documented facts.
      And this is just the tip of a very very deep iceberg.

  • @nightrunnerxm393
    @nightrunnerxm393 3 года назад +2583

    Just a note: the aurora are not _both_ referred to as "Aurora Borealis." AKA "Northern Lights." That's only for the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere's aurora is the Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights." The Aurora Borealis is more famous, but that's largely because it's more accessible. The Australis is mostly only visible in Antarctica and a few places in southernmost Australia or Tasmania.

    • @jaygee404
      @jaygee404 3 года назад +92

      Educational and informative

    • @angelicaapperson950
      @angelicaapperson950 3 года назад +52

      I was going to comment this info, glad I'm not the only one that knows of the Southern Lights. I'm a fan of Auroras in general, I think it's really cool that other astrological bodies/planets have them as well. Seems kinda obvious that they wouldn't be unique to Earth, but I really want to see how they manifest, if/how they differ in color spectrum than Earth's Aurora events.

    • @nightrunnerxm393
      @nightrunnerxm393 3 года назад +16

      @@angelicaapperson950 Sorta make the general lack of progress in spaceflight really frustrating, doesn't it? Sure, we might be able to see it in a picture from a probe, but it's a whole different thing to see it in person.

    • @angelicaapperson950
      @angelicaapperson950 3 года назад +3

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

    • @nightrunnerxm393
      @nightrunnerxm393 3 года назад +4

      @@fahey5719 Really? Huh. Cool.

  • @motherofvermin
    @motherofvermin 3 года назад +2291

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

    • @madeliner1682
      @madeliner1682 3 года назад +12

      nice pfp

    • @samgafford2371
      @samgafford2371 3 года назад +32

      It is what it is

    • @jsteinman
      @jsteinman 3 года назад +119

      At least we can take a pandemic off the list

    • @janew2108
      @janew2108 3 года назад +14

      Ignorance is bliss.

    • @SoulDevoured
      @SoulDevoured 3 года назад +63

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

  • @emilyhoward6538
    @emilyhoward6538 6 месяцев назад +30

    I just referenced this video last week to my brother who had never heard of the Carrington Event. Low and behind I’m back again after this weekend’s solar storm. So cool.

    • @MrClubfoot90
      @MrClubfoot90 6 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah, the current solar storm brought me here.

  • @KodasGarden
    @KodasGarden 3 года назад +1303

    The phrase "we're overdue" stopped being scary when I realized just how many things we are "overdue" for. Almost like not every single thing in the universe runs on an atomic clock. We're not overdue, it will happen eventually no matter what, whether that was 2 years after the event or 200.

    • @unchargedpickles6372
      @unchargedpickles6372 2 года назад +124

      I prefer to think of it as we've been really really really lucky the past 10,000 years overall. Cause everything will eventually try to kill us but in general we've just been super lucky to be mostly left alone in ways it matters and it's allowed us to thrive as a species. As with all good things they eventually come to an end and will...someday...but not today so yay for today! Lol

    • @HeritageWealthPlanning
      @HeritageWealthPlanning 2 года назад +33

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

    • @zacharysherry2910
      @zacharysherry2910 2 года назад +4

      @@HeritageWealthPlanning lol

    • @Allen-R
      @Allen-R 2 года назад +8

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

    • @Lawrence_Talbot
      @Lawrence_Talbot Год назад +28

      Yeah seriously. Since I was the kid, I’ve constantly heard “the world is going to end in 5 years unless something changes!” Well 30 years later nothing has changed yet we are still here and there are still idiots claiming the world will end.

  • @Me16768
    @Me16768 3 года назад +336

    When I was 16 we flew over the North Pole and got a great view of the northern lights. It was an incredible experience, but I knew what it was. I can only imagine if that showed up for a week over my small Georgia town in the 1800s. No doubt a lot of Bible reading cramming for finals.

    • @Whatlander
      @Whatlander 3 года назад +40

      "cramming for finals" omg

    • @senorpepper3405
      @senorpepper3405 3 года назад +6

      well said

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 года назад +2

      It didn't affect the electronics of the plane?

    • @Survivor-mf1nm
      @Survivor-mf1nm 3 года назад +2

      finals 😆😆

    • @alexr3430
      @alexr3430 3 года назад

      Bs. Commercial flights dont go over the north pole

  • @chefbonecrusher7980
    @chefbonecrusher7980 3 года назад +295

    Small correction but you can safely say aurora - aurora borealis is northern lights and aurora australis is the southern lights.
    Just say aurora it refers to the phenomenon as a whole rather than a specific region.

  • @Lady_A.R
    @Lady_A.R Год назад +7

    I just found your video now. THANK U !! 🙏🌅❤️✝️🛐❤
    I have been suffering with chronic headaches and fatigue. I just came out of ICU on the 29th of June (spent 6 days). My BP and the wild pains I had that week were unbearable.
    And right now, this morning, I woke up to that very same feeling the week of June 29.
    None of my pain relievers are helping now. Might have to return to the hospital. I hope not.
    I am relaxing now. And will plug my ears but not before watching this video again and sending it out to everyone.
    God bless you and your family.
    🙏🌅❤️✝️🛐

  • @PeteTheWargamer
    @PeteTheWargamer 3 года назад +4323

    I don't think there are any channels where I can say that I've watched every single video. With the exception of Fascinating Horror, of course, which continues to put out compelling and interesting content.

    • @WestonEvans
      @WestonEvans 3 года назад +33

      I’ve procrastinated on watching a few and every time I end up watching them I ask myself what took me so long

    • @aihnen93
      @aihnen93 3 года назад +13

      I woke up at 5am and saw he uploaded and wanted to watch it right then. But my partner would not have enjoyed it as much as me 😂

    • @rockydify
      @rockydify 3 года назад +25

      Agreed. This is the only channel I’ve literally seen every video and eagerly await the new ones.

    • @davidcermak9822
      @davidcermak9822 3 года назад +6

      @@gradeabutt I am still on my way with Fascinating Horror. But at the moment I feel same about Lemmino and BarelySociable :D

    • @yuvgotubekidding
      @yuvgotubekidding 3 года назад +15

      Well watch them now before we lose power.

  • @Necrotheos
    @Necrotheos 3 года назад +2912

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

    • @SummerAlleriaWindrunner
      @SummerAlleriaWindrunner 3 года назад +69

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

    • @miked7212
      @miked7212 3 года назад +48

      An event that can end the planet now as well.

    • @bunnyluver2176
      @bunnyluver2176 3 года назад +14

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

    • @miked7212
      @miked7212 3 года назад +36

      @@bunnyluver2176 yeah lol try telling that to the US Republicans though. They're the ones mainly that don't want to do ANYTHING about it. Just look at the way US Republicans act because of global warming. They don't care about global warming. They only care about profit at the expense of global warming.

    • @cavemanlovesmoke4394
      @cavemanlovesmoke4394 3 года назад +42

      @@miked7212 no such thing as global warming. Its the season's of earth. Won't be the first time nor the last that we got an ice age or whatever happens this time around. Its just how earth evolves over time and it is what it is.
      We humans really are so arrogant to think this planet needs us and that "climate change"/"global warming"/ whatever, is a bad thing (it is for us tho lol) . Besides this shouldn't be politically charged it should be non-partisan. If u want to say repubs are ignoring this tgen democRATS want to move us into a communism and think the green new deal is actually possible and not a terrible stupid idea . None of this even matters anyway , has nothing to do with our planets weather . U think we in America are so bad huh ? It's funny cuz we are so low on the scale we got nothing even close to the pollution that China , by itself puts out . Ijs

  • @Japhet_
    @Japhet_ 3 года назад +633

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

    • @Wildstar40
      @Wildstar40 3 года назад +23

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

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 года назад +28

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

    • @ghostcityshelton9378
      @ghostcityshelton9378 3 года назад +19

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

    • @rubym9107
      @rubym9107 3 года назад +12

      Right? :( unnecessary!!!

    • @1three7
      @1three7 3 года назад +6

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

  • @pedrowhack-a-mole6786
    @pedrowhack-a-mole6786 2 года назад +302

    I happened to be sleeping in my car in March 1989, as luck would have it, during the most severe solar storm since The Carrington Event. The light was so bright it woke me up so I could witness the aurora over New Jersey. The reds, blues, and greens were vibrant and lit up the northern and north-western sky. I didn't find out what happened till much later while reading an article about the severity of Quebec's massive blackouts, and how some satellites were disrupted. There was also a space shuttle in orbit at the time that was minimally affected.

  • @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838
    @alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838 3 года назад +4307

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

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 3 года назад +96

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

    • @jarrodbarker5050
      @jarrodbarker5050 3 года назад +2

      These? 🖕🖕🖕

    • @cavemanlovesmoke4394
      @cavemanlovesmoke4394 3 года назад +22

      All they had to do was STFU lol

    • @medjeds
      @medjeds 3 года назад +56

      @@Sashazur shotguns. or whatever guns were used in the 1850s- they would be definitely able to kill a few birds that are close to eachother.

    • @jonp3890
      @jonp3890 3 года назад +43

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

  • @Black-Swan-007
    @Black-Swan-007 3 года назад +773

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

    • @ddddoc7078
      @ddddoc7078 3 года назад +101

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

    • @FizzieWebb
      @FizzieWebb 3 года назад +48

      if it makes you feel any better, we're also like a hundred thousand years overdue for the magnetic poles to completely shut off for several millennia to allow Earth's magnetic shield to recharge while the magnetic poles reverse polarity.

    • @greenapple9477
      @greenapple9477 3 года назад +35

      @@FizzieWebb And at some point now, the supervolcano at Yellowstone is supposed to erupt. I'd rather die by natural disaster than because of say, someone stabbing or shooting me because I insulted them or they were just racist/sexist.

    • @dangerjoe8911
      @dangerjoe8911 3 года назад +25

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

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 3 года назад +19

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

  • @annalevy4335
    @annalevy4335 3 года назад +219

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

    • @Justin.Martyr
      @Justin.Martyr 3 года назад

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

    • @doabarrellroll69
      @doabarrellroll69 3 года назад +7

      @@Justin.Martyr alright then.

    • @babecat2000
      @babecat2000 3 года назад +7

      @@Justin.Martyr paranoid nut.

    • @bevoss7573
      @bevoss7573 3 года назад +11

      @@Justin.Martyr
      Math not meth

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 3 года назад +2

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

  • @KyrosTheWolf
    @KyrosTheWolf 3 года назад +4954

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

    • @BourbonInhibitions
      @BourbonInhibitions 3 года назад +275

      And don't you forget it.

    • @cathyl7944
      @cathyl7944 3 года назад +314

      Yes, we’re problem solvers.

    • @LouBloom21655
      @LouBloom21655 3 года назад +95

      It's how hillbillies solve problems

    • @Lady.B0420
      @Lady.B0420 3 года назад +47

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

    • @ryanakatrainlover
      @ryanakatrainlover 3 года назад +66

      @@LouBloom21655 aint that the truth

  • @jhoags92
    @jhoags92 2 года назад +582

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

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 Год назад +27

      Hardly random, he had an observatory in his house!

    • @scheve332
      @scheve332 Год назад +20

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

    • @compookiie
      @compookiie Год назад +3

      Almost like a cool story, like with the masons

    • @KeillaSellay
      @KeillaSellay Год назад +8

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

    • @GameDevMikey
      @GameDevMikey Год назад +14

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

  • @cal2686
    @cal2686 3 года назад +800

    Hey, Fascinating Horror, I know you probably get tons of requests and you probably won't see this, but I'd like to suggest the New London school explosion that happened in Texas. It happened not far from the town I grew up in but barely anyone knows about it, I would love to see you cover it and maybe bring some recognition for the victims?

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 года назад +44

      I'm from connecticut, never heard of it but I would like to see it covered. So important to remember the victims, hope he considers doing it!

    • @Emil-nm2qf
      @Emil-nm2qf 3 года назад +45

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

    • @melissamarsh2219
      @melissamarsh2219 3 года назад +22

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

    • @tillitsdone
      @tillitsdone 3 года назад +21

      There''s a book about that, "Gone at 3;17." What a sad and terrible tragedy. It's the reason residential natural gas now has a that foul odor added to it.

    • @gobillz6895
      @gobillz6895 3 года назад +14

      check out the Bath Michigan Schoolhouse disaster

  • @kristeno1982
    @kristeno1982 3 года назад +1120

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

    • @emperormajestybiggzigg5174
      @emperormajestybiggzigg5174 3 года назад +15

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

    • @blondwiththewind2598
      @blondwiththewind2598 3 года назад +2

      😆

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +6

      What about the pandemic?

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +15

      @@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 tell that to india

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +32

      @@emperormajestybiggzigg5174 sorry sir. I know people that have died from covid. I just had to console a co worker, her grandmother, that raised her, just died of covid.
      Take care

  • @DaedalusYoung
    @DaedalusYoung 3 года назад +1459

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

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 года назад +7

      nice your comments are right next to each other.

    • @nolongerusing7430
      @nolongerusing7430 3 года назад +66

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

    • @yongyea4147
      @yongyea4147 3 года назад +23

      Is your kitchen on fire
      It's an aroraborialis

    • @yongyea4147
      @yongyea4147 3 года назад +17

      At this time of day?

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 года назад +18

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

  • @paulgee4336
    @paulgee4336 2 года назад +87

    Read the novel "One Second After", a 2009 novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. It's most likely fairly realistic about what would happen with an EMP attack or a Carrington-like Sun event in modern times.

    • @honuswagner9348
      @honuswagner9348 Год назад +11

      I've read that trilogy twice (One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day). It really made aware of just of fragile our electric system is. It is a great read, although the author seems to lose steam after the first book.
      That being said, our country is far more prepared for EMP/CME issues than the book would have us believe. I recommend reading some reviews of the book to understand more of that 🙂

    • @Q5Grafx
      @Q5Grafx Год назад +2

      theres a good film also called 22 after.

    • @SevenLimes
      @SevenLimes Год назад

      Such a good series 😍😍🤙

  • @joeg5414
    @joeg5414 3 года назад +675

    Sadly, I have little hope in a worldwide coordinated response that would result in the best case scenario. It would be an absolute cluster f*** hampered by bickering politicians trying to figure out how they can benefit most from the disaster.

    • @petermitchell6348
      @petermitchell6348 3 года назад +33

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

    • @Microtherion
      @Microtherion 3 года назад +25

      That hardly sets him apart from the last half a dozen or so. (Obama was a different story, I guess). It is a bit of a worry how there's so little pretence, even, that their function has any meaning any more though. I honestly have the feeling that, regardless of all our technological advances (including those which are killing us), the level of corruption and dumbassery today means that we're *less* well-placed to cope with any serious natural disaster than we were 200 years ago. We're probably just going to have to hope that the general instinct for survival is stronger than the 'elite's' instinct for endless avoidance of responsibility and rewarding themselves for failure...

    • @Val.Kyrie.
      @Val.Kyrie. 3 года назад

      Sounds familiar.

    • @JoseyWales44s
      @JoseyWales44s 3 года назад +21

      @@Microtherion "Obama was a different story, I guess". I guess you're right. Anyone who can get a Nobel Peace Prize for merely being elected President must be as awesome as he thinks he is.

    • @Microtherion
      @Microtherion 3 года назад +18

      @@JoseyWales44s Lol. I'm guessing you're a Republican, but actually that's perfectly true. He was in the middle of bombing the crap out of Pakistan - which is a *U.S. ally*. When you can wage open warfare on your own allies, and over 90 per cent of the casualties are civilians, and you still get the Nobel Peace Prize, something's not quite right, is it? (I said he didn't have dementia, and was even quite bright - I certainly didn't say he was doing really good things...)

  • @VanK782
    @VanK782 3 года назад +330

    Aurora Borealis is the phenomenon in the north, in the southern hemisphere there's Aurora Australis, they have separate names
    Collectively they're sometimes called polar lights

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 года назад +2

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

    • @DaleDix
      @DaleDix 3 года назад +11

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

    • @DaleDix
      @DaleDix 3 года назад +3

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

    • @ghostcrystal7930
      @ghostcrystal7930 3 года назад +3

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

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 года назад +2

      @Scumfuck McDoucheface I've only seen them in a movie that took place in coastal Scotland and even then they were pretty incredible. Can only imagine what it must be like to actually see them above you in the sky

  • @Vpmatt
    @Vpmatt 3 года назад +317

    2:18 "Many people rose from their beds thinking that dawn had arrived." I assume they very happily went back to bed when they realised they had a few hours left. Bonus!

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 3 года назад +12

      How many people had household clocks in 1856? Very few. They didn't come about until late in the industrial revolution. Before then, they were hand-made and expensive. All the average person would have known was the sky was lit, as if dawning, and then went dark but no storm. That would have been very worrying, not the trigger for more sleep. Plus their internal clocks biologically would have told them it was wrong.

    • @marifromky
      @marifromky 2 года назад +2

      @@borderlineiq yup.

  • @TheMarychinoCherry
    @TheMarychinoCherry 6 месяцев назад +31

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

    • @PissedChihuahua
      @PissedChihuahua 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 3 года назад +665

    "We are, by some measures, overdue."
    It's weird how this seems to be the case with regard to *many* potentially disastrous phenomena, such as the eruption of certain supervolcanoes and the reversal of the magnetic poles. It almost feels like we're being set up for *all* the S to HTF at once. But what a glorious drama that would be.

    • @cs40660
      @cs40660 3 года назад +83

      its overdue but most of these cataclysmic events have a rough "due date" and its usually placed within brackets of one hundred thousand plus years, in which our lifetimes are drops

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 3 года назад +34

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

    • @thefisherking78
      @thefisherking78 3 года назад +22

      @@AverageAlien not really tho

    • @fruub
      @fruub 3 года назад +60

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

    • @thefisherking78
      @thefisherking78 3 года назад +9

      @@fruub depends what kind of scientist 😜

  • @mistertamura6190
    @mistertamura6190 3 года назад +1278

    It still amazes me how a director like Roland Emmerich, who specialises in doomsday scenarios, still thinks it’s more plausible to scare people with an ancient Mayan calendar or the god damn moon colliding with earth, than a modern day Carrington event; a scenario which is just around the corner, statistically speaking.

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 3 года назад +12

      Where is the evidence the same happened in 1700? In 1550? In 1400? In 1250? The speculation is too conveniently ominous. No reference or evidence was presented other than "some" estimates. The whole planet seeing aurora at the same time would be present in the annals of many countries from those eras. Where is that evidence?

    • @blacktigerpaw1
      @blacktigerpaw1 3 года назад +50

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

    • @jakual339
      @jakual339 3 года назад +35

      @@borderlineiq It can be tricky to link up things in the historical record with phenomena like the Carrington event, especially since how strong they are might affect how they are experienced. There are lots of historical records of "something weird happened", but what was the cause? A supervolcano on the other side of the world? A meteorite? Solar flares? Or something totally different?
      On the scientific side, researchers have been trying to find a reliable kind of physical evidence of Carrington-style events. Based on tree-ring evidence, there probably was one around 775CE, and another around 993CE. But it's hard to tell what level of event would actually be identifiable through this method. And, of course, it's possible for one of these events to happen, but miss the earth (like what happened in July 2012), in which case there would be no records.
      There's some links under "other evidence" on the wikipedia page, if you're interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

    • @borderlineiq
      @borderlineiq 3 года назад +11

      @@jakual339 Thanks. I'm all for investigation, but want anyone speculating to declare the basis rather than present as facts or suppositions. Evidence is evidence, and the observer must conclude or not the cause.

    • @juanelorriaga2840
      @juanelorriaga2840 2 года назад +16

      @@borderlineiq writings from Roman and China both have said to see lights and colors in the sky but trying to see if these were from the same time is tough

  • @angelfrankenfine
    @angelfrankenfine 3 года назад +222

    when I lived in Alaska, seeing the Aurora everytime is just as beautiful as the first. truly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. truly magical.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 3 года назад +6

      It's definitely on my bucket list

    • @crazytrain7114
      @crazytrain7114 3 года назад

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

    • @marifromky
      @marifromky 2 года назад

      @@crazytrain7114 i'm in central kentucky. if conditions are right and you know when and where to look, you can see them here -- being up high helps.

    • @peterdeane4490
      @peterdeane4490 2 года назад +2

      I lived in Canada's Northwest Territories for a couple of years. I saw the most amazing northern lights while I was up there. I'm still convinced that I could actually hear them hissing on a still night.

    • @joshleenall
      @joshleenall 2 года назад

      I actually saw some sort of Aurora as far south as Alabama some 15-20 years ago, but it was very faint and not large in the sky. #1 on my bucket list is to see the Northern Lights in all their glory with my own eyes one day before I die.

  • @nobody-vo7ei
    @nobody-vo7ei Год назад +102

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

    • @zadekharbat
      @zadekharbat 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @Shadowkey392
      @Shadowkey392 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@zadekharbatdon’t be so sure about that.

    • @zadekharbat
      @zadekharbat 5 месяцев назад

      @@Shadowkey392 im not

    • @RealLordVoldemort
      @RealLordVoldemort 5 месяцев назад +4

      This comment is so naive. You do realise an event like this today would absolutely cripple the entire world? Everything we rely on today is electronic and digital. This would throw economies into chaos. The entire world would be disconnected. Things like electricity would be out. All to fulfill your self satisfaction of seeing people not use social media. I don't use or like social media myself but I don't want to see the entire planet thrown into chaos. Getting people to socialise in person via the collapse of society is not a great thing to wish for

    • @nobody-vo7ei
      @nobody-vo7ei 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@RealLordVoldemortpeople having to face themselves - think, read, meditate, deal with actual issues rather than lather up with more social media entertainment? how dreadful.

  • @plshelpalistair
    @plshelpalistair 3 года назад +668

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

    • @GeekRaj
      @GeekRaj 3 года назад +4

      Aurora of the Boreal valley

    • @bishopkat127
      @bishopkat127 3 года назад +30

      May I see it?

    • @snowfallkin
      @snowfallkin 3 года назад +27

      @@bishopkat127 No

    • @maxrockatanksyOG
      @maxrockatanksyOG 3 года назад +27

      "Located entirely in your kitchen?

    • @dieselscience
      @dieselscience 3 года назад +1

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

  • @TheMissGnat
    @TheMissGnat 3 года назад +67

    Could you imagine failing to prepare for a foreseeable catastrophic event and being kept in the dark for months on end, unaware of its severity until it's too late? Golly I sure hope nothing like that happens to us any time soon 😬

    • @euansmith3699
      @euansmith3699 3 года назад +7

      The Texas Arctic Storm, "Hold my drink."

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 года назад +1

      Nearly happened to Texas. We were literally minutes away from a total shutdown for months. Despite being warned years ago.
      Fascinating Horror, I guess you've got a topic here you can use in the future.

    • @SilveniumTheDrifter
      @SilveniumTheDrifter 3 года назад

      Heh.

  • @savagecomanche
    @savagecomanche 3 года назад +145

    When I left my house this morning I couldn't help but feel like I was missing something and now I know what it was, my existential dread

    • @whoot813
      @whoot813 3 года назад +7

      If it helps, there are places that regularly monitor this kind of activity, known as "space weather". You can even find forecasts with a quick search.

    • @Wildstar40
      @Wildstar40 3 года назад +3

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

    • @madameshadow357
      @madameshadow357 3 года назад +1

      Don’t leave home without it.

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 года назад +1

      I think I found yours.

  • @tombstonechess2231
    @tombstonechess2231 Год назад +32

    I think this really would just round out everything my generation has had to go through so far. Global pandemic, several global economic collapses, record setting weather and disaster events, let's just go ahead and tack on a decade long vacation into the dark ages. Fantastic.

    • @AS-qg1xu
      @AS-qg1xu 7 месяцев назад

      Covid was nothing

  • @chrisackerley1842
    @chrisackerley1842 2 года назад +243

    My mother's family settled in West central Wisconsin in the early 1840's. Oral history on that side of the family is there appeared to be two events over the course of several days, one came from the West, the other from the East. One thing is certain. It made a BIG impression on my ancestors.

  • @donutchan8114
    @donutchan8114 3 года назад +393

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

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 3 года назад +32

      Because it requires money, and they never want to spend money until tragedy strikes. Look at Texas earlier this year. They were warned years ago and did nothing.

    • @j.d.e.7416
      @j.d.e.7416 3 года назад +3

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

    • @YuumiGamer1243
      @YuumiGamer1243 3 года назад +1

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

    • @j.d.e.7416
      @j.d.e.7416 3 года назад +7

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

    • @rgarito
      @rgarito 3 года назад +17

      One days' notice?!?! In America, preparation for a Carrington Event would require 10 committee meetings, 200 hours of debates, 4 votes, a filibuster, and the decided-upon solution would be to condemn the sun for it's actions... (and before anyone gets butthurt, I am an American!)

  • @benbriggsmusic
    @benbriggsmusic 3 года назад +53

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

  • @Brenelael
    @Brenelael 2 года назад +25

    This happened again on March 13th, 1989 albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It was however enough to cause major power disruptions in Canada and some other countries closer to the Arctic Circle. During about a 4-5 day period after the Aurora was clearly visible as far south as Florida and Texas. This wasn't on the scale of the Carrington Event but it was an event just the same. Just because the Carrington Event was so bad doesn't mean it's that bad every time it happens. 1989 was proof of that.
    The 1989 event is also how we came up with that 150 year estimate. The truth is that for a flare to hit us it has to originate from less than .01% of the Sun's surface. What this means is when the sun flares there is less then a 1 in 10,000 chance it will come our way. Also Flares vary greatly in intensity so for that flare to be a Carrington level flare makes it even rarer of an event.

  • @Ikuconodule
    @Ikuconodule 3 года назад +304

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

    • @SolstaceWinters
      @SolstaceWinters 3 года назад +7

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

    • @ikaros4203
      @ikaros4203 3 года назад

      LMAO

    • @jacobwhelan45
      @jacobwhelan45 3 года назад

      Fascinating horror: We are due for this potentially apocalyptic event to occur
      RUclips comments:

  • @erinlin7
    @erinlin7 3 года назад +159

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

    • @bickyboo7789
      @bickyboo7789 3 года назад +3

      Faraday cages are pretty useful for saving electronics.

    • @PeterMilanovski
      @PeterMilanovski 3 года назад +4

      You are screwed if you live within reach of a nuclear reactor! With it's computers taken out! There's going to be a lot of countries that are going to be turned into a wasteland!
      It's one thing to get a country re-started after such an event which is going to be bad enough as it is! But a nuclear disaster clean up is going to take much longer! I could be wrong but I believe that Fukashima is still being cleaned up today! And even after all the so called cleaning, I wouldn't trust raising children on that land as they are the most susceptible to radioactive radiation!
      Let's just hope that this day never comes!

    • @1977Yakko
      @1977Yakko 3 года назад

      @@bickyboo7789 Saving what? Your phone or computer? With no network, what good are they? Your refrigerator or heating and AC unit? With no power grid, they useless as well. The list goes on. Hopefully there are safeguards in place on major infrastructure like the power grid or internet networks but things like trucking which distribution networks depend on to get food on the shelves would likely be destroyed.

    • @mikelouis9389
      @mikelouis9389 3 года назад

      @@bickyboo7789 Got one big enough for a car?

    • @Stand_Tall
      @Stand_Tall 3 года назад +1

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

  • @annieeames2282
    @annieeames2282 2 года назад +22

    That sentence... "We are, by some measures, overdue" gave me CHILLS more than any other video I've seen in years. Great video! Love all your videos.

    • @OfficialJuke
      @OfficialJuke Год назад

      Me rents overdue

    • @NineEyeRon
      @NineEyeRon Год назад

      We just had a smaller level event in early 2023

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 3 года назад +554

    In fact we had a Carrington-level event as recently as 2012...thankfully, it missed striking the Earth by something like only 9 or 10 days due to the positions of the Earth and the part of the Sun that sent out a coronal mass ejection...now THAT is pretty damn close and it makes me wonder how many near misses we have

    • @Warmaka
      @Warmaka 2 года назад +61

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

    • @sonar357
      @sonar357 Год назад +27

      Yup. The Mayans were almost proven right

    • @shadowsinmymind9
      @shadowsinmymind9 Год назад +9

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

    • @mikeharris4562
      @mikeharris4562 Год назад +5

      @@sonar357yup. Also if you look at what happened that year and year before!?
      Eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami all around the globe. Hundreds of thousands dead through natural disasters ..
      Nostradamus, Edgar Cacey more recently foreseen such disasters!
      Which is actually incredible.

    • @BlazinRiver1
      @BlazinRiver1 Год назад +6

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

  • @ianp7661
    @ianp7661 3 года назад +121

    This is far more terrifying than your other videos. With how unprepared the world has been for COVID, it's easy to imagine just how catastrophic the fallout from this would be. Fabulous!

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 года назад +6

      @Ian P. Lol, I love how you state "we're screwed if this happens two days from now" then follow that doom & gloom with "fabulous!"
      I get the feeling you're an adrenaline junkie.

    • @potatooolatke
      @potatooolatke 3 года назад +6

      I can already imagine the extreme barrage of misinformation the media will spread if it happens now. Some of our family members are already deep into conspiracy theories. Please no more.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 года назад +5

      @@potatooolatke Media won't exist if there is a major solar flare. Electricity grids will be fried and even if they weren't the radiation in the atmosphere would make wireless communication impossible.

    • @georgemallory797
      @georgemallory797 3 года назад +5

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

    • @flowerpower9541
      @flowerpower9541 9 дней назад

      ​@fattiger6957 that would be a nice break lol

  • @Meppity
    @Meppity 3 года назад +533

    I love the timing of this video - I was just listening to episode 117 of The Magnus Archives when I got a notification for this video. A fantastic combo , if you ask me!

    • @brycryfry
      @brycryfry 3 года назад +6

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

    • @PowerofPlacebo
      @PowerofPlacebo 3 года назад +3

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

    • @ziziflor9019
      @ziziflor9019 3 года назад +3

      Time to look up what this is. I need more interesting RUclips videos

    • @michaelreynolds7469
      @michaelreynolds7469 3 года назад +1

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

    • @elmomoorby1827
      @elmomoorby1827 3 года назад +3

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

  • @bryanwashere5010
    @bryanwashere5010 16 дней назад +1

    Where I live in montana, sometimes The Lights come out to a crazy degree. I've seen it where the light show was covering the entire visible hemisphere of the sky. Often times they dance, almost looking like a ghost fire in the sky.

  • @stevemac6707
    @stevemac6707 3 года назад +30

    Is it just me or does anyone else thumbs up the video before even watching? Knowing it will be quality & never once been disappointed....

  • @ridley_grace
    @ridley_grace 3 года назад +347

    i hope that poor girl ended up okay- i can only imagine how terrified she mustve been, not only thinking the world would end, having no idea what was going on, but her family sent her away too.

    • @janreznak881
      @janreznak881 3 года назад +27

      Trouble is, she's not wrong. At all. Our sun is capable of flaring at far higher levels than the Carrington Event. Our magnetic shield has decreased by 25% since 1859. Both north and south magnetic poles are on the move. It WILL be the end of the world as we know it. Power is not coming back, not after a week, not after 10 years, NOT AT ALL. And as someone said above, worst thing is that this is just a normal event in the cycle of or planet.

    • @Lo0ny_T0ons
      @Lo0ny_T0ons 3 года назад +8

      Dude she also got agitated

    • @codetech5598
      @codetech5598 3 года назад +13

      If it happens today, the world will end for anyone who depends on refrigerators, water pumps (including sewer and fire hydrants), subway systems, computer networks, air conditioning and fans, electric lights ...

    • @Lo0ny_T0ons
      @Lo0ny_T0ons 3 года назад +2

      @@codetech5598 I’d go crazy,

    • @zp944
      @zp944 3 года назад +9

      In some ways she wasn't wrong. It might not have been the end of THE world, but it was certainly the end of her's

  • @cherie7725
    @cherie7725 3 года назад +311

    This event was clearly the inspiration for The Long Dark.

  • @sonar357
    @sonar357 Год назад +9

    There was actually a flare roughly equal to the Carrington event back in December of 2012 (Mayan non-apocalypse timeframe). Good news, it missed us by one week. If it had erupted one week earlier it would’ve hit earth. (Cue spooky music)

  • @reinerbraun670
    @reinerbraun670 3 года назад +406

    Finally, someone making a video about the Carrington event. Strange, with the amount of storytelling RUclipsrs, no one is talking about the Carrington event even though it was such a bizarre yet beautiful phenomenon.

    • @gamemeister27
      @gamemeister27 3 года назад +6

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

    • @robdykejr
      @robdykejr 3 года назад +5

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

    • @TheGingerbreadgurl
      @TheGingerbreadgurl 3 года назад +3

      A huge coronal mass ejection! Cool beans! Yes would reek havoc with all electrical grids and satellites. Now says it would send us to the dark ages because a whole generation has been nursed on internet.

    • @DivaInTheWoods
      @DivaInTheWoods 3 года назад +10

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

    • @TheSopheom
      @TheSopheom 2 года назад +1

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

  • @itsmegamo
    @itsmegamo 3 года назад +157

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

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 года назад +12

      A Carrington-type event fries all electronic/electrical circuits, so as long as airplanes don't need electronics, or gages, or radar, or ground control, they'll be fine. Well, as long as the thousands of miles of wiring in jetliners doesn't short out like telegraph wires, especially near any fuel tanks. Note to self: never fly on a jetliner again.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 года назад +10

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

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 года назад +6

      @@fattiger6957 We had a control module chip go bad, and the car just shut off without warning. Luckily we were't going fast and were able to stop without power steering. We could still sort of steer but it was like pushing a log through dense mud. Brakes worked, doubt if ABS would - again, lucky we weren't on an interstate. But, yeah, all those drivers with the IQ of a rock would be so busy freaking and trying to restart their cars, they'd just plow into anything in their way.

    • @rgarito
      @rgarito 3 года назад +2

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

    • @gsdalpha1358
      @gsdalpha1358 3 года назад +3

      @Its me or whatever Uh, no. To glide takes flaps, altimeter, air speed, angle of descent, rudder, GPS (terrain advice, highway locations, etc). Assuming you somehow touch down, where's the reverse thrust and braking? Anymore, pilots have little emergency or even real flying experience - the auto-pilot does everything. A passenger jet without electronics is basically a rock.

  • @djjudas21
    @djjudas21 3 года назад +241

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

    • @kyliepechler
      @kyliepechler 3 года назад +43

      That and everyone losing the ability to get access to their money in their bank account, all at the same time.
      People will be losing their sanity.

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 года назад +45

      @@kyliepechler If it's bad enough, a flare could erase all the servers where those bank records are stored. No one will have any money since 99% of it exists only digitally.

    • @catherinep2034
      @catherinep2034 3 года назад +9

      @@fattiger6957 oh, that is scary

    • @SigrunHT
      @SigrunHT 3 года назад +16

      Electric cars will be useless if they can't recharge. Petrol pumps won't work. Forget computers, for entertainment we can look at the pretty sky instead. Don't expect to buy food because cash registers won't work. Woke people will have to give up being woke because they of all people will be amongst the most helpless and need others for support. Sounds interesting. People who suffer from depression will stop because suddenly the world has become interesting and challenging.

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 года назад +14

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

  • @airmanfair
    @airmanfair Год назад +6

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

  • @PoliticalWunderkind
    @PoliticalWunderkind 3 года назад +252

    "Seymour! The Apocalypse is starting!"
    "No Mother, it's just the Northern Lights."

    • @milkgxng
      @milkgxng 3 года назад +4

      nice your comments are right next to each other.

    • @shelleymcrae514
      @shelleymcrae514 3 года назад

      “Yes that’s what I mean”

  • @runlarryrun77
    @runlarryrun77 3 года назад +355

    Texas grid couldn't even deal with a well predicted cold spell so I'd say if one of these happens any time soon we're screwed.

    • @georgesracingcar7701
      @georgesracingcar7701 3 года назад +9

      Well then again, a solar storm is much more severe and overdramaticized than a winter storm, so it’s probably the opposite. It’s like how the existential threat of nuclear weapons has prompted the longest period of peace in human history.

    • @shimmershine6902
      @shimmershine6902 3 года назад

      Damn 💀💀💀

    • @duckmeat4674
      @duckmeat4674 3 года назад +16

      @@georgesracingcar7701 except for the Korean war, Cuba, Vietnam, and then Afghanistan, and those were wars just involving the Soviets, and America. There's at least 4x the amount of wars during this time, especially in Africa and the middle east

    • @LoneStarMillennial
      @LoneStarMillennial 3 года назад +4

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

    • @ianmichalski7997
      @ianmichalski7997 3 года назад +18

      Texas can't recover from anything. If a transgender person were to proudly walk down the street, the entire fabric of Texas society would unravel.

  • @punkybrewstar83
    @punkybrewstar83 3 года назад +52

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

  • @187mrsmith
    @187mrsmith 2 года назад +44

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

  • @koffinkat666
    @koffinkat666 3 года назад +347

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

    • @johnmurphy5689
      @johnmurphy5689 3 года назад +39

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

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ 3 года назад +18

      That's not how statistics work; basically we have a 1/160 chance to get one per year. The odds of an event occuring are not affected by how long it has been since the last one.

    • @koffinkat666
      @koffinkat666 3 года назад +6

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

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ 3 года назад +33

      @@koffinkat666 It happens approximately once every 160 years, but that doesn't mean that we're "owed" it happening if it doesn't for 160 years. It's essentially gambler's fallacy, where a gambler thinks that because they've lost a bunch of times in a row that they're more likely to win because they're "owed" a win.

    • @SoulSin
      @SoulSin 3 года назад +4

      Everybody Gangsta until 10:40.

  • @rhys1264
    @rhys1264 3 года назад +65

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

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 года назад +7

      Comet strike, supernova, quasar, mass extinction pandemic, super-volcano. Just a few more things to add to the list that can murder humanity at a minute's notice.

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 года назад

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

    • @andysings
      @andysings 3 года назад

      Nina! Sister ☆ Why worry over things You cannot control? :) Remember all the beautiful moments in your life. Remember the feeling? The frequency? Go there. Breathe. You Know Thyself. Fear truly is "unreal"..
      Just like time (manmade, remember that!)
      Love You. Go within. All the answers are awaiting you. The past year, with the big plandemic.. is showing us all, that we're constantly being lied to (this video - the event, experienced by every being within our earth - not questioning that) Sooo many inconsistencies.
      Do research, your own (that helped me big time step out of fear)
      Realise how history is just that, his-story.
      Remember we never know the truth of a battle/war, we only hear the victors story.
      Just like now.
      Question everything.
      Truth is subjective.
      I mean you no harm, just had a feeling to respond to your particular comment.
      May you be feeling alright today, and wherever you are in this spectacular universe being human, be happy - you're Alive! Beautiful.
      Much love, strength and protection surrounds you.
      Peace, andria in australia
      >>

  • @cyclopsdidnothingwrong6104
    @cyclopsdidnothingwrong6104 3 года назад +56

    “Good lord what is happening out there?”
    “Aurora Borealis.”
    “Aurora Borealis? At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, located all around the world?”
    “Yes.”
    “May I see it?”

  • @pennypay1
    @pennypay1 2 года назад +5

    How is it that I'm a few weeks from my 51st birthday and never heard about this event until now? I've taken astronomy courses in college as well as half a dozen science courses in middle and high school, and have watched so many videos about other 'space' phenomena like eclipses and auroras. This event was witnessed worldwide. And while it happened eight years before the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder, my favorite author from childhood, her father never mentioned it in the stories he loved to tell about his youth (and which were a big part of Wilder's series about her own youth). Given the era, no wonder people feared it was a sign of the End Times.

  • @dellahicks7231
    @dellahicks7231 3 года назад +5

    Living in northern Canada 🇨🇦 and having experienced the Northern Lights, I can see how without context they could be foreboding. In fact they are simply amazing and truly breathtaking!
    Even our skies on snowy nights can be illuminating, it makes the trade off of living where we dip down to -50° at times in the winter, worthwhile!

  • @Jenkinator
    @Jenkinator 3 года назад +239

    When you thought 2021 couldn’t get any worse and a carrington event takes place

    • @ao1778
      @ao1778 3 года назад +5

      I've been to seven different countries across three continents in the last twelve months... _oh noooo so apocalyptic_ 🙄

    • @comq01
      @comq01 3 года назад +6

      @@ao1778 a milion of ppl die
      The media: literally the end of the world

    • @ao1778
      @ao1778 3 года назад +2

      @@comq01 at least it's easier to spot the braindead sheep these days 👍🏻

    • @babecat2000
      @babecat2000 3 года назад +21

      @@ao1778 the pandemic is bad don't underestimate it.

    • @SienAppelsien
      @SienAppelsien 3 года назад +2

      And then betelgeuse explodes

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 3 года назад +335

    Can you imagine an event on that scale happening today? With our lives being impossible without electricity, we'll probably be sent right back to the stone age.

    • @minepose98
      @minepose98 3 года назад +63

      One missed us by nine days in 2012.

    • @bodhi8297
      @bodhi8297 3 года назад +23

      I’m sure it’s being monitored and we’d have time to prepare but you never know

    • @imbiork
      @imbiork 3 года назад +12

      Dr Stone?

    • @fredsilva8076
      @fredsilva8076 3 года назад +18

      That would certainly accelerate the great reset. On the other hand, we would lose Twitter

    • @xavierquinlan9933
      @xavierquinlan9933 3 года назад +57

      @@fredsilva8076 I see that as a absolute win

  • @SHGRetro
    @SHGRetro Год назад +2

    Putting electricals off line won't stop a Carrington event from destroying it. The Carrington event that was a solar flare is highly electrical and will destroy just about anything with electronic parts inside connected or not! The only way you might have a chance of saving anything is in a Faraday cage.

  • @Darks290
    @Darks290 3 года назад +68

    Thank you so much for introducing me to The Magnus Archives! It was an incredible listen and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes horror.

  • @NukeJockey
    @NukeJockey 3 года назад +26

    I was reading the wiki about the Carrington event and it linked to a similar event that happened in 2012, in that case there was a large CME aswell, however it missed the earth by approximately 9 days, meaning the sun wasn't facing towards earth when it happened, so it missed us thankfully. It also fits in the time line of a CME of that scale occurring every 150 years. Take a look at "the solar storm of 2012".

    • @tobie_one_kenobie2653
      @tobie_one_kenobie2653 3 года назад +6

      I remember people saying the solar wind was going to hit earth and that is how the world was going to end in 2012

    • @graffiti9145
      @graffiti9145 3 года назад +1

      Yeah I remember that event

    • @graffiti9145
      @graffiti9145 3 года назад +2

      So we must be safe for 150 more years

    • @sharp14x
      @sharp14x 3 года назад +2

      @@graffiti9145 Not how probability works.

    • @toryizquierdo35
      @toryizquierdo35 3 года назад +2

      ngl this is the most comforting comment here lmao
      we still need to prepare, but it's good to know that we might have more time than implied here

  • @catherinehubbard1167
    @catherinehubbard1167 3 года назад +525

    Preparing for another event like this should be a much higher priority than a manned Mars mission. It WILL happen.

    • @SilveniumTheDrifter
      @SilveniumTheDrifter 3 года назад +91

      Humans? Being proactive? Ha ha, funny joke.

    • @DarkAngel71180
      @DarkAngel71180 3 года назад +20

      Why don’t you leave it to scientists to decide what the priorities are, of which we can have more than one. Not to mention many of the statements made here are just simply incorrect, it’s not a science dedicated channel, it’s a horror channel.

    • @DarkAngel71180
      @DarkAngel71180 3 года назад +54

      @@SilveniumTheDrifter Scientists have been screaming from rooftops about the things we actually need to be better prepared for, it’s just that money rules everything and the space related work and research is underfunded. It’s not that we aren’t willing to be more proactive, it’s...WHERES THE MONEY??? Being prepared ain’t free.

    • @shanghunter7697
      @shanghunter7697 3 года назад +7

      @@DarkAngel71180 Why don't YOU stop being a narcissist, scientists actually know VERY LITTLE compared to the grand scheme of things. Only a fool would trust those in academia......Truth, it matters ! You ARE incorrect as well......see how it feels to be talked don too Karen. Now you'll fire back with an lol or name calling or just more mindless ramblings.

    • @shanghunter7697
      @shanghunter7697 3 года назад +12

      @@DarkAngel71180 Money AND narcissists , they rule everything. You'd make an excellent sadistic ruler. Best wishes now.

  • @CharlotteForbes
    @CharlotteForbes Год назад +4

    I wish I’d come across this channel way sooner as it gives me minutes to look forward to every day. No bs, no click bait, no drama, just fascinating disturbing stories.

  • @dorian4534
    @dorian4534 3 года назад +18

    Yes, that is, in fact, terrifying. One only has to look at the effect of the March 1989 geomagnetic storm in Quebec. Thankfully only took nine hours to get back online, but it was only a relatively minor storm in comparison to how back it could have been. Speaking of power disruptions, have you ever read about the January 1998 North American ice storm?

    • @f23as
      @f23as 3 года назад +2

      Not only heard of it, lived it (though I was a toddler). I've grown up with many stories from family about the good ol' ice storm

  • @hazridge
    @hazridge 3 года назад +406

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

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 года назад +41

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

    • @barrysherwin3297
      @barrysherwin3297 3 года назад +22

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

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 3 года назад +17

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

    • @johnhaller7017
      @johnhaller7017 3 года назад +1

      we got 4 dipoles currently. They all slidin' roun' like a contact lens on an eyeball. Give Aurora Australis some space. She will calm down in a century or so!

    • @shirmeymckamey9386
      @shirmeymckamey9386 3 года назад +1

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

  • @steelstringd2018
    @steelstringd2018 3 года назад +18

    Magnus Archives know what is up by supporting Fascinating Horror.
    Working class solidarity right here.

  • @sandraazocar
    @sandraazocar 5 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing that it happened again this year. Fortunately we made it through alright, and we got some wonderful photos and videos from all over the world of the auroras.

  • @brett4264
    @brett4264 2 года назад +171

    As an electrical engineer, I've always found this event fascinating. I've studied most aspects of it. I can say you've done your homework on the event and it's effects. Everything you said, I can back up. Well done!

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 2 года назад +1

      Since you seem to know a thing or two about electricity i'd like to know how exactly this would affect a little hobby solar installation like it have it. Panels, solar mttp and normal sealed lead acid batteries. Would it like fry the charge controller because it has ICs? Because i think the panels and batteries are too "stupid"/simple to just stop working.

    • @HeritageWealthPlanning
      @HeritageWealthPlanning 2 года назад +1

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

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 Год назад +2

      @@chrisakaschulbus4903 honestly? The best protection is steel reinforced concrete. If properly setup the steel bars ground the incoming energy and stop it from getting inside the building. It's the same principle as a faraday cage. It's a useful side benefit to using metal buildings in some cases.

    • @williamhutchinson8818
      @williamhutchinson8818 Год назад +1

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

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin Год назад +1

      ​@@chrisakaschulbus4903 I think your main concern would be voltage spikes caused by failures in the power grid. You're shielded from direct radiation effects (the main concern in space) by the atmosphere and you're isolated from magnetically induced DC currents (the main concern down on the ground) by your local distribution transformer. Beware however of phone lines and other wired distribution systems that are not DC-isolated.

  • @FenNick1994
    @FenNick1994 3 года назад +65

    Imagine if that scary force shut down the electricity and internet for years. All we might have for entertainment would be the memory of that short week when the sky lit up funnily.

    • @jessicabarczewski1910
      @jessicabarczewski1910 3 года назад +18

      If our electricity was shut down for years most people would be dead from a lack of food and water or from being murdered to get food and water. Our existence on this planet depends on electricity and without it we die

    • @paulhuber9628
      @paulhuber9628 3 года назад +2

      Not all would die, here in Europe we could handle it, decentralized electricity and no transformators needed, all systems at 220 V apart from that we have individual privat solar solutions sponsored by governments, take care and get secure

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 года назад

      @FenNick lol, that & staring at one another, or just sitting and listening to toads.
      "Wow, I remember when there was nothing to watch on the tee vee but reruns, and everybody would bitch & moan.. now there really is nil on the idiot box.. the only ones I hear bitchin' & moanin' now are toads & crickets."

    • @fattiger6957
      @fattiger6957 3 года назад

      Considering a major solar flare is an apocalyptic event for our modern, technology driven, society, I think people will have more to worry about than looking at the pretty lights in the sky.

  • @lesliecurran1704
    @lesliecurran1704 2 года назад +68

    I really like this channel, because it doesn't focus on just grisly crime and all that kind of stuff. It's very educational it's really interesting, keep up the good work!

  • @marksolarz3756
    @marksolarz3756 5 дней назад +1

    November 2024. We got a massive solar flare. Here in Minnesota. It was the greatest display of northern lights I've ever seen. I'm 59. Red to Green . Band's moving back n forth. Not just the northern horizon but directly overhead and all horizons. It was extraordinary when it turned Red. Crimson. Beautiful. I live in a very rural part. And there was no moon. Speel binding. Called many people. "Go Outside NOW! Look up! They don't last...and they change dramatically. Awesome.

  • @AdmiralNMR
    @AdmiralNMR 3 года назад +29

    There are many horror-themed channels out there, but this one leaves me feeling W O R R I E D every time like no other channel can.

  • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer
    @JohnRodriguesPhotographer 3 года назад +56

    During my senior year and high school, 76/77, I actually wrote a story based on the failure of the electrical grid and broadcast systems due to a sunspot. The story took place in the future, a future where Christmas had been renamed commerce day. The results of the plot were that families got together since they had nothing better to do to celebrate the holiday.

    • @maryfeist8080
      @maryfeist8080 Год назад +1

      Sounds like a great story! Bet you got A+.

    • @ClaimOfRightMuso
      @ClaimOfRightMuso Год назад

      You just described a Covid Lockdown type situation. It's certainly within the realms of possibility that governments - or WEF - would undertake such an event for the stated aim of ensuring whole families were forced indoors. Yes, they'd do that.

  • @katesteventon5296
    @katesteventon5296 3 года назад +101

    This is the good news story that we need after the year we’ve had 😂

  • @omalga
    @omalga 6 месяцев назад +2

    Watching it after reading about situation that happened lately. We witnessed massive things going on the sun and it kinda looked similar to the Carrington event. We saw Northern Lights across the world. But almost nothing bad happened. Reaserch has to be done to confirm if we were prepared enough or it was just pure luck. However yeah it was event on that level.

  • @alex-3457
    @alex-3457 3 года назад +48

    Sponsored by tma
    now that’s what i call quality sponsorship
    also another fascinating story, thank you!

  • @AG-ng8gt
    @AG-ng8gt 3 года назад +7

    Thanks for doing this! I've been fascinated and horrified by the Carrington event for years. We almost did have a repeat event in July 2012 but were saved by just a few days. It was big news at the time but everyone has gone back to complacency. If you thought coronavirus caused panic, just imagine what a worst case scenario would do.

  • @mkburwell9523
    @mkburwell9523 3 года назад +15

    I'm literally wearing a Magnus Archives t-shirt as I watch this. I could not recommend it more, and I'm sad it's over.

  • @DulyDullahan
    @DulyDullahan Год назад +9

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

    • @joejones9520
      @joejones9520 Год назад +4

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

    • @blindbrad4719
      @blindbrad4719 Год назад +3

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

  • @casekocsk
    @casekocsk 3 года назад +48

    "While it cause some distraction, it was far from deadly..."
    Tell that to the three birds that were shot dead.

  • @lunartears6761
    @lunartears6761 3 года назад +30

    The art piece, ‘The scream’ incorporated this event’s sky in its imagery.

    • @michaelreynolds7469
      @michaelreynolds7469 3 года назад +2

      Is that true? Super neat if so

    • @stormbornapostle5188
      @stormbornapostle5188 3 года назад +15

      Some art scholars think he based it off the night skies after the eruption of Krakatoa, actually (which would have been much more recent, happening in 1883, as opposed to the 1859 Carrington event). But short of necromancy, there's no way to know for sure.

    • @michaelreynolds7469
      @michaelreynolds7469 3 года назад +1

      @@stormbornapostle5188 interesting

    • @lunartears6761
      @lunartears6761 3 года назад +6

      @@stormbornapostle5188you might be right about that actually. There’s at least 2-3 different events where the skies trip out world wide in the 1800’s. I often get those mixed-up.😅
      I think Mt. Tambora had a similar affect, but nowhere as bad as Krakatoa. Edvard Munch’s parents would have been able to witness the carrington effect in 1859 though.

    • @michaelreynolds7469
      @michaelreynolds7469 3 года назад

      @@lunartears6761 do you think Edvard Munch was able to witness the event or something similar though? It would be a game changer for history if that was the case, I know it's speculation but imagine if that was his inspiration for 'The Scream', that would change history.

  • @maicey_t.
    @maicey_t. 3 года назад +28

    No way, I didn't realize the Magnus Archives ever sponsored anything! Awesome. Says a lot about the quality of your content, I think. Good stuff.

  • @James2005.
    @James2005. 2 года назад +9

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

    • @iosaturnalia
      @iosaturnalia 2 года назад +1

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

    • @sandraazocar
      @sandraazocar 5 месяцев назад

      Now we know. It happened this year and we were alright.

  • @Olhado256
    @Olhado256 3 года назад +48

    Why isn't this event more widely known? It must have been a once in a lifetime experience for millions of people.

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 3 года назад +1

      It was a once in a lifetime for some nations.

    • @mrbyamile6973
      @mrbyamile6973 3 года назад +10

      It is very widely known in the prepping and Ham radio community. Generally people just think you're talking nonsense as a conspiracy theorists if you mention it and don't spend 2 minutes to look it up and confirm it is a real thing. IMHO

    • @emopeterparker226
      @emopeterparker226 3 года назад +4

      One missed us in 2012 by nine days

    • @jefferyindorf699
      @jefferyindorf699 3 года назад +6

      The Carrington event happened at the dawn of the electronic revolution, so the effect was only on the telegraph.
      Today, virtually everything has some electronic components,and the results will be devastating for the world.

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 3 года назад +1

      Is this not widely known? I learned about it as a child, but maybe I'm a weirdo.

  • @jeffengland9913
    @jeffengland9913 3 года назад +106

    My mother was 13 years old in 1939.she told me a story when i was a teenager.she said in 39 her family lived in Eden nc.one evening everyone in the small town could see the northern lights.they didn't know what it was.the whole town gathered in churches and awaited the end of the world.they had never heard of the aurora borialice.

    • @JROD082384
      @JROD082384 3 года назад +18

      Just goes to show you how ignorant and backwards people back then were...
      ...Especially religious people, which still holds true today.

    • @Poopookachew1
      @Poopookachew1 3 года назад +51

      @@JROD082384 Where do you order your fedoras from?

    • @cbullou4
      @cbullou4 3 года назад +11

      @@JROD082384 or just uneducated

    • @johnmoore1290
      @johnmoore1290 3 года назад +12

      @@JROD082384 And Millenial Liberals!

    • @Jedi-xm7rw
      @Jedi-xm7rw 3 года назад +17

      @@JROD082384 Do you think you would know what was happening if you weren't born in this day and age? You only know things because everyone before you had to learn them for the first time.

  • @welshpete12
    @welshpete12 3 года назад +7

    I remember something similar in the 1980's . I was a railway signalman and we still used a Mores like key and bell signals . We would get random bell signals, when there was high sunspot activity . As far as I remember it was very rare , say only twice in 49 years .

  • @raycapetillo5569
    @raycapetillo5569 Год назад +1

    Funny I get this in my recommended videos, because Anton Petrov just did a video on the fact we just experienced a Carrington Event. Guess we aren't overdue anymore! Good video!

    • @Kalbuir66
      @Kalbuir66 Год назад

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

  • @TheEgg185
    @TheEgg185 3 года назад +59

    First half of video: A nice story where no one gets harmed for once. 😊
    Second half: I'm scared more than I've ever been. 😰

    • @Sem5626
      @Sem5626 Год назад +2

      oh yeah... we are royally screwed the next time it happens