The Carrington Event: Earth's Electronic Apocalypse

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  3 года назад +66

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    • @Jaime13R
      @Jaime13R 3 года назад +8

      Ok wtf my power was out for about 45 minutes, it came back on and what’s the first thing in my subscriptions?? The carrington event 🤣😂

    • @mrburn6119
      @mrburn6119 3 года назад +1

      good video until the end -
      how foolish to think that a geomagnetic Event would NOT cause the collapse of civilization. making telegraph poles is relatively easy, making transformers - when you have NO electricity is even easier? sarcasm
      LOOK- On a serious note - This is the reason the uk wiring regs changed (recently) to a non combustible consumer unit and recommend a ecd (earth current discharge) .when a GM storm hits ( the energy from the storm (and our own planet)) will still travel along these lines, blowing the transformers, and causing fires in domestic properties. IF you dig deep enough then you will find that the uk power grid is replacing SOME of its transformers, so that when a GM storm hits they will NOT turn off the power and let these new transformers 'ride' the storm, sadly these transformers do have a limit.
      The x ray and gamma radiation would erase data on devices unless it was effectively shielded (most are not).
      Our magnetic field has WEAKENED 15% since carrington.
      How very naïve to think that the loss of power, communication, work, money, shops, the way food is made available, on an ENTIRE CONTINENT (at the least) - would not lead to the collapse of the civilization - very, very naïve.
      CME hits this minute - how much food do you have? how much WATER (electricity is needed to filter and pump water)?, how much money to buy food (as long as the shops open/has food) now multiply this by your WHOLE continent.
      Finally who said 2012 was the end of the world? the Mayan's? or the 2 professors who put a date on it? Really good propaganda when the Mayan's said that Coming into the age of Aquarius the planet would suffer fire as it has suffered before in the past (fire/water/ice).
      And very finally - perhaps you should research what happened in the 18 months prior to nasa being formed (hint: it has to do with, lost radio transmission, the sun, and evidence of VERY severe (cataclysmic) solar activity), TO make the glass they found on the moon needs so much heat (official version) that it would in fact vaporise the moon, but if you subject moon dust to plasma then you get the EXACT same glass - no heat (as done in the national physic lab).
      The world in peril - White, the meeting at the pentagon.

    • @thesuccessfulone
      @thesuccessfulone 3 года назад +1

      2:37 Perfect

    • @TeeGar
      @TeeGar 3 года назад +3

      I'm guessing the proceeds go towards your hair club for men membership

    • @리주민
      @리주민 3 года назад +1

      Just a thought, but we can EM shield electronics we want to protect, so can we do the same EM shielding for both the internet hubs, transformers, other machines, and the wires themselves?

  • @garyhendrick4391
    @garyhendrick4391 3 года назад +2273

    "So long as our leaders are willing to listen to scientists, we should be ok"
    We are screwed

    • @somethinglikethat2176
      @somethinglikethat2176 3 года назад +69

      Oh they listen. But they also listen to how little voters give a crap about things like this unless they happen and how resistant people are to paying for prevention of things they don't understand.

    • @cattibingo
      @cattibingo 3 года назад +86

      @@somethinglikethat2176 "how dare you increase tax by a few percent in order to avoid future disaster"

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 3 года назад +138

      @@cattibingo It would be fine if the taxes actually went to what they're meant to go to instead of corrupt politicians' pockets. Maybe that's why people don't like high taxes, because they know what it really goes to.

    • @hartunstart
      @hartunstart 3 года назад +73

      They spend too much time listening climate scientists. They don't have time to listen real scientists.

    • @garyhendrick4391
      @garyhendrick4391 3 года назад +28

      @@hartunstart Lol.

  • @LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits
    @LordMcKrakenVonLittleBits 3 года назад +526

    It's things like this that put into perspective how delicate our lives are. In a day we can go from technology dependant to full on medieval.

    • @SupersuMC
      @SupersuMC 3 года назад +32

      Medieval? No, no, we're going back to the Stone Age! ;-)

    • @christinearmington
      @christinearmington 3 года назад +9

      If only I had a horse . . . 🤨

    • @St.Linguini_of_Pesto
      @St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 года назад +18

      More like stone age. Medieval would be far more modern than humanity could be, without the phones & internet & angry birds.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 3 года назад +7

      I hope not as ignorant as in those ages. And I hope no one brands me as a heathen that needs rehabilitation.

    • @MarcusCollins69
      @MarcusCollins69 3 года назад +6

      @@ginnyjollykidd if we get set back
      We aren't coming back
      Materials now require we excavate and stuff which we won't be able to do
      It's all or nothing now

  • @Blanchy10
    @Blanchy10 3 года назад +183

    I was working in summer at Perisher, a ski resort in Sothern NSW Australia about 2000 when we were warned about solar flairs. One afternoon, after work we were having a beer above the parked machinery and a 6x6b Mercedes truck started up. Looked around and all of us workers were present but no-one near the truck. I went down found the truck was locked, had to go and get the key unlock it, turn it on and then off to get it to shut down. Mechanics would not believe me the next day but I think the static electricity had tripped a relay in the starter system. Was very weird. Late that night saw Aurora Australis for the one and only time.

    • @melisentiapheiffer3034
      @melisentiapheiffer3034 2 года назад +4

      Wow

    • @MTG69
      @MTG69 Год назад

      The 6x6b Mercedes Truck is probably a transformer. If Shia LaBeouf shows up, good luck. If Megan Fox shows up, call me.

  • @amransom26
    @amransom26 3 года назад +101

    We’re so f**ked...
    “As long as our leaders listen to scientists” I actually laughed out loud on that part.

    • @joshstueber1828
      @joshstueber1828 6 месяцев назад

      I don't think they even know science is a thing. Have you seen the amount of people now (2 years later after your comment), thinks space is fake and a possible scare tactic?

  • @diGritz1
    @diGritz1 3 года назад +18

    One of the more interesting effects was that after unplugging the batteries that power the telegraph. Operators found they could still send and receive without power. It was due to the huge amount of charged particles in the lines.

  • @justalurkr
    @justalurkr 3 года назад +104

    Knowing there are actions we can take to mitigate the damage is good. Knowing those actions require a level of cooperation and willingness to sacrifice short term profits is terrifying.

    • @themenacingpenguin.7152
      @themenacingpenguin.7152 Год назад +4

      It's stupid and concerning that those in charge of society only think profit even if it harms those who hold them up.

    • @scibanana3542
      @scibanana3542 Год назад

      _Star spangled banner plays_

    • @JeepCherokeeful
      @JeepCherokeeful 6 месяцев назад

      Governments could and should protect us from this…not the evil capitalists

  • @crispyandspicy6813
    @crispyandspicy6813 3 года назад +1123

    Everybody gangsta till the Sun says "That's enough internet for you"

    • @jacob4920
      @jacob4920 3 года назад +40

      @Infinus Ultima The good news will be the untimely death of Twitter. Which I think would universally make the world a better place...

    • @woodonfire7406
      @woodonfire7406 3 года назад +20

      @@jacob4920 bad news
      RUclips will be no more

    • @MilkoOfficialChannel
      @MilkoOfficialChannel 3 года назад +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @abt815
      @abt815 3 года назад +3

      @Infinus Ultima people might be the worst part about that.

    • @grahambird2208
      @grahambird2208 3 года назад +15

      Games that you don't need internet for will get popular again

  • @mixnmatchflavourbleach2313
    @mixnmatchflavourbleach2313 3 года назад +1005

    At least this apocalypse will wipe my internet history for me while I die

    • @mammuchan8923
      @mammuchan8923 3 года назад +51

      But the Ads will go on forever 😳

    • @Swoop187OG187
      @Swoop187OG187 3 года назад +20

      Solar flares cant kill people, lol - just unprotected electronics..

    • @canaan5337
      @canaan5337 3 года назад +49

      @@Swoop187OG187 unprotected Electronics failing at the wrong time can be fatal. Like if all the electrical systems that keep airplanes and helicopters in the air fail it would be fatal to the people in the helicopters and the airplanes and the people under them when and where they crash.

    • @rcknbob1
      @rcknbob1 3 года назад +36

      @@Swoop187OG187 How about pacemakers, insulin pumps,etc.? Admittedly, not a large number of people - but how many fatal traffic accidents due to micro-controllers going out in cars and traffic control systems?

    • @Swoop187OG187
      @Swoop187OG187 3 года назад +17

      @@rcknbob1 All of those essential electronics are insulated so they're not at risk of failing in the event of a EMP/CME... The only electronics that are at risk of failing are consumer products, and only because it doesn't make economic sense to go the extra mile and have these cheap products shielded - for example; like a TV, video game council, some computers etc.. But all essential electronics are shielded in the event that we do have a massive EMP/CME..
      Look, this is obviously an interesting phenomena but not one that should frighten anyone, lol... There are plenty other alien objects in space that have the potential to wipe humanity into oblivion.. You know what's scary? the fact that somewhere out there in the void of space are numerous rocks tens of miles in diameter and others the size of cities which are all on track to hit the Earth one day - and it's not even a matter of "if" it's "when" - now that is terrifying.. But at the very least we can do something about that easily - but what we can't do easily is stop a "super-volcano" from erupting - now the next time that happens it's going to be a dark day for humanity. Then you have these fools talking about climate change, lol.. SMH.. Climate change is an inconvenience which no one will notice - not a threat to humanity like a super-volcano or a space rock the size of NYC aimed right at the Earth, lol... Of course there are quasars too which would essentially vaporize the planet .....
      I suppose my point is that there is a lot of scary shit out there that is far more dangerous to humanity than an EMP/CME and it's not a question of if these terrible events are going to happen it's when these terrible events are going to happen.. Of course the odds of any of these events happening in our lifetime or even close to it is slim to nearly impossible - unfortunately tho some future society will absolutely have to deal with these terrible natural events and hopefully they will have the technology to do something about them..

  • @sigmundfreud7903
    @sigmundfreud7903 3 года назад +85

    If there’s people who scare you about AI, just remember gargantuan EMPs from our Sun can deliver a helluva shakedown.

    • @christinearmington
      @christinearmington 3 года назад

      From the sun?

    • @lelouchvibritannia4028
      @lelouchvibritannia4028 3 года назад

      This is why it is also important to install generators to our homes without actually plugging them in so they don't fry, too, and to keep lots of gas for said generators.

    • @jamesbedford7327
      @jamesbedford7327 3 года назад +2

      @@lelouchvibritannia4028 Petrol/Gasoline will go bad if you store it for long periods

    • @HeleSha
      @HeleSha 3 года назад +2

      @@lelouchvibritannia4028 It needs to be in a proper solid and sealed Faraday cage. It will likely not survive. Even then..... it might not. Remember.... The telegraph machines worked after they'd been disconnected from power!!!!

    • @tomowenpianochannel
      @tomowenpianochannel Год назад

      Hahahahahaha

  • @blackblurable
    @blackblurable 3 года назад +29

    “Will happen within our lifetime.”
    Not if I die first!

    • @penismightier9278
      @penismightier9278 3 года назад

      Thank you for specifying Claw Vega. As opposed to Dictator Vega.

    • @hildemel
      @hildemel 6 месяцев назад

      Almost had it this year!

  • @NajwaLaylah
    @NajwaLaylah 3 года назад +362

    I hope the League of Knowledgeable Bald Men is working on averting this looming disaster.

    • @shxtgigs4662
      @shxtgigs4662 3 года назад +16

      I would watch that movie for sure

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore 3 года назад +11

      Somebody alert Vsauce Michael.

    • @306champion
      @306champion 3 года назад +1

      Najwa, he's not bald, he's got a strip around the outside but missing a bit up the middle, the rest is shaved because of vanity.

    • @reddune6185
      @reddune6185 3 года назад +3

      Unfortunately it's not like a meteor, the only thing that you can do is get way underground or in a cave and have plenty of supplies and a plan.. 😏

    • @TheDalaiLamaCon
      @TheDalaiLamaCon 3 года назад +1

      It's Kylie Minogue under all that brillo.

  • @operator0
    @operator0 3 года назад +336

    Simon thinks the government will warn us ahead of time of an event like this. Bless his heart.

    • @mrburn6119
      @mrburn6119 3 года назад +8

      they have had since 1956, so yep agree with you

    • @Junkinsally
      @Junkinsally 3 года назад +26

      The dense public wouldn’t believe it if they were told!

    • @kegsofvomitspit
      @kegsofvomitspit 3 года назад +12

      You think “the government” is some kind of homogeneous hive-mind. Bless your stunted brain.

    • @mrburn6119
      @mrburn6119 3 года назад +6

      @@kegsofvomitspit IT is, a hive mind , a hive mind that does not give a feck about 'common' people.

    • @mrburn6119
      @mrburn6119 3 года назад +3

      @@Junkinsally The trouble is that if the men in white coats all made a mainstream media declaration then the public would believe it- the result complete panic and chaos- EXACTLY the reason that we have not Officially been told

  • @everyoneash
    @everyoneash 3 года назад +697

    If covid has taught us anything...we are so screwed if a Carrington event happens again

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 3 года назад +33

      Half the world would be unprepared. The other half would go into the shop to make improvised EMPs.

    • @Giganfan2k1
      @Giganfan2k1 3 года назад +27

      But hey someone finally got rid of that 5G tower menace.

    • @paultheaudaciousbradford6772
      @paultheaudaciousbradford6772 3 года назад +16

      With every scientific advance, new evidence to show that we’re totally screwed!!

    • @wolfthorn1
      @wolfthorn1 3 года назад +35

      House of cards. When the right card is pulled.
      We never put a lot of effort into fortifying our infrastructure.

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 3 года назад +7

      When 😿

  • @scottyford4224
    @scottyford4224 3 года назад +5

    Winter storm this year was the craziest , coldest experience of my life. Live in ft Worth. The loss of power and water for a week was something i dont ever want to go thru again.

  • @ronstriz594
    @ronstriz594 3 года назад +9

    Dude your stellar. The way you explain the way you communicate info is off the charts. Super duper well done ✅

  • @AirShark95
    @AirShark95 3 года назад +267

    One thing to note is that our magnetic fields are about 10% weaker than during the Carrington Event. Our primary defense is being lost and it will make the effects be felt even more severely on Earth.

    • @mrburn6119
      @mrburn6119 3 года назад +25

      15% if not more
      EONF

    • @dennischristensen5892
      @dennischristensen5892 3 года назад +25

      and its still weakening!

    • @reddune6185
      @reddune6185 3 года назад +32

      It doesn't help that they sell solar flares as the Carrington event is the worst it could be. The next big one can be many times more magnitude than that.

    • @AirShark95
      @AirShark95 3 года назад +31

      @@reddune6185 Stars like the Sun have been observed putting out colosal flares, far larger than the Carrington Event. It could be that these events are rare and happen in timescales of many millenia, but you are right. It seems thay Carrington Events are not the strongest erruption our sun could produce, we just don't really know yet given how little time we have had to study our Sun.

    • @donise8406
      @donise8406 3 года назад +2

      Yes we all know the Sky is Falling

  • @1themaster1
    @1themaster1 3 года назад +73

    What about pacemakers? I can imagine that such a magnetic storm would be a life-threatening horror show for cardiac disease patients.

    • @Demonetization_Symbol
      @Demonetization_Symbol Год назад +13

      Or anyone else with an electronic organ part. Or just hospitals in general.

    • @malcansdell5778
      @malcansdell5778 Год назад +1

      You may just die a few days earlier. So no big deal.

    • @gw10758
      @gw10758 Год назад

      A pacemaker would likely be fried during such an event also. Sorry.

  • @ernestolombardo5811
    @ernestolombardo5811 3 года назад +534

    "We'll be able to see how prepared our planet really is."
    (me, glancing over at COVID...) Alrighty then...

    • @somethinglikethat2176
      @somethinglikethat2176 3 года назад +7

      Japan, South Korea and Taiwan were and got though it pretty well.

    • @emmata98
      @emmata98 3 года назад +18

      @@somethinglikethat2176 3 out of 300 countries?

    • @cattibingo
      @cattibingo 3 года назад +20

      I wonder what the equivalent of the whole "im not wearing no mask, muh rights" thing would be

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 3 года назад +15

      @@cattibingo I imagine it would be something like "no grid censorship my rights to have the internet on all times" Or at least a similar broken language variation on that.

    • @tbeller80
      @tbeller80 3 года назад +18

      @@cattibingo refusal to power down the grid in preparation for the storm.

  • @luvthetux
    @luvthetux 3 года назад +15

    FYI, if such a thing happened now a days... remember to fill your bathtub up. The tub holds many gallons of water to use in any emergency really. It never occurred to me in 2019. We had a wind storm snapping power poles, and our power was out for a week. Towards the end of that week for 1 day we had no water either, since there was no power for the pumps to get it to us. Fortunately we are downhill from the pump so gravity fed it to us some, if not, we would have been without water sooner.

    • @1lovebaybee
      @1lovebaybee 6 месяцев назад

      Oh yeah, because stagnated water is a great thing.We're really trying to go back in time and create bacterial infections aren't we

  • @RogueHippie13
    @RogueHippie13 3 года назад +7

    “Could it happen again?”
    If the result would be bad, then the answer is absolutely “yes”

  • @thcdreams654
    @thcdreams654 3 года назад +204

    As a dude living in New England I hope you didn't jinx us. If you did I'm coming for your cereal.

    • @GerSanRiv
      @GerSanRiv 3 года назад +7

      That magic spoon sounds good.

    • @imouse3246
      @imouse3246 3 года назад +1

      @@GerSanRiv Good and pricey.

    • @Scottocaster6668
      @Scottocaster6668 3 года назад +9

      "Cereal Killer" 😆

    • @imouse3246
      @imouse3246 3 года назад +5

      @@Scottocaster6668 Jack the Eater.

    • @NoadiArt
      @NoadiArt 3 года назад +4

      Right? I lived through the Ice Storm of 1998 and I'd rather skip anything like that again, that long without power was awful

  • @doggedout
    @doggedout 3 года назад +361

    Plot twist: The Sun actually monitors all communications on earth, hears Simon call it "a dick", decides to fart in his general direction.

  • @Dalenra3013
    @Dalenra3013 3 года назад +22

    People are more likely to hide in a basement during a tornado, than a hurricane. Hurricanes give enough warning for folks to get out of Dodge, tornadoes- not so much. :/ Either way, great video! The Carrington Event has terrified me since I first learned about it.

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 2 года назад +3

    NOAA in Boulder Colorado holds daily space weather meetings every morning.
    It's kinda cool to see them go through each potential hazard!

  • @ro4eva
    @ro4eva 3 года назад +99

    A 'Carrington Event' completely ending Twitter, Facebook, and so forth (most social media) is something I would absolutely celebrate.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 3 года назад +10

      Says it on youtube…honestly if you don’t have social media it doesn’t really matter

    • @pd1jdw630
      @pd1jdw630 3 года назад +2

      There will always be ham radio.

    • @nightruler666
      @nightruler666 3 года назад +2

      They'll get bailed out

    • @janetwhite7786
      @janetwhite7786 3 года назад +4

      @@pd1jdw630 For the half dozen ppl who still have sets.

    • @your-username-here2308
      @your-username-here2308 2 года назад +5

      Says the Person who uses RUclips.

  • @_SimpleJack_
    @_SimpleJack_ 3 года назад +81

    Anything that shuts down social media is okay with me!

    • @Sixstringman
      @Sixstringman 3 года назад +10

      It would be a real chance to weed out the stupidity.

    • @Lady-Mara
      @Lady-Mara 3 года назад +4

      Yeeeessssss
      Is it bad that I really want this to happen? As much as I enjoy RUclips and internet, it would be gruesomely interesting to see this happen. I have preppers in my life, and I'll be able to most likely survive but internet has become mostly cancerous

    • @judithann7193
      @judithann7193 3 года назад +2

      Really?

    • @MegaKat
      @MegaKat 3 года назад +3

      Same here, but I worry I'll lose my pictures of my kids. Didn't own a cell phone until I was 30 (now 37), but haven't owned a camera since then, unfortunately.

    • @TheLiamis
      @TheLiamis 3 года назад +2

      Agreed. Humanity would improve rapidly over the 5 years it will take to rebuild the grid.

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 3 года назад +180

    "so long as we have leaders that listen to scientists..." Simon it's very clear you don't live in the USA

    • @burnedrat7416
      @burnedrat7416 3 года назад +4

      Lmao, you said "leaders." Which of course do what needs to be done because it needs to be not worrying about being reelected. Idoit.

    • @MrCooljeppe
      @MrCooljeppe 3 года назад +9

      @The Program with a quick google search, i learned that your claim is bs.

    • @utarefson9
      @utarefson9 3 года назад +9

      @@MrCooljeppe Care to share your source then?

    • @Leafsdude
      @Leafsdude 3 года назад +4

      @The Program What is your basis for this conclusion?
      I hope it's not a "hide the decline" moment...

    • @jimm2297
      @jimm2297 3 года назад

      You know he was being sarcastic, right? British Humour.

  • @tommysheehan2136
    @tommysheehan2136 3 года назад +214

    Astrophysics student here. Can confirm, our sun is a dick-definitely a Napoleon complex

    • @springbok4015
      @springbok4015 3 года назад +6

      Thankfully our Sun is no small fellow.

    • @hosmerhomeboy
      @hosmerhomeboy 3 года назад +6

      It's because it's small and alone. Jealous of all it's more magnificent, sociable compatriots.

    • @ernestolombardo5811
      @ernestolombardo5811 3 года назад +1

      Nope, that would be red dwarf stars. With a wafer-thin buffer between their fusion core and the surface, these tiniest of stars spew out CarringtonX1000 on a regular basis.

    • @tommysheehan2136
      @tommysheehan2136 3 года назад +8

      @@ernestolombardo5811 our sun is very average in size and brightness but Napoleon was about average height and power too, so I stand by my joke lmao

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 3 года назад +3

      Well, i prefer a sun that is a bit of a dick to a sun that is the cosmic equivalent of Hannibal Lecter.

  • @jimgurtner
    @jimgurtner 3 года назад +50

    I recommend the book “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen. It portrays what would happen if the power went out in the US for a year or more. He makes a strong argument, through a dramatized story, how 80% or more of American citizens would be dead in the first year.

    • @RainbowManification
      @RainbowManification 2 года назад

      If it’s only confined to the US. There would be a mass exodus to other countries

    • @jimgurtner
      @jimgurtner 2 года назад +2

      @@RainbowManification With no electricity, there would be no fuel for transportation.

    • @jimgurtner
      @jimgurtner Год назад

      @Commander Rockwell Awesome idea! I have to look into that!

    • @rarelycold6618
      @rarelycold6618 Год назад

      Yeah, but those pesky city people would be gone

    • @vessel_iii
      @vessel_iii Год назад +3

      why is it always just about Americans dude

  • @WingManFang1
    @WingManFang1 3 года назад +7

    16:38 at the point when you reference the Freeze Disaster here in Texas earlier this year I had a PTSD flashback. It was my birthday when the snow started to fall and the ice started to form...my request for time off at one job was denied and I guess nature decided I was taking time off anyways...I saw people in the streets unable to get home or find shelter in some cases, cars got stuck or even crashed due to ignorance or fear, and people strait up died because of the ignorance of our power companies and the local government not providing the power they are not allowed to deny us. I almost froze at my second job with a tiny portable heater to pass from hands to feet every few minutes, and at home I had to wear Double layers of clothes and gloves under several layers of blankets, and we had to eat junk food unless we could make it to a restaurant that stayed open on a generator or the grid by the hospitals, and we had to get enough food to last days. It was a nightmare...

  • @302racing3
    @302racing3 3 года назад +245

    How many song references do you want in your chapter titles?
    Simon: *yes*

    • @phelyan
      @phelyan 3 года назад +14

      How many War of the Worlds references do you want in the script?
      Simon: very yes

    • @SkywalkerSamadhi
      @SkywalkerSamadhi 3 года назад +6

      And make them all Beatle songs!! Especially Mr. Blue Sky.
      But that's an ELO so..
      DO IT!!!!!

    • @brianmartindale2221
      @brianmartindale2221 3 года назад +3

      Simon: "Hello darkness my old friend ..." Maybe we get some sounds of silence from some folks, eh? Did Donald Trump recently get hit by a solar flare?

    • @fixman88
      @fixman88 3 года назад +3

      @@SkywalkerSamadhi Here Comes The Sun is also the name of a song by Bill Wurtz (with a really neat 3D animation he did to go with it).

    • @joshuadannaker7794
      @joshuadannaker7794 3 года назад

      * waiting for the sun is a Doors song
      ..I would've been smitten if they opted to fit Velvet Underground's song Who Loves the Sun.

  • @brittanyjennings4236
    @brittanyjennings4236 3 года назад +60

    Here's the thing though, those of us in the northeastern US are so used to losing power every winter that we all have generators. Whenever a blackout occurs in my neighborhood that's all I can hear is the rumbling of people's generators automatically coming alive. The trouble would then become finding fuel to keep them running for extended periods of time.

    • @888johnmac
      @888johnmac 3 года назад +41

      most modern generators have some sort of electronic controller , which could be fried same as everything else

    • @BluePhoenix1973
      @BluePhoenix1973 3 года назад +11

      considering gas pumps use electricity and gas goes bad if left exposed to the air for too long...

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 3 года назад +11

      @@888johnmac If the blast lasts long enough for the generators to come online, they take a hit too. If they are disconnected and shut down, and stay untill the weather clears , they could be usable. Gas does run out eventually...

    • @lelouchvibritannia4028
      @lelouchvibritannia4028 3 года назад +5

      This is why it is also important to install generators to our homes without actually plugging them in so they don't fry, too, and to keep lots of gas for said generators.

    • @hughjass4838
      @hughjass4838 3 года назад +8

      Any gas engine has an ignition coil, which is just a small transformer. An emp can fry the ignition and no gas engine would run. No electronics means no modern trucks or cars would run, so no food delivered to stores.

  • @JDBlack3347
    @JDBlack3347 3 года назад +27

    Honestly, given how tight our economy runs things like food distribution, food shortages could easily occur as a result of a modern day Carrington

    • @QoraxAudio
      @QoraxAudio Год назад

      Yep and people will start looting other peoples homes within just a week, since humanity is intrinsically evil.

    • @Torgonius
      @Torgonius Год назад +1

      We get that now without one.

  • @jonjahr3403
    @jonjahr3403 Год назад +3

    I believe in terms of a Carrington level solar event hitting earth again, Woody Harrelson said it best in the movie 2012 when he asked "Where are they gonna plug in their electric cars then?"

    • @anitawi2309
      @anitawi2309 Год назад

      Thank you, this is exactly what I was thinking. Hmmm, not good. I Wouldn't want to be sitting inside of one of these computers. Yikes😳😳

  • @000netko
    @000netko 3 года назад +30

    Now I can add solar storms to the list of things you made me afraid of on a daily basis, along with earthquakes, nuclear fallout, supervolcanoes, weirdly shaped interstellar rocks, islands filled with bird poop, cannibal river islands and anthrax

    • @drevil3606
      @drevil3606 Год назад +1

      Spiders ??

    • @LikeTheBirb
      @LikeTheBirb Год назад +1

      Can't forget about sinkholes

    • @TheQueenRulesAll
      @TheQueenRulesAll Год назад

      Don't forget the viruses in melting permafrost we have not been exposed to for thousands of years.

    • @Demonetization_Symbol
      @Demonetization_Symbol Год назад +1

      Add BSE and other neurodegenerative diseases.

    • @RadenWA
      @RadenWA Год назад +1

      Why would you be afraid of bird poop island on a daily basis 🤔

  • @3r1414
    @3r1414 3 года назад +105

    This is one of the reasons I live off the grid, literally everything I need I can get for myself without civilization. However not having youtube or disney plus would suck.

    • @austenhead5303
      @austenhead5303 3 года назад +15

      I'm increasingly coming around to your way of thinking. Civilisation is nice, but so fragile these days.

    • @wisersamson9000
      @wisersamson9000 3 года назад +33

      You're on RUclips right now, you must not be that far off the grid....

    • @ScottysHaze
      @ScottysHaze 3 года назад +15

      @@wisersamson9000 Exactly. Someone should teach that person what "off the grid" means.

    • @ajstevens1652
      @ajstevens1652 3 года назад +11

      @@wisersamson9000 Using internet, electricity and a mobile device/desktop 😂

    • @lelouchvibritannia4028
      @lelouchvibritannia4028 3 года назад

      This is why it is also important to install generators to our homes without actually plugging them in so they don't fry, too, and to keep lots of gas for said generators.

  • @BBulletin
    @BBulletin 3 года назад +163

    Before COVID, I wouldn't have been worried about us being ready.

    • @MoarPye
      @MoarPye 3 года назад +31

      Yep, now we have to expect all the Carrington Deniers to deliberately re-network isolated and shielded systems while claiming that it's all fake news; until it actually happens, at which point they'll switch to claiming that it's a Socialist Liberal Plot to take away their Free Speech Twitters. :/

    • @farlesbarkley1022
      @farlesbarkley1022 3 года назад +8

      @Bob Bob It means he is young and didn't realize the nature of the real world

    • @kacgb5315
      @kacgb5315 3 года назад +5

      @@MoarPye ....ok I see obviously trying to right wingers....and yes they ar being banned and their speech taken away, anyway the whole covid stuff majority of right wingers believ it, it's just that they see how the government has taken advantage of it to lock all in their homes and become authoritarian....sooo ya dont have to over think it

    • @BBulletin
      @BBulletin 3 года назад +20

      @Bob Bob The disorganized response to the pandemic managed to prove that we are even less prepared to respond to catastrophic events than I thought. Instead we dismantled what preparations had been made shortly before needing them. (At least here in the USA, where we claim to be in the lead of everything.)

    • @emmata98
      @emmata98 3 года назад +1

      you fool ;)

  • @Scottocaster6668
    @Scottocaster6668 3 года назад +115

    The Sun can hear you Simon. Calling it a "Dick" may not be in our favor 😆.

    • @jasondantzler2708
      @jasondantzler2708 3 года назад +4

      😊 Funny.

    • @mashrien
      @mashrien 3 года назад +7

      Especially not with 2020/2021 being the magnificent clusterfuck they have been. Seems like poking a sleeping bear with a stick

    • @Scottocaster6668
      @Scottocaster6668 3 года назад +2

      @@mashrien haha, putting his paw in a bowl of warm water.

    • @jasondantzler2708
      @jasondantzler2708 3 года назад +3

      @@mashrien Or poking the sun with a stick. Which would be useless. Which would you rather poke? A bear, or a star?

    • @isee7668
      @isee7668 3 года назад +3

      that was funny

  • @samanthasays3603
    @samanthasays3603 3 года назад +4

    Excellent video, as always. It shows how dependent we've become on technology and the internet.
    Bravo for mentioning 2 of my favorite Beatles songs.

  • @elchinator
    @elchinator 3 года назад +2

    Simon, your forgot one very important fact: switching off computers will not help! As with any EMP, the destructive power affects electric leads, as they act like an antenna. The electricity is induced by the magnetic storm and fries the whole computer, even if it is shut down. The only protection is a Farraday Cage, but that won't help most of earth's electronic devices. Based on that, there will be no "coming out on the other side, slightly bothered by the outage"...

  • @bradhobbs6196
    @bradhobbs6196 3 года назад +67

    Simon: It could cost $2.6 Trillion Dollars!
    US Congress: Rookie numbers. Hold our beers.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 3 года назад +7

      AOC: WOW, the sun just caused my Green New Deal to come through and I didn't even have to vote for it!

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад +4

      @U WinTV CME's have nothing to do with Climate Change. Whether it is real or not does not influence CME frequency or severity.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад +3

      @U WinTV There really aren't many true "deniers", but there are many who question the politics of it, the corruption associated with it, and a fat former wannabe president poncing around the world being enriched by it. I actually don't care much either way, both sides are puerile and thuggish.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 3 года назад +2

      @U WinTV yes, it's great fun making fun of idiots who think the climate never changed before humans started driving cars.

    • @maplenook
      @maplenook 3 года назад

      Us won’t last that long

  • @4thbalanceofpower
    @4thbalanceofpower 3 года назад +43

    Simon making “number loving scientists” sound like an insult 😂

  • @AClericalRhino
    @AClericalRhino 3 года назад +23

    The anecdote about the Colorado miners cracked me up.

  • @PrezVeto
    @PrezVeto 3 года назад +5

    It's absolutely crazy that water-pumping equipment and enough generating equipment to power them aren't universally EM-shielded in developed countries.

  • @robsgirl7778
    @robsgirl7778 3 года назад +6

    Well being from Texas, and making it through the power grid failure this past February, I thing we have a pretty good idea of what that next Carrington event would feel like

    • @soil-play
      @soil-play 3 года назад +1

      Except that the actual electrical infrastructure would be destroyed and need to be remanufactured/replaced....

    • @MrT------5743
      @MrT------5743 3 года назад

      You also probably still had communications, TV, Phone etc to know what is happening. The next Carrington event, you will be without everything, food, water, communications, power, money, fuel, transportation etc.

  • @jebusfreak9339
    @jebusfreak9339 3 года назад +344

    Just smoked two bowls and am now 12 mins in and the anxiety is at a 10 lol

    • @purplepimple2610
      @purplepimple2610 3 года назад +8

      Cool pot reference

    • @BluePhoenix1973
      @BluePhoenix1973 3 года назад +3

      ooooppppsss! lol

    • @njrasmussen5515
      @njrasmussen5515 3 года назад +20

      Don't get too anxious man I understand I'm about to roll me a happy cigarette. No fear be prepared have yourself a backup plan. Canned goods last for years you can never have enough canned goods in your home. The kind of work I do when I go to an empty house that has cand goods doesn't matter the condition I take them roach poop and all I clean them off and store it!

    • @cbhaessig
      @cbhaessig 3 года назад +12

      That’s why you must do research and keep yourself informed. At the end the only one you can trust for the truth is yourself. We live in the era of Deception & the more we know, the more prepared we can be. But as you know MSM are there to keep people dumbed down & totally unaware of all that’s going on

    • @matthewkashnig3061
      @matthewkashnig3061 3 года назад +5

      Good. It's real and nobody is doing nothing about it. Kinda like 2008 crises. Everyone knew but nobody did nada

  • @randomeh393
    @randomeh393 3 года назад +67

    imagine if this had happened 2020. absolute year of hell

    • @Kanitoxx
      @Kanitoxx 3 года назад +7

      It might not be good to say, but we are going to be just getting out of the real second wave of Covid and we will get a solar flare that will disrupt everything in 2023-24... I'm absolutely sure about it

    • @humbertosantos6229
      @humbertosantos6229 3 года назад +8

      @@Kanitoxx Absolutely? What proof do you have to be "Absolutely" sure?
      What scientist team are you in?
      Where did you study?
      What's your background?

    • @Kanitoxx
      @Kanitoxx 3 года назад +4

      @@humbertosantos6229 I said it so blatantly to be wrong, hoping that nothing happens hahahaha

    • @nicholasvalentine3907
      @nicholasvalentine3907 3 года назад

      Maybe it will happen in 2020... damn I'm lost in time again!

    • @nicholasvalentine3907
      @nicholasvalentine3907 3 года назад +4

      @@Kanitoxx You're very much a glass half empty sort of chap, yes?

  • @bogbutter
    @bogbutter 3 года назад +36

    Things like this remind me that the sun IS, in fact, a star! My research (about stars in other galaxies) is so different from my day to day life (where the sun exists) that I forget that the sun, like other stars, acts like a dick sometimes

  • @piecanl
    @piecanl Год назад +1

    Imagine being so chronically online the Sun itself decides "that's it, no wifi for you"

  • @paulkurilecz4209
    @paulkurilecz4209 2 года назад +3

    "... spewing out material like a child projectile vomiting on a merry go round." Excellent allegory, I applaud your skills sir.

  • @leebuckley7436
    @leebuckley7436 3 года назад +74

    Quite good timing seeing as how we've just had a plasma filament eruption directly facing us and a c class CME to our left in the last 24 hours 👍

    • @ilovecoffeev
      @ilovecoffeev 3 года назад +2

      Got any links about this? I heard something but can't seem to find when I look for it

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 3 года назад +13

      @@ilovecoffeev go to Suspicious Observers here on utube. He covers space weather 7 days a week around 7am Eastern. Class c CME is small potatoes. Nothing to worry too much about. But then, 🔆 can do unexpected things at any time!:-| 🖖

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 3 года назад +5

      Class c. Pfft. Class m or X however, pray or cross your fingers or both!:-| 🖖

    • @leebuckley7436
      @leebuckley7436 3 года назад +10

      Yeah class c is piddly for sure but indicators are that the sun is indeed waking up. SuspiciousObservers is a great channel to follow, been an observer myself for 2 years

    • @hosmerhomeboy
      @hosmerhomeboy 3 года назад +10

      @@ilovecoffeev tamitha skov is another good space weather channel.
      I'm a big fan of a guy called anton petrov for most of my space based news.

  • @matthewryan647
    @matthewryan647 3 года назад +28

    Aurora Borealis, at this time of the day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen! Can I see it?

  • @semperfiguy98
    @semperfiguy98 3 года назад +276

    "there will always be an American waving a gun" ... Best line ever spoken

    • @awolfalone2006
      @awolfalone2006 3 года назад +36

      I was about to get defensive when he said that but then I remembered people shoot at hurricanes so...yeah, accurate.

    • @rickberrey1642
      @rickberrey1642 3 года назад +13

      ‘Murica!!!

    • @kyledonahue9315
      @kyledonahue9315 3 года назад +26

      God willing ✊😌

    • @314jeepsnmopars3
      @314jeepsnmopars3 3 года назад +2

      Truest

    • @bamarock929
      @bamarock929 3 года назад +36

      Better than waving a white flag

  • @jerryvanderwier2310
    @jerryvanderwier2310 3 года назад +5

    I feel you may have greatly minimized a worst case event. Large transformers like the ones that step power at the edge of a nuclear power stations take years to order, build, deliver, and install. Due to their large size and weight they often need the shut down and even the temporary removal of some bridges and roads to transport across the world to its new location. Further, only a few companies in the world build transformers. If a large number of them were knocked out across the world, it would take years just to build the manufactuing plants that would be needed to build replacements. Considering this would be a one-off build demand, prices to build new transformer factories and transformers would exponentially grow as one can't recoup the cost over time. This alone will hamper replacements. The world will need replacements at the time of destruction, and only then; not after that as they last many decades once installed. Economic impacts and electric power service in poorer or more dificult to replace areas will likely be felt for many decades. Add to this the greater demand for and replacement of fossil fuel vehicles with electric vehicles, will impact the transportation of all goods as we move down this evolution in transportation. And this doesn't even touch on the long term loss of traffic lights, food security due to freezer and refrigeration loss, and much more. Deaths from traffic accidents, food losses, heat exhaustion, loss of critical medicines/supplies, loss of water control pump stations, and much more would likely be measured in the millions and would particularly impact first world countries, which rely on very long supply chains and just-in-time deliveries. As of at least 2015, the US was greatly unprepared for this possibility and under the Trump administration it likely has not improved since. The power industry hadn't had any coordinated exercises, guidance, nor requirements to prepare for this eventuality. Additionally, local Public Utility oversight often gets in the way of prudent costly measures to insure this kind of impact as their elected leaders focus on controling immediate electric costs. While it should not be too costly to prepare for in the large scheme of things, it does require a well exercised international response plan and inventory and/or capacity build-up.

  • @boudicaastorm4540
    @boudicaastorm4540 2 года назад +3

    Lack of tech connection would be psychologically devastating of course, but all I can think about is the people who literally rely on things like life support in hospitals or at home and who would be totally the most in danger in this kind of situation. I hope it's well after 2023, we need a freaking break after these past few years of absolute worldwide hell.

  • @Reality_Filter
    @Reality_Filter 3 года назад +16

    Ah yes, nothing like a "steamed ham" for Super Nintendo Chalmers...

  • @bigernmccracken5736
    @bigernmccracken5736 3 года назад +14

    Analogy Of The Year Award goes to: “Like a queasy kid projectile vomiting off the merry-go-round.”

  • @JFromLA99
    @JFromLA99 3 года назад +37

    I apreciate that simon writes titles like Mr. Blue Sky & Waiting For The Sun

    • @SkywalkerSamadhi
      @SkywalkerSamadhi 3 года назад +5

      I'm wondering if it is actually Simon writing them. I don't know how the dude has time to brush his hair, with all the channels he has. I sometimes try to find the which videos he recorded on the same day by matching his shirts.

    • @JFromLA99
      @JFromLA99 3 года назад

      @@SkywalkerSamadhi honestly i think the guy just wakes up and pisses excellence

    • @thisisntsergio1352
      @thisisntsergio1352 3 года назад

      @@SkywalkerSamadhi I noticed he's on a lot of different channels. Can you help me with a list of as many as you know?

    • @samuelmade5776
      @samuelmade5776 3 года назад

      Here comes the sun was a quote from one of the last songs of Bill Wurtz

    • @benhook1013
      @benhook1013 3 года назад +2

      *He has writers

  • @TwelveFrames
    @TwelveFrames 3 года назад +4

    Ha! Never in my life would I think that Bealton, VA (where I lived once upon a time) would EVER pop up in a Simon video.

  • @ingridfong-daley5899
    @ingridfong-daley5899 3 года назад +2

    I'm loving the song-title section headers--Thanks for an interesting video AND the surprise smiles :)

  • @BobbyB910
    @BobbyB910 3 года назад +27

    In the late 90s I remember seeing the northern lights in Texas it’s the only time I’ve ever seen it. I live in Michigan now and still haven’t seen the northern lights

    • @avanellehansen4525
      @avanellehansen4525 3 года назад +1

      On my bucket list

    • @VictoriousGardenosaurus
      @VictoriousGardenosaurus 3 года назад +1

      What part of Michigan? I grew up in WI, 10 miles from the UP border and regularly saw them.

    • @BobbyB910
      @BobbyB910 3 года назад

      @@VictoriousGardenosaurus flint

    • @BobbyB910
      @BobbyB910 3 года назад

      @@VictoriousGardenosaurus but not the ghetto part lol

    • @karmasutra4774
      @karmasutra4774 2 года назад

      I saw some in the early 2000’s in Georgia one night

  • @equimanthorn6185
    @equimanthorn6185 3 года назад +7

    What a beautiful way to start off the week. Thank you, Simon.

  • @Honor_and_Steel
    @Honor_and_Steel 3 года назад +6

    I live close to Bealeton. Can confirm that people out this way are EXACTLY like this.

  • @LittleDergon
    @LittleDergon 3 года назад +10

    I studied CMEs and their effects on our magnetic field for my university degree so this video was right up my alley! 😁

    • @tammyvanwinkle8870
      @tammyvanwinkle8870 3 года назад

      So, did you study cyclical micronova? I've been a daily viewer of YT Suspicious Observers. Top Notch solar new and science.

    • @LittleDergon
      @LittleDergon 3 года назад +2

      @@tammyvanwinkle8870 I studied the CME effects on two layers of our atmosphere to try to prove there was a connection between the two due to the CME despite there being another atmospheric layer between them that didn't react to CMEs. It was for my final dissertation which is why it ended up weirdly specific 😅

    • @tammyvanwinkle8870
      @tammyvanwinkle8870 3 года назад +1

      @@LittleDergon That's amazing. Thanks for sharing. Love and respect 🌻🌹🦋🙏🏻

  • @sidearmsalpha
    @sidearmsalpha 2 года назад +2

    It's crazy how our reliance on modern technology is such a double-edged sword.

    • @AL_THOMAS_777
      @AL_THOMAS_777 Год назад

      🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 YOU BET !!!

  • @Ravenforce3
    @Ravenforce3 3 года назад +27

    Just what I needed on my day off: another source of dread I can't control. Greaaaaaat.

  • @LothlorianOG
    @LothlorianOG 3 года назад +4

    For anyone interested, Id recommend a book called "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. While it was written about an EMP attack (which was all the craze when it was written), the issues faced during a blackout are applicable to this sort of event as well.

  • @eustache_dauger
    @eustache_dauger 3 года назад +204

    Keeping my porn stash in Faraday cage in case it becomes currency in post-apocalyptic, post-internet world 😎

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад +17

      In a similar survivalist vein, I have researched ways of keeping my beer stockpiles cold! Good to see we have our priorities right.

    • @wefukthenwo
      @wefukthenwo 3 года назад +9

      $20 for a large 4x4 copper sheet from ebay. Good idea!

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 3 года назад +6

      Anything that is of value to another would be good bartering things. Even fool's gold (a form of iron: pyrite).

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 3 года назад +5

      @@owenshebbeare2999
      Best to learn how to brew hops yourself.

    • @VosperCDN
      @VosperCDN 3 года назад +2

      Oh, look at the big brain dude over here ... !

  • @cavetroll
    @cavetroll Год назад

    A very nice and concise description of the aiming process squire. Your videos really are invaluable!

  • @LittleDergon
    @LittleDergon 3 года назад +4

    I'm surprised that you didn't emphasise that larger solar storms are not just powerful but because they are physically bigger, they take longer to pass. So even if we shut down the power grids for the storms duration, we would still be off line for a minimum of a few days

  • @christina1wilson
    @christina1wilson 3 года назад +10

    We're doomed. Politicians who listen? Where do you find those?

  • @daviddonohue7365
    @daviddonohue7365 3 года назад +4

    Simon always says thanks for watching and I would just like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING AWESOME VIDEOS ON ALL YOUR CHANNELS🤙🏽🤙🏽👊🏽👊🏽

  • @thomasfholland
    @thomasfholland 3 года назад +15

    If a Carrington Event occurred again today it’s destructive effects would be larger because of the decreasing strength of the earth’s magnetosphere. The strength of the earth’s magnetic field has decreased by 20% compared to 150 years ago.

  • @shaunnormancroft
    @shaunnormancroft 3 года назад +3

    the scariest thing is a cashless society where all your cash is stored on computers and it all gets wiped out, so yes we definitely are screwed.

  • @shizukaakatatsu22
    @shizukaakatatsu22 6 месяцев назад +1

    May 2024: People posted Pictures of the Aurora down in Cuba. So far I haven't heard of damages to power grids or so, but there's still a few days left. I personally just changed my sleep scedule to chill out the nights on my balcony and watch the sky light up like a disco ball. The sun is having a party and was friendly enough to invite us insignificant earthlings. It would be incredibly rude of us not to attend!

  • @eliskwire
    @eliskwire 3 года назад +15

    Québec, mostly known internationally for Celine Dion, poutine and the '89's blackout.

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob 3 года назад +1

      Actually, the 1989 solar storm blackout in Quebec was a less significant event in its history than either the 1987 floods in Montreal from an especially strong thunderstorm or the 1998 ice storm. Though it was quite a significant event in the annals of solar storms!

  • @Restilia_ch
    @Restilia_ch 3 года назад +5

    It is precisely the possibility of an event like this hitting us (among other disasters) that led my family to keep a couple weeks worth of water, a whole mess of food, and a generator and fuel to run it for weeks on hand at all times. Hell we just added solar panels to the house so if those don't fry the whole house could be run during the day, which means the fridge and freezer would be just fine to the point we could spare electricity for neighbors.

    • @Cec9e13
      @Cec9e13 Год назад +1

      Hmmmm. I wonder what WOULD happen to solar panels.

  • @KrisDouglas
    @KrisDouglas 3 года назад +40

    Okay something is going on here. Someone randomly comes up to me yesterday talking about the Carrington event, i then get a video recommendation from Fascinating Horror about it, then today, you post this video... And what is even more strange, a scientist I know mentioned 3 days ago that there are signs of a Carrington Event coming very soon... I'm no tinfoil hat wearer, but... Wuuuuut?

    • @barrydysert2974
      @barrydysert2974 3 года назад +8

      We are all waking up to the danger. No tinfoil needed just the truth!:-| 🖖

    • @brianmartindale2221
      @brianmartindale2221 3 года назад +13

      Signs of Google listening in, more like it. You're on rhythm, man! Word moves faster than a sunspot!

    • @BamBoomBots
      @BamBoomBots 3 года назад +2

      Memetic networks.

    • @JosiahofSilverton
      @JosiahofSilverton 3 года назад +6

      Well there was a mild solar storm recently that hit the Earth with a higher than normal amount of radiation. Not enough to cause any damage, but enough to make people start talking about the Carrington event.

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 3 года назад +5

      No one told you your phone is smart? And that it has a microphone?
      Try this: talk about a random thing, then google it. After typing the first four letters, google gives the suggestion, most of the time correct. Its listening to you, simple as that

  • @dancingcarapace
    @dancingcarapace Год назад +1

    If you want a semi realistic but also fantastical idea of how life after a Geomagnetic event would be, I’d seriously recommend trying out The Long Dark, a survival game where you try to survive after your plane crashes during the First Flare into the northern Canadian island of Great Bear Island.

  • @moneypitmagnum1812
    @moneypitmagnum1812 Год назад +1

    It just hit a few days ago, the sky was filled with Arora borrealis in Northern Wisconsin. Brightest I had ever seen.

  • @bobbiscub
    @bobbiscub 3 года назад +9

    To be honest, I was expecting for one of these CMEs to happen December 2020. Lmao

  • @LordRefa
    @LordRefa 3 года назад +20

    I had a positive mind about our chances until 19:57..
    Oh God, We are all going to die.

    • @fresanegra77
      @fresanegra77 3 года назад +2

      Please, please insert a Half Life scientist screaming WE'RE DOOMED! here

    • @bkwillia78
      @bkwillia78 3 года назад +2

      Good lord, please save us from the populists.

  • @jordangoodin9362
    @jordangoodin9362 3 года назад +5

    The radiation storm is like a Dragon Sneezing Fire at you.

  • @robnoxiousplays2385
    @robnoxiousplays2385 3 года назад +2

    The sheer cheek in this script. I love it.

  • @Amarianee
    @Amarianee 3 года назад +4

    Lmao, hubby and I were talking about the degradation of society the other day, and I literally referenced this, "it's ok, we're just a bad solar flare away from complete destruction."

  • @brentgranger7856
    @brentgranger7856 3 года назад +7

    I asked for this last year, and now you’ve delivered! Thanks, Geographics! The 2012 near miss very nearly ruined my trip overseas the month after it happened.

  • @Schumanized
    @Schumanized 3 года назад +4

    Simon. The most hard working man on youtube🙏🏾

    • @jumbicat1929
      @jumbicat1929 Год назад

      Really? Isn't it Ben that gives real time updates to his channel? Everyday?

  • @fdmackey3666
    @fdmackey3666 3 года назад +5

    I recall the 1989 event all to well. Back then mobile phones and pagers were the THING for those who could afford them. When the event, as covered in this video, occurred emergency communications all but came to a halt in the South East U.S. of A.. Doctors/surgeons, nurses, and Emergency Response Personnel/Agencies who depended on ANALOG systems had to resort to land lines for communications in many cases. It was only in mid 1990 that systems cleared up, mostly, and things returned to normal. It was probably around 1999-2001 that Emergency Response Systems fully recovered, and thanks to digital systems, that "skip" (think being in North Eastern South Carolina, being a First Responder, and having Security Officers in Atlanta, Georgia reporting their rounds to their home bases interfering with your emergency radio traffic. It was NOT their fault....And it sucked!!!) It was so bad at one point that my Shift Sergeant was able to talk, via Police radio, with his Los Angeles, California based counterpart. So yeah folks....The sun can be a fickle bitch.

    • @jamescoop8979
      @jamescoop8979 3 года назад +1

      I was riding in a armored vehicle in Germany, looked up, saw all that going on and thought we had just been Nuked.

  • @DramaMustRemainOnTheStage
    @DramaMustRemainOnTheStage 3 года назад +2

    I do love at least 3 of your channels. I'm looking for more. I love your content Simon

    • @izzzthewizzz
      @izzzthewizzz 2 года назад

      Same this man is a virtual gold mine of good content

  • @Suisfonia
    @Suisfonia 3 года назад +1

    Something I want to point out; but the reason why the telegraph machines were affected was because of the wiring (The electrical energy given off by the event surged into the wires, shorting them out as they weren't designed to handle the load, that's why that one person got some rather unneeded shock therapy). The Carrington Event is akin to a large EMP blast, this is why turning off electronics won't stop them from being damaged or even destroyed. Transformers are especially vulnerable due to the amount of wiring in them.
    Remember, you're talking hundreds of thousands of kilovolts being dumped into a network that wasn't designed to handle that type of a load all at once, while it is true that some transformers will survive, many will not and those that do will require months of repair and well we already know which one's will be prioritized. Despite our advances in technology, the wiring we use in mainstream power lines and transformers isn't designed to handle the load.
    When this event occurs again, and we know it will, turning off the power grid won't save it. The best we can do is have backup transformers located within secured warehouses (one's shielded from EMP, and yes those exist) that can be rolled out to replace those destroyed. However, keep in mind that there are *millions* of the small one's located all around the world and hundreds of thousands of the larger ones, it would take *decades* for things to go back to normal, if it would be possible (such an event would trigger the ugly side of humanity)

  • @TheStaticJedi
    @TheStaticJedi 3 года назад +31

    You can always count on a Statesider to have a gun somewhere 😂

    • @HexenProzess
      @HexenProzess 3 года назад +12

      The way it should be

    • @TheStaticJedi
      @TheStaticJedi 3 года назад +3

      @@HexenProzess bad form

    • @jamescoop8979
      @jamescoop8979 3 года назад +3

      A Gun?? You mean several guns!

    • @quentindaniels7460
      @quentindaniels7460 3 года назад +4

      True that. Unfortunately I dropped mine in the lake...

    • @jamescoop8979
      @jamescoop8979 3 года назад +5

      @@quentindaniels7460
      Same here....boating accident...happens alot here in the States does it not?

  • @beachcaving
    @beachcaving 3 года назад +26

    And some ppl believe they are "in charge"! LMAO. Just a pebble of sand on the beachhead of life!🤯🤘

    • @The_Good_Captain
      @The_Good_Captain 3 года назад +3

      i kinda want it to happen now just to see "online influencers" lose their 💩😂

    • @jasonb9562
      @jasonb9562 3 года назад +3

      Natural disasters are nature's way of telling humans "y'all ain't shit!"

  • @thedarkonestaint6105
    @thedarkonestaint6105 3 года назад +32

    Again, Simon reminds me of humanity's insignificance and our impending doom. Thank you

    • @jamesharding3459
      @jamesharding3459 3 года назад +4

      Not really. This would do fuck all to pre-industrial societies. It’s just our reliance on technology that makes us vulnerable.
      Of course, we do have Faraday Cages.

    • @joshwhite5407
      @joshwhite5407 3 года назад

      Before COVID. You took for granted the fact that you looked at the government as a benevolent guardian. Congrats on the death of your naïveté.

    • @thedarkonestaint6105
      @thedarkonestaint6105 3 года назад

      @@joshwhite5407 what idiot has ever seen our government as the benevolent guardian?

    • @joshwhite5407
      @joshwhite5407 3 года назад

      @@thedarkonestaint6105 the person I had replied to removed their comment/tag..

  • @gnadenhofluna3388
    @gnadenhofluna3388 3 года назад +1

    Brilliant as always

  • @v0ldy54
    @v0ldy54 6 месяцев назад +1

    Even scarier, apparently in 774-775 it is suspected that an event that was at least 10 times more powerful than Carrington's one happened based on the worldwide amount of Carbon 14, which spiked extremely fast pretty much everywhere on Earth suggesting atmospheric (and extraterrestrial) origin.
    Something like that would completely devastate power grids worldwide

  • @adolfwasrite7009
    @adolfwasrite7009 3 года назад +4

    "Couldn't be worse than 2020" is my new favorite comparison.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 3 года назад +1

      worse than the great 2020 toilet paper disaster? Oh my!

    • @lisaschuster9187
      @lisaschuster9187 3 года назад

      @@jwenting, When I lived in Holland, everyone used newspaper, so I laughed at all that TP silliness. But who gets newspapers anymore?

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 3 года назад

      @@lisaschuster9187 nobody uses newspapers as toilet paper.
      They're handy at the bottom of the cats' litter box, but that's about it. Not worth reading.

  • @heartlandokie4485
    @heartlandokie4485 3 года назад +10

    One will hit us tomorrow but it's only magnitude 3. Could be some electronic interference and definitely some beautiful auroras. We are entering a grand minimum cycle for the sun and a maximum sunspot cycle at the same time. Expect crazy weather.

    • @allegralikessunnydays1704
      @allegralikessunnydays1704 3 года назад +1

      Thank you! Our tech at work stopped today, no idea why till reading this.

    • @heartlandokie4485
      @heartlandokie4485 3 года назад +3

      @@allegralikessunnydays1704 I would almost bet the Coronal hole stream that just hit us from the Sun last night is the reason for your instruments confusion. The Grand Minimum comes with enormous Coronal holes that send masses of charged particles into the upper atmosphere and it feeds down through the global electric circuit and back up again.

    • @allegralikessunnydays1704
      @allegralikessunnydays1704 3 года назад +2

      @@heartlandokie4485 I'm going to sound so smart when I tell work that! Thank you and have a wonderful day.

  • @IamSnowbird
    @IamSnowbird 3 года назад +4

    How have I never heard of this. That's why I love your channels.

  • @andycampano
    @andycampano 3 года назад +2

    It's nice to know someone with a wide platform is sharing the knowledge bc most people seem to believe ignorance is bliss. Nothing can stop what's coming ✨☀️