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I don't know why you're being downvoted for quoting Spaceballs.
New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
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Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#12I’m curious what humans at the time would have felt, if anything.
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#13Doesn't that roughly coincide with the Younger Dryas?
Yes, such a fun topic…
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#14Is this not one of the Miyake Events[1]? This particular one was reported in 2023 [2]. [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event [2]. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02624...
The article notes it is. The article seems to focus on the new discovery of just how strong the particular event seems to have been compared to the others, not the initial discovery of the event itself.
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#15This would not have been kind to any RF/EMF systems, be they GEO, LEO or terrestrial. We'd have been walking around marvelling at st elmo's fire coming off any point-contact junction between metal or exposed metal structure, with the most fantastic skies at night. On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-s…
How would this effect computers and everyday electrical devices? If we detected something like this heading towards us would we have to turn everything off for the day/week? That's just not possible though is it, can't just turn off nuclear power plants for the day.
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#16This would not have been kind to any RF/EMF systems, be they GEO, LEO or terrestrial. We'd have been walking around marvelling at st elmo's fire coming off any point-contact junction between metal or exposed metal structure, with the most fantastic skies at night. On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-s…
Damn, you took me from “hope that doesn’t happen again in my lifetime” to “oh Jesus please let that happen tomorrow” in just a few words.
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#17Doesn't that roughly coincide with the Younger Dryas?
This was my first thought. It seems this solar event happened over 1000 years before Younger Dryas
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#18This would not have been kind to any RF/EMF systems, be they GEO, LEO or terrestrial. We'd have been walking around marvelling at st elmo's fire coming off any point-contact junction between metal or exposed metal structure, with the most fantastic skies at night. On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-s…
You're overestimating the effects. They would have been imperceptible on the ground, except for the stunning aurorae.
Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC
#19This would not have been kind to any RF/EMF systems, be they GEO, LEO or terrestrial. We'd have been walking around marvelling at st elmo's fire coming off any point-contact junction between metal or exposed metal structure, with the most fantastic skies at night. On the other hand, would allergy sufferers be marvelling at the removal of all the dust and pollen? This would be like the outdoors becoming a giant anti-s…
How would this effect computers and everyday electrical devices? If we detected something like this heading towards us would we have to turn everything off for the day/week? That's just not possible though is it, can't just turn off nuclear power plants for the day.
There won't be any effect.
Solar flares do NOT affect the devices on the ground. All the fast-moving charged particles are completely absorbed in the upper atmosphere. And to give you some perspective, the most energetic flares can produce 10^-3 W/m^2 flux at the Earth's orbit.
The flares do affect the geomagnetic field. And a changing magnetic field induces current, but it becomes non-negligible only for very long conductors. So long-distance power transmission lines might suddenly become biased with a persistent DC voltage, and some long optical cables might start experiencing over/undervoltage problems with amplifiers.
But locally? You won't see anything unusual.
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#20> This event establishes a new worst-case scenario
This person’s definition of “worst-case scenario” is much different than mine.
We don’t know with certainty what the universe will throw at us.
We just do the very best we sensibly can.
Why should we assume that the worst thing that could happen to us happened within the past 20K years?