Breaking: Giant Sunspot AR3664 Could Unleash Catastrophic Solar Storms!

Explore the dangers of Sunspot AR3664 in today's episode! This colossal sunspot is visible with basic eclipse glasses and is causing concern at NOAA due to its potential to unleash disruptive solar flares and geomagnetic storms. Discover how these cosmic events could impact everything from your GPS to the global power grid. Stay informed and prepared with us!
• We Are at Risk! The Up...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:42 AR3664 - A Solar Behemoth
04:22 Echoes of The Carrington Event
07:41 What If History Repeats?
11:14 Outro
11:36 Enjoy
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[@erikarabie]

The Sun has a right to defend itself

[@TheFunkybert]

So you are PRO-SUN now?!!

[@MadMagyar13]

We’ve got a sun sympathizer here

[@loadedwrench14]

FREE THE SUN!!

[@guynorth3277]

I've got the Sun in the morning and the Moon at Night!

[@Lisa1111]

I like that! And so does our Mother Earth. Happy Mother's Day, you....🌍

[@johnl.8616]

🎶 There's a little black spot on the 🌞 today.... The same ole one as yesterday....🎶

[@ceramicemu2063]

That’s my soul up there…

[@Unknown17]

There's a black hat caught in a high treetop. There's a flag pulled ragged and the wind won't stop.

[@bluemoon-pm5hv]

Oh,I so remember that tune✌️❤️

[@2010RSHACKS]

Black hole sun

[@ceramicemu2063]

The original was before my time. I first heard it as Queen of Pain, covered by Alanis Morissette.

[@your20downrange]

Observers have been aware of the dangers for years.

[@davidarundel6187]

Every solar cycle .

[@qcislander]

@your20downrange For decades. I knew this shit (not as well as now, for sure) 50 years ago.

[@marrok2169]

we did our homework!

[@CallMeA6]

So NASA now admits the government has been planning for a likely collapse of civilization. Wonder what they’ve come up with for continuation of government? Nice bunkers? 🤷‍♂️

[@michaelteran3844]

Especially Suspicious Observers

[@heathermichael3987]

I support the sun .

[@Tuzzie902]

I stand with sol

[@bb5979]

I stand with my species

[@TheNoobTrooper]

Praise the sun

[@memyselfandi5956]

I voted SUN

[@davidjones6389]

I support the earth, that's where I keep my stuff.

[@keithsextonakathebluerose]

They know how scary the Sun is. They don't want to frighten the children.

[@rxibot]

The thing is, the children aren't afraid. They want to know what to do to prevent such a bad response in the future. That's the difference between their generation and ours. We are raised with duck and cover. They were raised with what happens if.

[@randalthor6872]

I disagree. They go out of their way to KEEP everyone frightened over threats, exaggerated and also not.

[@ericswain4177]

LMFAO !

[@3pendont4]

use a magnetic pulser tuned to 7.83 hrz and a HARRP wave blocker in home and property

[@3pendont4]

block it w a pulser

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

Me and the sun go back 40 years.....

[@user-zv4ee1vi7t]

68 🤗

[@Petunia-Greene]

I’ve taken a few trips around the Sun myself!!

[@muth7813]

🤣

[@montanasbigsky]

You go back farther than that. We don't remember our "pre-mortal" state right now. I get the joke, and it's funny, It's just what I thought about after I laughed about it.

[@bettykelly7542]

78 trips

[@DamnedSilly]

Not often made clear is the fact that warning of a major event can't actually travel much faster than the event itself and, when it comes right down to it, there's nothing that can usefully be done anyway.

[@donnievance1942]

The warning travels at the speed of light. The sun is only eight lightminutes away. Propagation of a mass ejection is vastly slower than that. There can be many hours or even a couple of days of warning. However, you're right that not much can usefully be done about it. However, individual people can take survival precautions, like filling up water containers, for example.

[@lionman8523]

Neutrinos will give it away before anything.

[@patrickbrogan3323]

they dont say it but they can power down the grid, which should prevent us losing it , but I doubt they are going to do that! the program that watches the suns eruptions is called the ENLIL sopiral, if you know history you will know why its named after him!

[@motorcitymadman146]

FACT!

[@anim8torfiddler871]

@@lionman8523 Thanks for the reminder. I'm going to start carrying my handy little pocket Neutrino detector as my backup EDC!!! < =ºÞ

[@RoySATX]

I, too, have sudden bursts of energy when I get twisted and sheared.

[@OneLeggedTarantula]

suddenly everyone is an expert on 3664...

[@dnaflowz]

I’m totally confused has it not already hit for today?

[@TheGlobalTravelr]

It’s just a number.

[@ix-Xafra]

Numbers and math are racist...

[@ix-Xafra]

My reply got deleted - ok who was it?

[@babzcovington492]

and the carrington effect. join me won't you, in not sleeping well?

[@r1ch4rdw4gn3r]

No mention of the weakening magnetic field of our planet?? It has gone down some 30%+ since the 1859‘s Carrington Event. That’s the real danger here, because we are becoming more and more vulnerable…

[@DamnedSilly]

Where are you getting that number? I've heard it referenced but the biggest I've ever seen from reputable sources is less than 10%. Believe it or not, there wasn't a lot of scientific measurement of Earth's magnetic field happening around 1860. On the other hand, click bait is a powerful force that can make numbers magically appear from thin air.

[@amy99butler]

Suspicious0bservers

[@bmatt2626]

@@DamnedSilly I thought there's a geological/archeological record for Earth's magnetic field.

[@onearmedwolf6512]

@@amy99butler he males factual statements about things he cant possibly know

[@mathetes7759]

New data from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellites show that Earth's magnetic field is losing 5% of its strength annually, a rate roughly 10 times faster than previously predicted! The result is if we were to get hit by a solar storm like the 1859 one, it would be devastating to our modern technology

[@Medic397]

Global warming! Climate change! The sun says "here, hold my beer" 😂

[@jamesconley9753]

Ssshhhhhhh you’re gonna screw up the whole green energy sham!

[@NateOlson]

🙄

[@KoRntech]

​@@jamesconley975327 gigatons of CO2 every year into the atmosphere from burning carbon to boil water and move pistons is no small potatoes.

[@clown134]

@@KoRntech these people have no perspective. theyll never accept the reality of climate change

[@MauriceOldis]

@@jamesconley9753 such childish bullshit!!!..CO2 is a warming gas-known since 1858,Human burning of fossils fuels(sequestered carbon) has increased CO2 levels from 280ppm to 425 ppm over the industrial era.Atmospheric and sea temperatures (and levels) are rising consequentially .Oil (and coal)company scientists accurately predicted the impacts from the 1960s onward -and monitored CO2 levels on oil supertankers for example.Those companies chose to disguise,misinform and foster denial instead in order to keep profits rolling in for as long as possible!! To bad for life on the earth-it is and will continue to be more and more disrupted.(An inconvenient truth for sure!!)

[@ecs1398]

Kinda late. Prefer Suspicious Observers

[@HoneyBadger80886]

And DailyEventsWorldwide

[@LazerR0cketB0mb]

The lawyer conspiracy guy?

[@donwilson4934]

Stefan burns is really thorough and also talks about the potential biological effects

[@kimberkimKC]

@@LazerR0cketB0mb oooh, he was! Sounds like you haven't checked him out in many years. You should go see what he has to offer now.

[@keithsextonakathebluerose]

I've been an SO for almost 13 years now.

[@solos7685]

You should have mentioned that this Sunspot is already left the solar disc... but if you look 3663 and is still throwing off X flares on the backside of the Sun... the sunspots don't magically disappear just because they go to the other side... there is some absolutely huge pretty sunspots coming into view off of the Northeast limb

[@bruanlokisson8615]

sunspots move around on the sun and we move around the sun as well.

[@solos7685]

@@bruanlokisson8615 well that's why it's so hot in here🤘🏻💀

[@alienrefugee51]

Generally, sunspots tend to die out once they traverse the backside, but because AR3664 is so large and has a very complex config and mixing, I wouldn't be surprised if it survives. The question is, will it lose it's magnetic complexity, stay the same, or grow?

[@markaz2kk]

The last three days, we definitely saw the very bright pink and red haze lights above us... And were down south of Melbourne, Australia.

[@BeSatori]

"More prepared than ever before"?! We are f'd beyond nuclear war when a carrington caliber event hits us again.

[@donnievance1942]

Yeah. World-wide power grids have done nothing remotely adequate to dealing with a Carrington event. It's one of the more infuriating facts about our hapless civilization. Preparing grids and electronic infrastructure to deal with it would be enormously expensive, but only a tiny fraction of what is involved in addressing climate change.

[@Haywire-Alguire]

Nobody is prepared. That includes all the countries and leaders on this planet !!

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

The only people that won't be impacted are the Sentinelese and the hardcore Amish

[@marvinpercival4717]

They r gonna fire a nuke and blame the sun .sYing it was a cme event.

[@chuckevans2792]

@@donnievance1942 Only a fraction of what they already wasted with no effect produced.

[@MichaelSHartman]

The flare hit, and I didn’t even notice. I am disappointed I missed tge Northern Lights.

[@infinidominion]

Look tonight, this recent event wasn't a quick thing, it was at least 7 major storms over a few days

[@jebes909090]

ya it was totally overhyped. i guess these doomer sites need something to latch onto

[@marty3888]

I went out on Saturday and last night. Nothing. Maybe tonight.

[@doesnotFempute]

they'll be back, don't worry. We are in the end times. Don't be scared. Buckle up and enjoy!

[@susanfarley1332]

@@doesnotFempute over and over I have heard people say it's is the end of times over and over again. They were sure the end of times were going to happen in the year 1,000. And it did not. When I was kid back in the 1960's they said the same thing. And it did not happen. Are people who always get excited about stuff and start predicting the end of times in some kind of death cult. They seem thrilled that it's going to happen. Like they look forward to dying. Well, count me out because I think it's a load of BS. Like mere humans can know the mind of God. Even the Bible says no one knows the mind of God. Anyone who thinks they do is fooling themselves. BS

[@susanalley1484]

Wait until the Polar Reversal! This is nothing.

[@andrewandres148]

Could set up for it with the weak magnetic field right now on Earth...

[@margaretneanover3385]

Lol. Well they have no idea what it's gonna be unless this is it .

[@albclean]

Good.

[@royamberg9177]

when is that going to happen

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

A ‘pole reversal’ scenario would take thousands of years.

[@tripledair]

I appreciate the way...he reads...the script...during this entire...video.

[@lockpickrogue-yc5wc]

@@rotormandan2657 it is for children and the senile

[@feeatlastfeeatlast5283]

How about the 962 different video clips?

[@tripledair]

@@feeatlastfeeatlast5283 a virtual masterpiece

[@DavidDavis-wd1qb]

Northern lights are moving south as seen in the UK over the last few days

[@dickmartn]

We are getting them in Northern Mexico

[@TheFunkybert]

Because the earths magnetic sphere is weakening

[@davidarundel6187]

They are also moving north , as seen from new Zealand , several times this year , there's been Aroura , seen in high latitudes of new Zealand .

[@rudolfsykora3505]

Exactly, even in Belgium yesterday

[@hackjealousy]

They were seen in the Caribbean.

[@wyocowboynblue9011]

Where is my Google Global Warning explanation telling me this was caused by CO2?

[@donnievance1942]

Maybe you ate something infested with mold. Sometimes that can have psychotropic effects.

[@joseh3564]

Donnie: give the radical nature worshippers time to invent how this is man's fault that the Sun is acting as it is. 100%

[@CharlieWhitewolf]

We might be prepared to understand what's going on, However we are not prepared to counter its destruction. if this was so. we wouldn't worry about it.

[@vstobinski]

Magnetic field of Earth now weaker 30% then during Carrington event

[@rudolfsykora3505]

30% ? Are you sure ?

[@vstobinski]

@@rudolfsykora3505 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field#/media/File%3AGeomagnetic_axial_dipole_strength.svg

[@TheReckoningBeginsToday]

I usually bench consistently 250 lbs 10-12 reps, the last week or so I did 325 lbs, easily.

[@vstobinski]

@TheReckoningBeginsToday good for you.

[@DamnedSilly]

@@TheReckoningBeginsToday That would be a gravity shift not a change in the magnetic field.

[@johnburnside7828]

Isn't NOAA generally pronounced "Noah"?

[@andrewandres148]

Makes me think it is computer generated voice

[@channelview8854]

Yeah, it's AI

[@johnburnside7828]

@@andrewandres148 Could be, although I haven't heard this one before, and in general it does better than most.

[@andrewandres148]

@@johnburnside7828 I agree, they are getting better.... I bet they start with a real guy saying a word in different ways, and pick from the different choices.... Beginning, middle, end of sentence for an example... But the fact that "Noah" is not a comparable pronunciation tells one of possible non-english orrigins... I would guess China..

[@Danny-ho4fd]

Explains the meta pause hot flashes lol ..😮

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

Sorry can you please explain the meta pause hot flashes?

[@Maevelikeschampagne]

Yeah explain that please.

[@ryanwood6006]

​@@LunaRoseStarLightlol I think they mean menopause. But that comment coming from a guy named Danny us a bit puzzling 😂

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

​@@ryanwood6006oh no so it's just menapause I am feeling with my insane hot flashes 😂😂

[@mikemph7779]

That’s just a nice way of saying “you irritate me”

[@chrisbatman1566]

Here is my concern, natural gas lines. In Massachusetts there was a major incident where someone made a mistake that led to excessive gas being sent to homes and multiple explosions occurred. If some controllers or valves controlling gas pressure are run digitally, with no analog safety over-pressure valves, could that result in over-pressured lines everywhere?

[@istp1967]

I say, bring it on! I wouldn't mind going back to a pre WW1 world.

[@ApacheMagic]

Yes you would, unless you already live on an inaccessible island and are totally self sufficient. No power means no food. No vehicle with any electronics would work. Planes would fall out the sky. People would start to starve in isolation in no time at all. Cities would become sbout as safe as a zombie apocalypse. Every hospital and aged care facility would become a mausoleum overnight as power loss wipes out all life support systems. No communication, no coherent organisation, the weak would become prey and the criminal would rule, for a while until they are each other. I would say it would take about 2 weeks for people to turn on each other completely. ‘Far better prepared than ever before’ Is a complete lie! Either that or totally gormless. We wouldn’t get through a single day without major disasters. We are worse off than ever before because we are completely reliant upon technology. If people complained x as bout lockdown they’ll be rioting over this, futile pointless rage looking to blame everyone else.

[@user-in3br2qs8x]

@@ApacheMagic No sir. Not all electronics woul fail if a Sun´s Solarstorm would come. Only 99% of electronics would fail! 1% would survive (such as that being used from a Gameboy (original Gameboy with 4 AA-batteries). that chip is solar-storm save! Only MODERN chips would burn-through. Older chips can survive. And you would not go back to a pre WW1-world, but only to ~1980s. Same would happen in an EMP-event with an atomic bomb: Only 99% chips would be grilled. 1% chips will survive. And that´s the worst-case. THe best-case is even 10% chips survive this (assuming you have preparation to protect certain chips from failing).

[@user-in3br2qs8x]

You would NOT go back to Pre WW1-world in an EMP/Sun´s Solar Sorm-case! You would only travel back in time to 1980/1990s. Where only EARLY computer-chips such as 386/486 or Pentium 1 would exist! Or gameboy-chips. No 64-bit-chips!

[@davegray7551]

I noticed No One is talking about "Radiation".

[@JZsBFF]

What about it?

[@terminalvelocity4858]

I noticed no one cares.

[@davegray7551]

@@JZsBFF The stronger the CME the stronger the electromagnetic radiation from the sun. The stronger the electromagnetic radiation from the sun, the stronger your chance of getting cancer.

[@edwardspencer3906]

Is this WHY my phone is soooo uncooperative at times? Would explain a whole lot....

[@richardwarlord]

A regular reboot works , that’s the main issue with phones , they’re not switched off enough

[@albclean]

The adult pacifier.

[@TheRiverkayaker]

Yes, and remote living with a satellite dish for tv, the tv isn’t working as it should either 🙁

[@MrWiseinheart]

@@albclean nicely said never thought about it that way, 😅.

[@DamnedSilly]

No, that's just crap service. If something like this happened _everyone_ would have trouble at the same time. Whole regions would have to reboot at once. Mayhem! For about ten or fifteen minutes. Let's not go all Y2K here people. Even if every electrical system on Earth was tripped at once, 98% would be back up and running minutes later and most of the remaining 2% are so well shielded you'd need the kind of event that physically melted the hardware to trip the breakers to begin with. Beyond causing a cascade effect where flights got cancelled and people might have to go as long as a few hours without the internet it's really not a big deal. I mean, sure, there's the tiny chance a massive ejection scorched half the planet and cooked the atmosphere away in a flash but that's no fun to talk about since virtually everything on Earth would die in seconds (absolutely everything even remotely like humans) it's not even worth talking about.

[@TheNoobTrooper]

Praise the sun

[@MJIZZEL]

Amen

[@Baldev]

Here here!

[@KoRntech]

The true life bringer

[@TheAlbertaChannel]

Escanor ☀️

[@hupuman5193]

Praise the sun

[@robertfreeman3831]

I expected a more concise attempt at how LIKELY this spot is to have catastrophic effects and how long will it be a threat? Com´on scientists!

[@undertow2142]

You should learn more about solar flares and space weather. Then you wouldn’t have expected such things.

[@MKBAdonai]

This is not a scientist just a word goon practiced at being vehemently non concise with lots of emphatic adjevtives to sound scary and profound

[@orbitaljellyfish808]

I have to agree this was practically celebrating the thing that could wipe out our lifestyles, if not our lives, overnight. Seems like they put more work into flowery language than threat assessment, but, of course they can’t start a panic right? So put us all to sleep with more 11 dollar words than a scrabble tournament. Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do? 😂

Suspicious Observers for that

[@ohasis8331]

Yeah, it's starting to sound like those 'gee whiz' channels that repeat everything after every ad break just so the old folk can make up for lost memory tracking.

[@paulh9329]

not only AR3664, but many of these sunspots have this capability, 3664 is just the one showing its power now, and now we can't watch it, not sure how long it will be out of sight, but not long enough to be out of mind. Carrington is still in the minds of many and that was almost 165 years ago

[@bobcarn]

I had pulled out my telescope last wednesday to check out sunspots and take a few pictures. I was VERY surprised when I saw one that was larger than I had seen before. I found out over the weekend it caused the auroras to be seen very far south, and now I see that it was AR3664. It's surprising to see something I managed to observe and photograph be covered in online videos.

[@georgehernandez9282]

My aftermarket backup camera was having trouble today, and on another vehicle, the navigation was off. Im on los angeles. Reading through the comments has me looking up polar reversal next. Down the rabbit hole.

[@leighsanders8825]

We had the same thing happen today. We're in central TX.

[@scoogyskoogz1869]

Yup our ionosphere is dissipating every day due to the pole shifting we are starting to wobble we are close to a “pole shift” this solar flare wasn’t even that big it’s just the fact our ionosphere is lacking due to the gravitational shift. This solar flare we just had was only rated around 300 the carrington event was in the thousands.

[@donnievance1942]

@@scoogyskoogz1869 Magnetic pole reversal has nothing to do with the axis of earth's rotation or the geophysical poles. I don't believe the level of ignorance out there. The earth will not, and cannot, "flip upside down" or change its rotational vector in any large-scale way. Its magnetic polarity is what flips, not its actual orientation in space. If you don't know the difference between the earth's magnetic poles and its geophysical poles of rotation, you need to go back to grade school.

[@DamnedSilly]

@@scoogyskoogz1869 Check your sources. You've been reading too much doom porn.

[@cafebacon8974]

When all is down does the purge begin? What bout jesus return would emr affect his cloud? And would we then be hell on earth just what peodeo gop wants , blackout means phuck the babies right satantrumpers? No worries here i got a flashlight, third eye , wink wink

[@malcolmliang]

For scale, that spot is bigger than earth.

[@watchdogu.s.a.8973]

Sunspot AR3664 is more than 15 times the width of Earth. It is over 200,000 kilometers across. To say that it is massive would be an immense understatement.

[@GeraldBlack1]

The tin foil hat is great for blocking EMPs while you sleep!

[@catherineroberts6499]

It keeps falling off my head through from tossing around, haha

[@jasonH5997]

U do get that one of these strong enough can take out the internet and power....

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

​@@jasonH5997yes and soon after chaos breaks lose !!

[@sleepydoppy8516]

I kept mine from Y2K. Lol

[@celebratedrazorworks6732]

2 words.. Both xmen.. Magneto & Juggernaut. Both were the OG super tin-hatters!

[@cointenderrarities933]

They can observe it all day long but can do nothing about it when it happens!

[@noraleemyers1341]

Ive been studying this phenomenom since 1989. When I would tell people about what was happening they would laugh at me. NOW "I TOLD YOU SO" 😂

[@Rick43man]

Tell me more… I love to learn

[@jerusalem330]

Something big and bad is coming.

[@Aashka_The_Mystic]

It only took 35 years 😌 lol

[@DisYoCheck]

Suspicious0bservers youtube channel may help you feel heard

[@anthonydavid5121]

Ohhhh please, GMAFB!!!! Pass the tanning butter!!!

[@bilinasmini3480]

Thank you, Sol, for this year's amazing araura in Australia.

[@pammatiti]

Soo, what have you done to better prepare people from these solar storms? So far I have not seen this taking place.

[@TasmanianTigerGrrr]

What can you do really!?!

[@marginbuu212]

Eh, bring it on already. I don't wanna go to work tomorrow.

[@norbertpaulina3090]

Power to the children of the most high.

[@cindyabramowicz4346]

Suspicious Observers is a great channel for ALL things sun related and maybe some you haven't heard about 🤔😮

[@TraumaQueen65]

Thank you, Sol, for the wonderful araura in Australia this year 😎😍

[@brjones27]

Curious if it might be better for power stations to shut things down while (if) it hits. Since we'd lose power anyway. Just try to mitigate some of the damage and get back online quicker.

[@granmabern5283]

Most grids have vastly improved technology now. Not even a glitch last Friday.

[@andrewandres148]

That could very well happen...... But more for using an event as a ruse then for a "CME" prevention move..... Lets see how long this comment stays up.....

[@gsdalpha1358]

Wouldn't help. Plasma from a CME contains powerful magnetic properties. A strong enough CME would fry computer chips, semi-conductors, and electronics even if there was no power running through them.

[@donnievance1942]

@@gsdalpha1358 Shutting down grids and opening discharge channels to ground would spare the transformers that link the system together. Semi-conductor devices could be shielded by Faraday cage protection measures. However, I don't think that the state of world-wide grids is in anything close to a condition of preparation that could actually withstand a Carrington event. That's what was so annoying about this video. It was a bunch of bland assurances that grossly understated the risks and grossly overstated the efficacy of measures that are in place.

[@brjones27]

@@gsdalpha1358 Should be fine in a faraday cage, of sorts. I'd be most worried about our power lines. But, if when it comes in, the lines are completely physically disconnected... maybe that'd help?

[@donaldmcmillan5529]

Is this about to happen or is this the one that gave us this weekends brilliant skies? In other words, is this current data or is it a couple of days late?

[@chriskola3822]

Couple of days late.

[@chuckswanson8496]

It is

[@T.OBrien777]

Happening soon

[@LunaRoseStarLight]

So I guess y'all don't know exactly or can't agree ?

[@donaldmcmillan5529]

Figures, I missed all the fun. This should have been put out a few days ago instead of after the fact.

[@larrypinkard2051]

The infrastructure of the power grid could be protected from this. There is a video I seen where a scientist said the grid could be protected relatively inexpensive and with minimal labor. They built all those bunkers and networks of connected cities with our tax dollars. Yet we the people are not welcome there. So why has the power company neglected this issue of the sun taking out the power grid when it could've been implemented at low cost of finance and labor? If what the scientist said is true, then there is no excuse for the power grid being exposed to danger. They've known for a long time about this risk and they've done nothing for the grid. Stay vigilant and safe out there everyone! Peace

[@sueellerman7984]

Thanks for the video, very informative.

[@AzureIce5]

AR3664 is already turning into the backside. Trying to guess what it will do is silly

[@SherryONeill]

A Side Explosion Is Actually More Dangerous That A Direct Hit The Side Flare As It Turns AWay Connect With Magnetic Lines That Connect With Earth These Lines Turn Back ToWard Earth And Are A HighWay That The Energy Travels On And Hit Earth Keep Watching Wages World yt Talks About This On Some Videos

[@spamsquirrel]

Unless it comes around for another round 😉

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Don't take this video too seriously. Anyone who pronounces NOAA as No AA is ignorant.

[@donaldcarey114]

Or an AI bot.

[@annegaynor9627]

No way!

[@theodoreolson8529]

@@annegaynor9627 No Ah.

[@stringlarson1247]

Or drunk.

[@JonnoPlays]

So we're studying this thing like crazy and know what it's capable of and know it's about to peak in activity... Yet no public warnings... Of any kind... I mean shouldn't we at least put on sunscreen? 🤔

[@LaymanScribe]

Man. All of us are one simple solar belch away from complete destruction. Yeesh. Oh well! Might as well make the best of it. Let's get ready.

[@truthtoad]

It's no longer earth facing so relax!

[@dnaflowz]

Oh really ? It won’t hit us then?

[@coconutcreampie3795]

see you in 14 days 3664

[@wvpatriot1301]

2 weeks or less

[@bigbadcreoledaddy]

What if the sun identifies as a moon? Nobody ever asks Sol for its pronouns. ☀

[@sherrywoods1011]

The sun is artificial since 1956. Its failing China is racing to make one

[@samsara-summermooncomehome5881]

That's it! I'm officially done!

[@phlogistonphlyte]

So, the sun not just mooning, its giving off sun farts. The Greenies will be sooo upset! And Gretha Grumleberg will go absolutely ape-shit. I'll go cook some dead animal for lunch and leave the dead, or soon to be dead, insects to the rest of you! You may wish to keep some anti-insect spray in case the WEF come around.

[@ssokolow]

Conservatives insist it's not what you identify as; It's whether you're capable of engaging in nuclear fusion.

[@muth7813]

🤣

[@galimirnund6543]

I just watched that movie Knowing the other night... lol... scary stuff man!!

[@Olter_]

When yellowstone erupts this will look like a cake walk

[@user-cp7fo7im1s]

Is there not a satellite that watches the other side of the sun that's not facing us? I was curious if these spots like that one ever make it all the way back around ever. I've never seen any images of the other side.

[@LaymanScribe]

Ya some are kinda worried that 64 might come back around in a couple weeks. Very unlikely but hey 🤷‍♂️ it's solar max soon. Anything could happen really.

[@wvpatriot1301]

14 days

[@worthmor5146]

Seeing that we circle the sun you probably have seen the other side.

[@DavidCase-ov5uo]

The sun rotates on its axis every 28 days. 3664 could possibly come back into view in about 16 days time. Remember- the earth moves around the sun at the same time.

[@9unner22]

No satellites are monitoring the farside of the sun.

[@deanagarnes2676]

Is there any chance that the sunspots could be a cause for all the volcanic events?

[@ohasis8331]

How do you relate the two?

[@ceramicemu2063]

There is a strong correlation between solar activity and earthquakes. Google it.

[@DamnedSilly]

Considering there's no correlation between the events, no. An increase in one has no relation to an increase in the other. Solar activity has been increasing on a predicted scale (just as it will fade again) while, despite news coverage, there has been no change in the rate of volcanic activity. It's just more likely they can get pictures.

[@Space30MINUTES]

Wow, the information about sunspot AR3664 is scary!

[@JBean_COCR]

Fiber Optic communications are not impacted by solar flares as this is an electromagnetic effect, and plastic and glass fibers do not conduct electricity nor are they affected by magnetism. They can break down however under gamma radiation depending upon the shielding used for the fibers. However, the equipment that transmits and receives these very fast and high output optical signals (light) can be affected due to noise and surge in the power for these devices.

[@BeSatori]

End either end of those fibers where electrical devices reside.

[@Joaquin_D]

The storm came and went. And we only got the fancy lights.

[@mikeknapp9270]

Too late! And this is nowhere near echoiing the Carrington event. Suspicious Observers was way out in front of this!

[@librasun123]

Well, your welcome to stay tuned to that channel and not dis this one.

@@librasun123NASA, this you?

[@witsend177]

Doomsday preppers will love this.

[@Silverfirefly1]

They are not prepared. It's just more elaborate, self-soothing behavior.

[@roguesgallery4228]

Not at all alarmist, I love your style, especially the imagery, the Earth and the Sun a hair’s breadth away from each other 😂

[@chichama9147]

Would you want a display that large to show the full distance or a image where the distance is correvt but earth and sun smaller than a microbe

[@roguesgallery4228]

@@chichama9147 you mean a true representation of the distances involved, harder to be sensational but yeah.

[@user-gg6qb2bv4l]

Space blanket jammies, ❤

[@stanlee4217]

did i just watch a full blown CARTOON about our "real" solar system?

[@samuelrichardson8564]

Smart answer…

[@DamnedSilly]

No.

[@donnievance1942]

Um, no. Maybe there was a toxic mold on something you ate.

[@joseh3564]

Most of what anyone has "seen" of the universe is a rendering, or "cartoon."

[@clown134]

im curious what can be done at home to protect a computer from this event? would unplugging it be enough? would wrapping the entire computer in aluminium foil help?

[@ginagina5452]

🎶Black hole sun, won't you come. And wash away the rain, black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come. 🎶

[@71717]

Everything's going to be ok guys🥴

[@ohasis8331]

Gee thanks dad.

[@carlmorgan8452]

Obviously not read the warranty ..... Bible

[@user-bp4wt2zq4p]

Amish be like.... yeah, so?

[@ceramicemu2063]

Yeah I’ve long thought that if any culture could survive it would be the Amish (and others who don’t rely on electronic technology).

[@SMunro]

The carrington event was followed one lunar month later by an explosion in a Burmingham munition factory involved in the production of percussion caps in bullets. The prospect that munitions stockpiles could detonate, and some nukes just detonate is high.

[@fedhater1]

I love the smell of fear mongering in the morning...

[@duncanmacleod7287]

Still think going full EV full digital is a smart idea? 🤔

[@muth7813]

😏

[@user-dt3sq7rw3b]

More worried about digital banking and CBDC

[@jamesconley9753]

@@user-dt3sq7rw3b walk and chew gum

[@donnievance1942]

If a Carrington-type event happened, the technological infrastructure that undergirds petro-fuel production and distribution would be just as devastated as the electrical supply. If you think that the petro-fuel industry is independent of the electrical grid, then you know less about reality than the average 6th grader.

[@duncanmacleod7287]

@@donnievance1942 No sh*t! The point is, there's a better chance of me or somebody else going somewhere in an older car with some stored fuel than you on an EV. Also having money in circulation could perhaps extend transactions of goods between people for some time, enough to get some extra supplies.

[@FinianAllen4]

deadly solar storm before carti drops

[@SongMom8]

That giant sunspot is rotating out of view. Any “catastrophic storms” won’t come anywhere near Earth.

[@chrissnyder8108]

Are EMPulses that can damage personal electronics like home computers a possible issue with a solar ejection? I've been worried about whether that might be part of it, so I have started putting my backup drive into a Faraday cage to shield it from EMPs when I am not backing up my data.

[@kdog3908]

Sol angy!

[@HoneyBadger80886]

12000 year cycle. No emotions required.

[@kdog3908]

@@HoneyBadger80886 A sense of humour is a blessing though. 😉

[@buccaneerrex]

Hail to the SUN GOD! He sure is a FUN GOD! RA! RA! RA!

🌞🙌🏽

[@carlmorgan8452]

Fear GOD ----- mocking people.

[@27Zangle]

Fun times are a head of us! Looking forward to the end 🙂

[@terminalvelocity4858]

No, just more videos and BS fear mongering like this being spread around the Internet for the next thing that will be completely blown out of proportion. You will go right along with it too and completely forget about this. 3 year old mentality type stuff going on.

[@chadatchison145]

So what are the plans if we get hit with a major flare, what have we learned that will help in such an event?

[@donnievance1942]

What we have learned is that there is no government on earth that is willing to spend the money to protect us from the catastrophic consequences of a Carrington-like event. What would be required is massive ground discharge channels all over the grid to shed overload and Faraday cage shielding for all critical semi-conductor devices, that is to say critical computing controller functions and communication devices. It would be very expensive, but we're fools for not doing it. A Carrington could destroy the global electrical infrastructure, killing most of us a lot faster than climate change.

[@donnievance1942]

It's not the flare you have to worry about. It's the subsequent coronal mass ejection.

[@dahlia695]

OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!

[@user-et9jd8te6n]

WHEN?

[@tristanbackup2536]

No you won't. Just means you'll be out of power for a bit. 😂 But you'll be ok.

[@carlmorgan8452]

Sun and moon refuse to give their light. Revelation

[@jimmyreid1458]

Seeing this, can there still be any doubt about what drives the climate on earth? Shock of shocks! It ain't CO2.

[@ayron419]

There are so many factors lol what are you saying

[@DamnedSilly]

Considering you can actually draw correlations between measurements for one and the temperature has been rising despite the last four solar cycles actually being _smaller_ than expected your comment makes as much sense as claiming your hair can't be wet because the almanac said it'd be sunny today despite the weather man predicting showers. Let me guess, every time it's a few degrees warmer than expected you wander around all day telling people about how 'global warming' is BS...

[@donnievance1942]

Sorry. Total solar energy received on earth varies only by a couple of percent (max) over any meaningful time scale. If you think you know differently, then go get your Nobel Prize. While the Carrington event and events like the solar activity discussed in this video put out bursts at frequencies and amplitudes that disrupt human electrical infrastructure, their contributory variance to the earth's thermal budget is a blip on the screen. You saw a video you didn't understand and plugged it into your confirmation bias structure to reinforce your ideas that climate science has everything wrong. Well, bud, you better write an analytic contributory paper to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, because they've been tracking solar irradiance since before you were probably born. Or else have yourself another chaw of terbaccy and relax your struggling brain. Not every vague impression you entertain corresponds to some fact.

[@jimmyreid1458]

Well, Donnie, you're certainly welcome to your CO2 delusional hoax. That being CO2 is the temperature knob of earth.

[@jimmyreid1458]

And CO2 isn't one of them.

[@FloozieOne]

Of course all these results will only happen if the flare is pointed at Earth when it detaches. Not to day it won't be, its a crap shoot, but the odds are it will blast off into another part of space. It could be fascinating to see what happens if it points at Jupiter or another planet maybe Saturn. As gas giants these would be massive reactions which could tell us immense information about their atmospheres and properties.

[@donnievance1942]

Flares don't "detach" from the Sun. They are radiant point-source electromagnetic emissions that cover a wide angle. Coronal mass ejections detach from the sun. And their angular spread of distribution when they do so is often 120 degrees or even greater. Basically, anything that blows off on the earth-oriented side of the sun is going to hit us. Mass ejections are not "pointed" to any significant extent. They are massively broad waves.

[@TasmanianTigerGrrr]

Are you saying that Reddit might be knocked out by a CME? excellent excellent!!

[@harliethomas1378]

We are in a position to handle the Carrington event? Get real!

[@DamnedSilly]

Unplug it, plug it back in again. Yes, that's the level of danger we're facing here. You've been watching too much disaster porn.

[@BeSatori]

@@DamnedSilly No, if (when) we get hit by another Carrington the world population will not recover for centuries. That's not disaster porn its honest science. And US govt. risk assessment conclusions.

[@harliethomas1378]

@@DamnedSilly I don't know what happened to my last comment and reply but I've worked in electronics repair for over 40 years and Carrington style event would absolutely fry everything including your car. But I don't think this is going to be like that even though they occur every 160 years or so which is scary but I hope it won't happen. Kind of like atomic weapons it could wipe out all humanity but I'm hoping not and don't expect it. And this event seems to be over the sunspot is turning away from Earth and there's only one CME left to hit at the moment which shouldn't be of concern. NOAA's did upgrade the geomagnetic storm and even stated that long pipelines etc could be a problem with the amount of current that they would receive.

[@Nightscape_]

I'm happy we are actually ready for the upcoming solar storms and don't have to worry.

[@muth7813]

😅

[@DamnedSilly]

If by 'ready' you mean 'there isn't really anything we can do and as luck would have it we live on the one planet likely to protect us' then, yeah, we're ready. Look, it's exciting for astronomers but those people don't get a lot of day-to-day thrills.

[@causewaykayak]

​@@DamnedSilly😂😂

[@MeiziSant]

explains the hot flashes during the metapause, lol.

[@causewaykayak]

😂

[@foramagasobeselettucepurpl6911]

Here in southern Ontario Canada, I actually saw something falling through the sky (like a 'shooting star') during the auroras on May 11th and I thought it might be a fallen satellite...

[@praveencmhydro5826]

Don't think in mind this time! Sun is in practical stages of reset is going to killed by self to end the existing karmic power era to begin new karmic era for God Lucky's whose still alive (2024-2029 existing karmic power era death time)

[@donnievance1942]

Righto. Call your doctor.

[@universeusa]

Sunspots, also known as solar spots, are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as darker areas compared to surrounding regions. They are caused by magnetic activity, particularly the interaction of magnetic fields and plasma on the Sun's surface. While humans cannot directly control sunspots, scientists study them closely to understand solar activity and its potential impacts on Earth. Solar activity, including sunspots, can influence space weather, affecting phenomena such as geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which can impact satellite communications, power grids, and other technological systems on Earth. Although we cannot control sunspots, we can monitor solar activity using observatories and satellites and develop strategies to mitigate potential impacts on Earth. This includes improving space weather forecasting, developing robust infrastructure to withstand solar storms, and implementing measures to protect critical systems from space weather-related disruptions.

[@georgewaters6424]

moron pontificates about that of which he knows next nothing. lol "solar spots" said no one reputable ever, not taught in any book or college. You must be MAGA

[@gsdalpha1358]

Robust infrastructure would take years and billions of dollars. We're too busy spending money on other countries.

[@donnievance1942]

Unfortunately, no government on earth has displayed the remotest interest in spending the money that would be required to adequately protect us from a Carrington-like event.

[@wvpatriot1301]

Moderate activity on the sun. Extreme solar storm. SHIELDS ARE DOWN

[@johnny71c]

Wow a carrington event now that will create some awesome aurora

[@rxibot]

The sun needs a hug 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@Haywire-Alguire]

You first ! 😆🤣

[@theunvaccinator]

civil unrest & carnage loss of law n order

[@IAmWBeard]

I didn’t know you could see big sun spots with eclipse glasses! How cool!!!

[@MrAuswest]

Get 2 sheets of cardboard punch a philips screwdriver through the centre of one then hold the holey one above the plain one and let sunlight shine through the hole onto the bottom one - you can see large sunspots if they are there. Do it for a couple of days at the same time of day and you can see them move across the surface as the Sun rotates. Moving the boards apart focuses the image.

[@MrOgrrre]

Just out of curiosity, what would the effect of another Carrington Event have on implanted pacemakers or defibrilaters?

[@sharetherisk7647]

You and a number of your colleagues near to stop calling AR3664 a "sunspot" - it is not. What it is, is defined by the initials AR which stands for Active Region. This region consists of approximately 60 sun spots. Worse, your "Breaking" and "Catastrophic" clickbait title is all wrong since AR3664 is exiting stage right and no longer spewing earth directed solar sludge. All solar indices have relaxed especially the Kp index which is why NOAA is only forecasting G3 level geomagnetic intensity tomorrow, down to G1 the following day and on Day 3, all the way down to G0. You are about 3 days late with your video with your fear mongering that does not in way reflects absent damage reports. Other than unremarkable impacts on HF radio propagation (primarily affecting Amateur Radio hobbyists) all the fear mongering is exactly that and unappreciated within the real solar weather community. Be better.

[@TheThetruthmaster1]

Just shut down the power grid before the flair hits. It's not rocket science

[@samsara-summermooncomehome5881]

Don't be silly.

[@anthonybrett]

In most instances that wont help. The problem is the length of cable runs. Essentially, a solar storm turns the Earth into the core of a giant transformer. With thousands of miles of cable running across the surface of the planet acting as the windings. These cables transport AC voltage. CME's inject a DC voltage onto the power lines which has the potential to destroy all the small transformers at the end of the cable runs. If you take enough of the small transformers, we are screwed because we don't enough spares to replace them all. And if we have no power we cant make them. Power companies have never disconnected the grid because of the potential of a flare, because when you shut down power supplies you obviously turn off all the power. Customers don't like that. For example the, CME that hit us on May 10-13th, technically should have warranted a disconnect, just in case. But we never did it...

[@leopardwoman38]

Anything with a wire or is made of conductive material would conduct the sun’s electromagnetic energy whether connected to the grid or not.

[@jshellenberger7876]

Thank you, professors Huffman, Hoffman, and Dr. Peter Pry. #KING JOHN CONSULTED

[@ky1ebetts]

Sunspot is my favorite X-Men. What a tank!