Could A Solar Superflare Destroy The World? | Answers With Joe

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The sun is a solar flare machine, constantly spitting out waves of charged particles in all directions. Sometimes these hit Earth. Luckily we're protected by a strong magnetic field that directs the particles to the poles, which we experience as the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis.
But from time to time, the sun erupts in a massive superflare, also known as a CME or Coronal Mass Ejection. These can push our magnetic shield to its limits and actually cause electrical problems on the ground.
One of the worst instances of a CME striking the Earth occurred in 1859. It disrupted the telegraph system and sent sparks flying out of switchboards. It became known as the Carrington Event and begs the question - what if it happened today?
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[@priapocalypse]

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[@joescott]

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[@gixermouse]

@@joescott I would defend you here but I'm not a inmorteveritas subscriber so it would be a laughable cyberfight. Also inmorteveritas, lower case 'i' in your name suggests uneducated problem child. Joe, I love you matey. Need an Englishman to back you up? Gimme a shout :)

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@@gixermouse What's your problem?

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@@gixermouse well it appears that it’s an uppercase

[@evelynproud8792]

Joe Scott is the cutest smartest best friend we never had!

[@celinehatting3080]

My entire week is made better by Joe because I dread going back to work on a Monday but the Monday upload is always perfectly timed to show up at the end of my shower. And, on Thursday, the upload gives me that final boost to make it to the end of Friday. Many thanks Joe! ^^

[@Sadowsky46]

Celine Hatting yes, and with such a gloomy topic you enjoy work much more - as long as it still is 😉

[@joescott]

You got it!

[@therocinante3443]

Contemplating the destruction of the Earth.. Yup, definitely Monday morning!

[@charlesbrightman4237]

(Copy and pastes from my files): (And I haven't even had my first cup of coffee or breakfast yet): Consider the following: * There are 3 basic options for life itself, which reduce down to 2, which reduce down to only 1: a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. b. We die trying to truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. c. We die not trying to truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. * 3 reduced down to 2: a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. b. We don't. And note, two out of the three options above, we die. * 2 reduced down to 1: a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. b. We truly don't have any conscious existence throughout all of future eternity. (And note, these two appear to be mutually exclusive. Only one way would be really true.) And then ask yourself the following questions: 1. Ask yourself: How exactly do galaxies form? The current narrative is that matter, via gravity, attracts other matter. 2. Ask yourself: How exactly do galaxies become spiral shaped in a cause and effect state of existence? At least one way would be orbital velocity of matter with at least gravity acting upon that matter, would cause a spiral shaped effect. 3. Ask yourself: What does that mean for a solar system that exists in a spiral shaped galaxy? Most probably that solar system would be getting pulled toward the galactic gravitational center. 4. Ask yourself: What does that mean for species that exist on a planet, that exists in a solar system, that exists in a spiral shaped galaxy, in an apparent cause and effect state of existence? Most probably that if those species don't get off of that planet, and out of that solar system, and probably out of that galaxy too, (if it's even actually possible to do for various reasons), then they are all going to die one day from something and go extinct with probably no conscious entities left from that planet to care that they even ever existed at all in the first place, much less whatever they did and or didn't do with their time of existence. 5. Ask yourself: For those who might make it out of this galaxy, (here again, assuming it could actually be done for various reasons), where to go to next, how long to get there, how to safely land, and then, what's next? Hopefully they didn't land in another spiral shaped galaxy or a galaxy that would become spiral shaped one day, otherwise, they would have to galaxy hop through the universe to stay alive, otherwise, they still die one day from something with no conscious entities being left from the original planet to care they even ever existed at all in the first place, much less that they made it out of their own galaxy. They failed to consciously survive throughout all of future eternity. 6. Ask yourself: What exactly matters throughout all of future eternity and to whom does it exactly and eternally matter to? Either at least one species truly consciously survives throughout all of future eternity somehow, someway, somewhere, in some state of existence, even if only by a continuous succession of ever evolving species, for life itself to have continued meaning and purpose to, OR none do and life itself is all ultimately meaningless in the grandest scheme of things. Our true destiny currently appears to be: 1. We are ALL going to die one day from something. 2. We are ALL going to forget everything we ever knew and experienced. 3. We are ALL going to be forgotten one day in future eternity as if we never ever existed at all in the first place. Currently: Nature is our greatest ally in so far as Nature gives us life and a place to live it, AND Nature is also our greatest enemy that is going to take it all away. (OSICA) * Have a very nice day even though it appears it doesn't even matter that we even exist much less how we exist.

[@timetogetrealreborn7681]

The best Monday morning is the morning when you think how and when the earth will be destroyed. :D

[@charlesbrightman4237]

@@timetogetrealreborn7681 Consider the following as well: Assuming modern science to be correct concerning the singular 'big bang' and how our current forces of nature came into existence, (the expansion of the singularity causing our current forces of nature to come into existence), and that modern science claims that energy cannot be created nor destroyed and hence energy in the universe would most probably getting less and less dense, most probably on the way to a universal 'big freeze', will the forces of nature ever 'evolve'? Since it was expansion of the singularity that supposedly brought them into existence and basically the singularity is still expanding. Will the entire universe and all in it including us and our consciousness' all disappear in the blink of an eye, possibly even in the very next moment of expansion of this universe? Why wouldn't it and why hasn't it? Now personally, I believe modern science to be wrong about how the forces of nature came into existence. They didn't. They are inherent in the 'gem' photon which is the energy unit of this universe that makes up everything in existence in this universe, including space time itself and even how numbers themselves actually exist for math to do what math does. But, either modern science is correct or they are wrong or I am correct or I am wrong. But, if modern science is correct, then the entire universe could all disappear in the blink of an eye in the very next moment of universal existence itself. So, when you say thinking about how and when the Earth will be destroyed, how about the entire universe itself being destroyed in the very next moment of our existence? (A possible how and when if modern science is correct). Talk about living on the edge of existence, how thrilling. Have a very nice Monday morning. Time for that first cup of coffee and breakfast before I die one day, forget it all and will be forgotten. (Or so the current analysis would seem to indicate).

[@StoneCoolds]

Sean Bailin welcome to the 21st century lol

[@joescott]

Who doesn't feel like destroying the world on a Monday?

[@timetogetrealreborn7681]

Me: Wakes up happy Joe: Could A Solar Superflare Destroy The World? Me: Hello darkness my old friend

[@joescott]

The Sound of Superflares.

[@JerseyLynne]

There is a very interesting theory about our sun going into "micronova" regularly. Suspicious Observers channel, "Earth Catastrophe Series" breaks it into 20 short episode so you can watch whatever you are interested in. Or the Diehold Foundation channel goes into detail and presents evidence. It is based on a banned 1950's book called the Adam and Eve story.

[@jefdamen2977]

Lighten up, we will. Yoda

[@charleshubbard9773]

That solar flare lit up again....

[@timetogetrealreborn7681]

@@joescott So calming

[@leftauparxoun]

As a Greek, I never thought I would ever dare to travel that north to see the northern lights. Life eventually brought me to the polar zone of Scandinavia and on my last night there, I saw them. I am glad I brought my tripod and my SLR and captured some amazing pictures. Hope you can see them one Joe.

[@mikaelpshemish9775]

ah, yes. existential dread on a monday. thank you mister science man.

[@jofriko5416]

But it’s a summer Monday 😁

[@joescott]

It's the best day for dread.

[@mikaelpshemish9775]

Joe Scott I sense far too much glee for this in your tone 👀

[@florencekwok1825]

Joe - I recently came across your channel, and I've been binging your videos non-stop for a week. I play it when I eat, I fall asleep to your videos or I play it in the background while at work. I've learned so much this past week! I appreciate you, your sense of humor, what you stand for and your hard work with these videos and your business, Cankerboy. Just wanted to say THANK YOU and keep up the good work!!! We need more people like you in the world

[@thumbs4fingers]

Quebec 1989, I remember that power outage. We had a Huge snow storm the same time, no power for a week. We all thought it was the storm until 2 weeks later

[@ryantwombly720]

Le Canadien Thanks for that insight. I was curious and Weather Underground had no info.

[@PaulaJBean]

Had this happened in New York or D.C., all mayhem would have broken loose, with millions of casualties.

[@joescott]

Oh wow, that's crazy.

[@thumbs4fingers]

Joe Scott I was 10 years old at a parents friends place when the power went out. Transformers blew throughout the night but we all, and I mean most of Montreal thought the power outage was weather related until we finally got the news. Some STILL refuse to believe it was the sun because of the blizzard that hit basically at the same time. ....love your channel :)

[@rogerjrusa]

Paula J. Bean I would’ve been in a cave, painting images of bison and mountain lions.

[@robinboyle5786]

Solar flares, errant astroids, nuclear war... I'm going back to bed.

[@joescott]

Bedbugs, rusted springs, people getting strangled in their sheets...

[@christinearmington]

Peter A. Yes! Both can be a pain in the butt.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

It's all fake to keep us in fear. The recipe is clear, but that too was hidden.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

Peter A. I mean by now even with the bear minimal awareness things should be quite clear.” To most of us. Just by reading Orwell and making a rough comparison anyone can tell we are getting there. Even without direct evidence the statical power of the patterns we witness cannot be overlooked.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

also death and taxes...

[@JoelReid]

Transformers blown from New York to Washington? That would be a strong wind to blow them that far. :P

[@bodombeastmode]

Hah!

[@talltroll7092]

[@PoochieCollins]

Get out.

[@grokeffer6226]

My bucket list would include, someday, having a really, really, nice bucket. One of those really fancy ones. One can only dream.

[@FreeStuffPlease]

If i had a bucket list, one of my includes would be learn how to write a list.

[@anewspinonthings]

Yes a fancy bucket!! How fantastic!!! Finally I’ll have something to put my lists in

[@jacobblackshaw3060]

Keep making videos like this! Love everything you do!

[@joescott]

Thanks!

[@shookings]

End Times With Joe is one of my favorite channels on KZbin!

[@joescott]

I'd talk about happier things but nobody would watch it.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

@@joescott I would....... Or would I? 😐

[@TheParasiteDk]

Another interesting and illuminating video. Thank you, Joe. Also, please make a playlist called "Existential Dread" :)

[@joescott]

Totally should.

[@wwxd85]

That's probably putting a hat on a hat.

[@ryanstanicic6635]

“Space wants to kill you” - Joe Scott, 2019

[@talltroll7092]

“Space wants to kill you” - Joe Scott, 2XXX* FTFY

[@296jacqi]

Made me burst out laughing.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

It amazes me beyond.. every single person I tell about this event for the past 20 years has never heard of it.. yet our world more or less depends on this regular yet random occurance. Joe rocks!

[@Dan_Roland]

Another less well known fact about Earth and its relationship with space is the fact that it's magnetic field is very near to flipping; an event that will last a few thousand years and make us much more vulnerable to CMEs and flares...

[@Elerius]

Joe, I've been very interested in the shielding aspect of this. I've thought of building a mobile house and wrapping it with mesh to create a Faraday cage and protect electronic systems inside. I don't know if that will actually work. so a video about shielding technology maybe combined with artificial magnetic fields topic would be awesome. Magnetic fields for spaceships to block radiation has always seemed like the direction to go to me.

[@DJovyland]

When Joe and Cold Fusion release a video at the same time, you know it's time for a coffee break.

[@thulyblu5486]

I don't know the channel Cold Fusion, but naming themselves after a physically impossible scam concept doesn't inspire confidence.

[@joescott]

Naw, it's a great channel. It actually used to be called Coldfustion for some reason and he eventually just changed it to Cold Fusion because people were confused. (or should I say "Cold Fused"? I'll see myself out.

[@FreeStuffPlease]

Ight ima head out*

[@Gengh13]

To be honest Joe, I've seen the "southern lights" if they are called like that when I worked in Antarctica and the camera captures them better, it's still cool to see them, but with a camera with sufficient exposure time you get better details, they are not as faint.

[@xBaRLoGx]

Amazing video as usual

[@andrewradford3953]

432 is my house number but otherwise nothing special. 137.5 is the most efficient angle to pack opposing spirals of objects.

[@Phoenixash-delfuego]

@@andrewradford3953 if I could bring Al pacino round to your house at 1:37 for some pie and tea then 432, 137 and pie would be important for real Al and tea. I was going to send that suggestion to Unreal Realist but I thought it would be rude to make arrangements without asking you first.

[@Sadowsky46]

You mean NUMBERS like in Kabbalah? 🤫

[@totalermist]

@@andrewradford3953 >432 is my house number but otherwise nothing special. Slow down there, buddy! *Every* number is special. The proof is elementary: 1) Suppose there's a single number that's not special. 2) since it's only a single number, it must be special because it's the only of its kind => there cannot be a single non-special number 3) Suppose there's many numbers that aren't special. 4) These numbers can be put into the set of "non-special numbers" "S" 5) Since we can order the numbers S, there is always a smallest "non-special" number "n" next to a "special" number "s" 6) The property of being the smallest non-special number that is not "s" is in and of itself special since it provided "n" with a unique property (there can only be one number with this property) => "n" is cannot be part of S => recursively replacing S with S\{n} (i.e. S without "n") yields S = Ø (i.e. the empty set) => non-special numbers don't exist

[@talltroll7092]

@@totalermist That only works for a given value of "special"

[@rossh2386]

The northern lights were one of the most incredible things I've ever seen make a trip up north

[@elspiloto1706]

Couldn't agree more. Saw it as I flew north from LA to Dubai. Thought I was looking at an oddly twisting contrail to the north, but as the aircraft got closer light show suddenly kicked off and THAT WAS AWESOME. Only a G2 storm!

[@DamnedSilly]

Photos and video just can't do it justice. The scale must be appreciated.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

I have never seen magnetism light up rare gasses like that but plasma does, I have never seen them in real life, does it happen every night or only when them moon is gone?

[@elspiloto1706]

Sadly the big Northern Lights show is not particularly frequent. As Joe says we need to be hit by a CME, which happens probably around 10 times a year and the time it lasts varies. Frequently I’ll fly over the North Pole and look at a very very faint “cloud”, with cockpit lights low as possible, and that is in fact the lights. The full blown experience happens 3 - 4 times a year. I’ve caught it once in 6 years flying over the North Pole.

[@rossh2386]

@@bengrizzlyadams6187 yes what els piloto said they happen infrequently for the most part unless theres particularly strong solar winds bringing charged particles into the upper atmosphere then it could be multiple nights long depending on how north you are

[@ashleyalston4433]

“How you do that yo?” I fell off from your videos and don’t understand why or how.. the info plus your humor, love it!

[@R_C420]

Everyone knows that clasping your fingers together backwards is the universal gesture for magnetic flux.

[@strange6973]

Yes! One of our lecturer's went on about this sort of thing. Mentioned that we should be putting more work into making our grids more robust against these sorts of things. Glad you covered it!

[@theWanderer521]

try Tasmania for the Southern Lights :)

[@luizucchetto2528]

As always you combine great info, story telling, and humour into a great video. That is why I keep viewing all of your videos! By the way seeing the Northern lights is on my bucket list as well.

[@jamesfarrell8339]

Good morning Joe Have a wonderful day today 😊

[@joescott]

You too!

[@MyCatFooed]

Joe, my man, *please* do so many more topics regarding our star & electromagnetic dynamics!!

[@shanewilliams5771]

This is my all time fear! Glad you made a video about this.

[@laurajarvis3156]

This,nuclear war, overpopulation, climate change.....reasons I don't sleep 😂

[@shanewilliams5771]

@@laurajarvis3156 you forgot AI 😂

[@autohmae]

@@shanewilliams5771 But AI is just here to help, just like clippy. ;-)

[@peterblood50]

Yup, this and the failure of Earths gravitational field. 😬

[@shanewilliams5771]

@@autohmae and HAL9000

[@Chazza_1201]

“No photo, (He was shy)” made me chuckle . I like your thought process in your content

[@HR-yd5ib]

You lost me at 9:00 -- earlier you said a Carrington style event would cause outages of up to two years in some areas and cost between 600 Million and 2 TRILLION (indeed a pretty wide range). Now you say it would cause wifi to not work for a few hours. So which one is it?! Also, a) how do they know that such an event occurs only every 500 years? Who was there in around 1359 to record it or does it cause some sort of pattern in ore containing rocks? b) The sun is some 5 billion years old. I doubt that the additional 160 years since 1859 make a big difference in the maturity of the star.

[@Oblivionator100]

You have to remember though, the Aurora isn't actually as vibrant or as bright in person. The photos and videos that you see of them are taken at a very slow exposure setting over a long period of time, this lets you get way more color and light out of them. Like, you can definitely see them with the naked eye, but the camera exposure time and color correction software is always used to enhance them.

[@JoshuaTootell]

This is the first I have heard this. I spent about 2 years in Alaska and only saw the Aurora once. I was awed, but it was so dim that I thought I was missing out on something far better. Maybe it was dimmer than it could have been, but maybe I didn't miss out either.

[@VAXHeadroom]

Biggest concern is: If the event is strong enough to short out power transformers, there's no back-stock to replace them. Depending on how many got damaged - and it could be A LOT - replacing them could take years because we'd have to build the transformers first...

[@bodombeastmode]

....with no electricity to build them other than generators. Which run off of fuel pumped by motors which run off electricity..

[@ooooneeee]

I'm pretty sure we'd speed up the building process in that kind of emergency.

[@VAXHeadroom]

@@ooooneeee Absolutely. And the info I've seen it mostly related to the pole mounted transformers that power people's homes. Industrial systems would likely survive, mostly because they could be taken off line which would prevent them from arcing and being destroyed. So the the industrial infrastructure would be fine, but the capacity to replace 100's of thousands of pole-mounted transformers would take potentially several years (2-3) to get the replacement completed.

[@Dragrath1]

@@patrickmalone1373 generally they do keep a back up supply its just not enough to replace ALL the transformers at once.

[@boggless2771]

I imagine the transformer industry is kind of hoping for this. $$$! Also you should be ok with a solar panel at hone for daily usage.

[@dylanhalifaux]

Thanks Joe

[@almightysosa3007]

Just another Existential crisis to keep me awake at night, thanks Joe

[@joescott]

Glad to help. Sleep sucks.

[@chipworrell6025]

Whew... You have so eased my Carrington event terror. Good vid.

[@lunacouer]

Haven't even watched the video, getting ready for an existential crisis. Yup, Answers With Joe video. :D

[@joescott]

My reputation precedes me.

[@carpemkarzi]

I hope you get to see the northern lights someday. They are stunnning, humbling and amazing. In my youth (I’m old) at a driven inn theatre in the middle of the second feature the aurora marched on down and everyone one got out of their cars and we all watched the better show..they actually stopped the film so we could see better.

[@richardwarsin5174]

I remember back in 1974 I saw the aurora in Southern NY and it was incredible. They looked like giant green curtains rippling across the sky. I will never forget it Love your channel, good to see intelligent and informative content on yt

[@alisoncleeton877]

Yours is one of the most entertaining Infomedy channels out there. Big thanks xxxxx

[@tomryner5830]

As a Swede I can say the northern lights are Scary but Beautiful and awesome!!! Best ever... 1990 during my military service in the Swedish north.

[@gavinvarian9470]

Option 3 to see the Northern Lights is Borealis by Dan Archer which I'll be watching in Perth this week

[@cakea5461]

"Damn, sun"! Omg, , seriously, too funny, love u/ur channel! Thank you for being u Joe Scott, really. 👍

[@stevepirie8130]

Always wanted to see Southern Lights, grew up seeing Northern Lights regularly. Few times the entire sky was covered in light which changed colours.

[@bodombeastmode]

I have a deep interest in existential risk and a coronal mass ejection is probably the one that scares me the most. Though it certainly wouldn't end our species, having nearly no electricity for several months or years worldwide would be catastrophic. This is going to happen. There is an eleven percent chance every decade supposedly. I'm actually surprised Joe somewhat undersold the seriousness of the risk. There was a governmental panel that came to the conclusion that if the CME in 2012 would have hit us, we would still be recovering right now and tens of millions of people would have died.

[@kentaylor4826]

I think that mankind is vastly underestimating the effects of a CME. Instead of hardening the power grids and having standby equipment ready (transformers etc) we spend trillions of dollars worldwide every year on weapons. Silly human race.

[@mikeyoung9810]

i was stationed in Ne Montana back in the '70's so I got a chance to see the northern lights a few times (kansas boy here) but they never looked like the pictures I always see. Theyy were very dim and were mostly only visible if you looked away from them otherwise they would vanish. They did seem to move a bit though. As a weather observer in the AF I always had to let my eyes adapt to the dark (and there weren''t many lights on the base at night) so I got a pretty good look. I don't know how much brighter they can get and I was only there 18 months.

[@AdamMansbridge]

Camera get to spend some time collecting light. We don't have that luxury You need a electricity network breaking CME to make an aurora that looks as good to your eyes as the common ones do to cameras

[@seb_gibbs]

We have seen solar flares that would 'really mess things up', but luckily wasn't directed towards Earth

[@bernieflanders8822]

I've become a huge huge fan of this channel. Awesome and no silly fairy tales or predictions of nonsense. Breath of fresh air to say the least

[@AmateurishAstronaut]

Actually there's a new theory put across by particle physicist Prof. Urving Manson at St Andrew-Pierce University (APU) in Austria that's really gaining traction in central Europe. He theorizes that solar flares aren't in fact coronal ejections of high energy hydrogen particles, but instead are protons interacting with *multiple* hydrogen isotopes within the center of the sun itself. This is huge because it means that solar flares could actually be deflected by high energy proton beams so that they don't hit us, and they can even be predicted and harnessed for energy! It could literally be humanities first step into a type 1 civilization fully utilizing the sun's energy to power the Earth eternally with *ZERO* harmful byproducts. The best part about this is his findings literally passed international peer review 2 months ago! Also I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about and I made all of this up because I was bored as fuck lol bye.

[@FriedrichHerschel]

Austria is the country without kangoroos.

[@nanmagrath5564]

Hi Joe - I expected existential dread, and this was pretty upbeat. For the aurora, come to Fairbanks Alaska, a funky college town in interior Alaska. We have lots of interesting things to do winter and summer. The aurora needs to be winter, and yes, it is cold but there are local hot springs. Today is not cold (in the 70s) but no aurora as we will not have any night sky per se till late August. When it is below -40, the university kids put on swimsuits and snow boots and take their picture at the university entrance where there is a temperature sign as well. This would not be expected of you. Thanks for this video!

[@dylanosmond3340]

The human race is sooo amazingly unprepared. We would be wipped out and forgot about. Still thinking the world is flat ??... come on!

[@havetacitblue]

Thanks for the info on Stereo A - I hadn’t gotten around to looking up why it is down. Kinda late to the show on that one.

[@creyes4182]

Hugging a sloth is in my bucket list

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Be careful. I hear those things can tear you open with their claws in a heartbeat. Oh wait, I may have those confused with grizzly bears high on meth.

[@creyes4182]

Lenard Segnitz understandable sloths in general look like they are high on something😂

[@Phoenixash-delfuego]

@@CarFreeSegnitz I've never seen a grizzly bear high on meth but I've seen a high grizzly bare meth head.

[@RogueRipple]

The northern lights are worth the trip! I used to live in the upper peninsula of Michigan and used to see them all the time! My ex and I would pull over on the side of the road, sit on the hood of my truck, and watch an incredible light show dance around the sky!

[@brainord]

Joe it's too early to be existential

[@ryantwombly720]

RasinBrandon He was restrained today. So many other channels talk about a Carrington-level event as world ending.

[@aaron4932]

A similar idea you could use for a video would be to discuss the different energy level of particles and their effects on satellites. For instance cosmic rays of heavy atoms ejected from things like collisions of neutron stars would have the potential to penetrate over 100 meters of solid lead meaning that no satellite in orbit is truly protected, and worst case at any time we could have Kepler syndrome set off with nothing to prevent it.

[@paris466]

You don't want your picture taken, you don't get shit named after you. It's really that simple

[@TK199999]

Another thing to remember, that even in a Carrington or Carrington plus event it is believed that just turning off satellite, electrical and power generating equipment could prevent a great deal of damage. Its why we have satellites that orbit the sun, since it would let us see such an event as it happens. With even just a few minutes warning most of our technology can be turned off or placed into a safe mode. Though there is work to harden our satellites and infrastructure, while also making them smart. In that they can detect a possible damaging event and turn themselves off or go into protected safe mode, then reactive once the danger has passed.

[@pteronoid]

is this a re-upload? I kinda remember Joe talking about this before, I have a deja-vu even with his jokes, can anyone confirm or maybe I am wrong.

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

Nah, youre just glitching in the matrix

[@Sadowsky46]

Alex Grey He covered it before but I think it’s a new video

[@wwxd85]

I totally remember him doing it too. It's either because of the Mandella effect or because every other science communicator has already covered this event at length. Makes you wonder the point of this one. Maybe Joe should do an episode on redundancy.

[@chadwaller6072]

Let’s see. Monday Coffee. Work is slow. Time to watch a Joe vid. Good start to the week. Thx Joe

[@groundsgrounds3002]

Put an artificial magnetic field at the L1 legrange point. that would deflect enough away.

[@willyouwright]

Move the moon to the lagrange point lol

[@MiniLuv-1984]

How much energy would it require to keep deflecting sufficient solar storm energy to protect us? Must be GWHrs.

[@willyouwright]

@@MiniLuv-1984 you could do it with an emp maybe..?? Just enough to minimise. . No need to totally deflect..

[@groundsgrounds3002]

@@MiniLuv-1984 I'm guessing not as much as you'd think. since its so far a way we'd only have to deflect it by a little to completely miss earth. i did see a documentary on this once but cant remember any figures i'm afraid. This idea has been proposed to act as a way to protect Mars from solar radiation but not just from flares.

[@shaynebergwever6268]

Why does, Answers With Joe, always wind up with more questions?. Always great stuff!

[@maskichef]

They decided not to bomb the sun and let it off with a warming 😁

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Like a flea kicking an elephant for all its worth.

[@Sadowsky46]

Lenard Segnitz nooo, potus has biggest bombs of em all

[@Bland-79]

I'd like his videos better if he'd stop interjecting low ball jabs at a certain political figure. I'm not here to have one sided political jokes shoved down my throat.

[@richysradioroom]

good stuff again Joe....Luv it. Falcon heavy going up tonight at 22:30 CDT tonight....watch it live online.

[@Casra76]

Joe, I was stationed in Maine whilst in the Navy, I'm like you a Texan... and every time there was a GOOD Aurora? It was overcast. It to is on my bucket list.

[@robocook01]

The first time I saw the northern lights I was at a party while working in the Arctic(1991-92). I stepped outside( it was -60 at the time) in my socks and t-shirt in complete awe!! The colors and swirling patterns right across the sky. I thought someone had dropped acid in my drink. You gotta see them Joe, you'll trio balls, guaranteed!! Keep up the good work!!

[@SweetSerenity79]

Hey Joe what else do you know?! I just came across your channel and I must admit I have become quite smitten. I am now a super-sub of yours so thanks for the most interesting content. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks a whole bunch.

[@SpinRider2]

I saw the 1989 solar electrical storm that wiped out power in Quebec, and it was spectacular. I live in Northern New England and I've seen a few Northern Lights, but this event was of a completely different nature. The light was in numerous concentric rings, covering almost the entire sky, it was purple, red, green, orange, and pulsed as is seemed to rotate. By far the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and I've never encountered anyone else who saw this.

[@allyabernathy4098]

one question that wasn’t answered in this video: would we have any warning of these flares before they hit us? like would we be able to see the increase in light from the flare prior to the event occurring? great video!

[@brendabailey4319]

You are so funny and informative at the same time I love it ! ❤

[@macfilms9904]

This is the area of physics my physicist father has studied his entire career. He was part of a panel the Pentagon held on disaster readiness, specifically on CRMs - the biggest issue that you didn't mention is that extremely large transformers would blow as energy moved through powerlines (as it did with telegraph lines in the Carrington) - these transformers are enormous, very expensive, and are made by exactly one company in Japan - and take up to 2 years to complete. At the time of the conference, the US had exactly zero spares, we now have two - so if many were blown, the power would go down for conceivably, quite some time. No electricity means no cold food storage, no AC in summer, no internet (with all the business done there) - it's literally lights out for a long time.

[@transportevolved]

If it makes you feel better Joe, I've been in the Arctic a couple of times during winter and NOT seen the Northern Lights :(

[@PandorasCrate0]

I've been binge watching your videos all week. Thank you for being awesome! Also, I think we have the same typewriter, 1941 Royal Quiet Deluxe?

[@cyrilio]

Almost at half a million subs Joe. Well done

[@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189]

9:50 "Space wants to kill you", kinda reminds me of Gary in Final Space just floating in space and about to die.

[@lydiafaye494]

Fun fact: you can also see the Aurora lights down under in Australia and New Zealand and be waaaay less cold than up north! Have a look at 'Southern Lights' or 'Aurora Australis'

[@mellaniemellbourne7050]

Hey Joe, if you wanna see the Northern Lights, come to Alaska! But yknow...come in the winter. We get lots of tourists that come up in June asking where to see them, and we have to tell them "It never gets dark enough"

[@jcdoors1978]

Recently found this channel, gotta tell ya, loved it since then

[@infernalchaos1066]

Greetings from Fairbanks, Joe! I recommend seeing the Northern Lights at least once. September thru February is best.

[@vladket1641]

Good idea to sell merch - DVD recordings of "Answers with Joe" videos so if this event may happen, we all will have to watch in the blackout without WiFi and cell phone network (+ extra protective shield made of aluminium foil to protect the laptop)

[@benjamintowns9798]

That's cute a Yank using Curling as an analogy to what the solar winds were doing. Love your content, Keep it coming.

[@yakirey.2745]

Nice! loved this episode really interesting. You got Luis Hurtado twice on your patreon though, for some reason I noticed that haha

[@leviethan4804]

I live in southern Illinois and once saw the northern lights incredibly faintly once years ago, so I guess there's hope for you

[@MisterIvyMike]

At the end of october 2003 we had a major aurora in Germany. These aurora was very bright and clear visible in Bavaria on the southern end of Germany. This was the first and the last time i have ever seen an aurora event. It was amazing and i remember it clearly more then 16 years later! But yeah, i'm lazy too, i want to see it again but i have no time or interest to drive into the cold, windy, snowy and dark northlands, because i'm not a winter fan (i hate winter and i hate snow and cold weather!)...

[@kingstinger]

I m in Montreal Quebec, i remember the outages from the solar flare, not fun. Thanks for the videos Joe.

[@tracewallace23]

Joe, you should look up something theorized (that is gaining traction) called a micro-nova. Some evidence points to it possibly happening cyclically to our star about every 11-13k years.

[@mikeking1951]

Thanks for this one Joe..cupla little new nuggets of info there for me..thanks for that

[@TeeDee87]

During winter time I have aurora app on my phone active. When there's likely to be auroras I go and take my dog for late night walk on 11pm if possible. Last winter I saw auroras about 10 times but year before was absolutelly insane and saw shit ton of beautiful ones basically from my backyard. Sad part on aurora turism is that you can predict the auroras pretty well but not the clouds. Last winter while biggest aurora measurements there was almost always cloudy. So if you or someone wants to travel to see those u must have time and probably a rental car is a good idea :). Seen more auroras on the road (I used to be winter test driver here in Finland) than on land :). We always pointed north the highway very early morning when it was still absolute darkness and my god it was dream job...

[@wwxd85]

I totally remember him already doing this episode. It's either because of the Mandella effect or because every other science communicator has already covered this event at length. Makes you wonder the point of this one. Maybe Joe should do an episode on redundancy.

[@darrenmarcum5866]

What if the astronauts were on a planet like 'The Mars' 5:24 again Joe?? LOL. Love your videos man, for real, just pickin at ya!

[@smartwittyandclever]

Darren Marcum We live on “the earth” and have sent astronauts to “the moon” and I sleep in “the bed” so why have people on “the mars”?! 😛. Needless to say, I caught that too and it made me chuckle. Love @answerswithjoe. You do a great job! Patreon Brad Dardaganian (Dar-duh-GAN-yun).

[@josephdoublin3479]

Love your videos...from one Joe to another

[@zephyrerazortail5478]

I live in northern Greenland and I've seen aurora. When I was a kid we visited family and during the night there was this huge aurora in the sky just above us. Felt like it would swoop down and whisk me away... I thought that cos dad warned me not to whistle otherwise it would do exactly that. So I had a sense of awe and fear about it. Which made me remember it all the more.

[@craigcorson3036]

0:41 "and, um, bring a coat" LMAO! Uhhh, no Joe. Bring a parka. And a couple of nice toasty flannel shirts. And some thermal underwear, maybe a pair of snowpants, depending on the season and how far north you are going. Six or eight pairs of socks, some heavy woolen mittens. a balaclava and a nice knit cap. And don't forget snow boots. Bring ALL of that, and you may survive to return to your home in the south. No promises. 😂😂😂😆😆

[@jackprier7727]

I fished 6 months in the Bering Sea--i was so excited to see the Northern Light!! We barely ever saw the sky with the near-eternal low dark clouds.

[@spideysense1418]

Love the videos Joe. Always makes me think of new and interesting things.

[@Vikanuck]

Been to Iceland a few times in my life, seen the auroras, and they are genuinely beyond your expectation of how beautiful it is. It obviously doesn’t dance in moving waves like it does in documentaries, that’s just sped up footage. They just look like a kind of ‘bright green cloud’ you have never seen in your life. Honestly, Iceland is an *entirely* different planet up there lol.

[@NextLevelCode]

You can see the moon event recreated in. For all man kind. The effect was amazing and terrifying.

[@403.FORBIDDEN]

If curiosity stream dubbed Joe's voice I'd buy without hesitation. If not, then I'll have to look more into it.

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Something about that can make a nice sci-fi. In the future, we keep a shield in Lagrange point 1 to block the Sun in case of emergency.

[@hahno455]

4 years wasn't too long to wait now was it..?