These Tree Rings Foretell Disaster

[@Polaris_Videos]

Relevant XKCD xkcd.com/2847/

[@lukearts2954]

last week we spotted red aurora in Belgium. Possibly from the coronal mass expulsion from a solar flare that cause the september heat wave? It was observed as a static persistent ball-like shape with a very strong glow, not a wavy set of moving rays. My mother saw it but didn't realize it at first. She lives near flower green house farms who project orange glow on the clouds at night, so she thought that perhaps a new farm had started. Only, she said, this glow was _much_ brighter, and more pink/reddish than the other farms. The fact that she thought this, suggests that the glow must have been there in the same location, shape and size for multiple hours. I don't know how the shape would form, but the description of a crucifix suggests also that it was a static and lasting appearance, which would support the aurora theory. Or it was the starship Enterprise that warped into hyperspace... X"D

[@wakcackle3555]

Both Aurora and Noctilucent cloud events were reported after the Tunguska event. What if that was more of an electrical discharge than a icy-snowball? I highly suggest this video as an introducto the Thunderbolts Project channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZaxd3WVdpeMmqM

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

The 1859 Carrington event took out telegraph systems because the telegraph used unshielded metal wires stretched across many miles. It also used the ground as a return path for the telegraph signals. This combination of long metallic conductors and the use of the earth itself as a signal conductor made the telegraph highly susceptible to disruption by a geomagnetic event. The internet, by comparison, is almost entirely made up of optical fiber cables which use light instead of electricity and are unperturbed by geomagnetic disturbances. The only place where electricity is used is at end points, which are relatively small and can be hardened. I don’t expect the internet to be affected much by a solar event. The power grid is much more likely to be affected, but even then the effects can be expected to be relatively minor compared with the Carrington event, since power systems are much more robust than the telegraph of 1959.

[@OnnieKoski]

Also, all of our home cables are shielded, especially things outside the home, which is why one needs to take special care when wiring up shed and garages for internet. You can’t just string ethernet cable from the house, it’s a whole process.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

@@OnnieKoski Twisted pair cable as used for wired ethernet is actually quite robust even if not shielded, and the network devices they plug into are optically isolated. They also are typically less than 100 meters in length. Lightning is probably more of a danger for an outside copper ethernet cable than is a geomagnetic storm. I still prefer to run fiber outside between buildings.

[@otmargreb6110]

​@@ethanlamoureux5306agreed!

[@Miss_Elaine_]

Oh, sweet summer child...

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

@@Miss_Elaine_ can you explain why he is wrong. I do not know enough about electricity to understand the error in his thinking.

[@jerry23w]

One factor you didnt mention is that our planetary magnetic field has been weakening since the Carrington event, so we are even more vulnerable than before. Also large CMEs can happen outside the solar sunspot maximum.

[@Polaris_Videos]

Very good point, thanks!

[@anaroxoa6732]

​@@Polaris_VideosI would like to know if there's a correlation between the Miyake events and all previous geomagnetic reversals and excursions that are recorded in basalt.

[@thewanderingh3rmit299]

c14 is mainly due to carrington type events otherwise known as solar micro novae, basically really big CME in the order of x100-1000s. most people would call this heresy and call such talk non scientific but little by little evidences would pile up to the point it become unable to be hidden from the normal public. And no we were not hit by a supernovae earth would be inhabitable and be stripped off its atmosphere if that actually happened.

[@bretdaley6869]

Micronova

[@Fenrires]

“Severe” space super-storms occurred 42 years out of the last 150 years. What are called “great” super-storms occurred in 6 years out of 150. By comparison the earth’s poles flip once every ~half a million years

[@THarSul]

I wonder if these events could be explained by a combination of features, like, how do they line up with the pole shifts? It could be that these insane events are a result of multiple things going wrong at once, like receiving a massive solar flare at a point in time when the magnetic field has weakened and is in the process of shifting, leaving the planet more open to high energy particle bombardment than usual.

[@Polaris_Videos]

I hadn't thought of pole shifts but it seems like an interesting thing to think about. Thanks for commenting!

[@ElectricGeology2025]

​​​@@Polaris_Videosthe 5410 or 5259 BCE events could be tied to many creation events as well. In Asian culture the Three Legged Crow (Sanzuwu in Chinese, Yatagarasu in Japanese, and Samjogo in Korea) have much to do with those creation stories. In Korean culture there is a stone totem of the Three Legged Crow with a complete halo and dates as far back as 5000 BCE. This suggests an earth directed Miyake Event. In European neolithic times, the Treskelion (Three Legs) is prominent in those creation myths. In North America, especially the Cherokee "First Fire" story, a crow brings fire to the world. This resembles the Lenape tribe's "Rainbow Crow" story too, however this last story cannot be confirmed.

[@zarroth]

The sun shows white in the sky now, instead of golden due to the weakening magnetic field, so I'm with ya on that.

[@peacepoet1947]

​@@Polaris_Videoswhat type or wave length is the radiation that changes the Hydrogen atom? X-rays? Gamma rays? I'm confused.

[@lunkerjunkie]

sounds like observer speak

[@pauls5745]

Simply amazing that growth patterns can be matched showing a timeline of trees alive at the same time. Wonderful stuff we're learning about conditions in the past!

[@RJPaul-px6vt]

Very well argued and presented. Thank you. As I live in Japan I am ashamed that I didn't know about Miyake Rings, but they are fascinating. It would be interesting to see more dendrochronological studies performed on trees even older than the Yakushima cedars, of which I believe there are quite a number around the world.

[@Xc31]

we could, but because drilling cores in trees is a prime way to spread parasitic fungi who's spores are everywhere we best leave the oldest trees alone. we can always core them once they die but risking killing them to collect non vital study material is not the way.

[@peterdeans4635]

​@@Xc31like the video creator said the tree doesn't have to be living to see these events trapped in the rings. We test timbers in old buildings to see when the tree was living in order to date buildings.

[@shaggysmortalvessel8297]

Only a few actually, and mostly dispersed sparsely across the continents. I think there are only 3 across North America, for example.

[@RJPaul-px6vt]

@@Xc31 Thanks, that's very interesting. Obviously I meant once there reach a stage where they could be examined. I'm not advocating taking a chainsaw to these precious relics!.

[@RJPaul-px6vt]

@orangegummugger1871 Just as being rude to total strangers, pretending you know everything and generally being a pathetic little troll with biscuit crumbs in your bed is part of your 'culture.'

[@pandemik0]

As an IT industry professional, I have unfortunate news. The internet is far more resilient than most realise. In a major event, you won't have a much of break from screen time. Sorry! The grid is the only weakness, and that can be (mostly) saved with a day or two's warning.

[@veronicanoll7793]

It’s the satellites you need to worry about.

[@oretan2126]

​@@veronicanoll7793the internet works through transoceanic connections, not satellites, those can be easily relaunched anyways

[@veronicanoll7793]

@@oretan2126 that part is good if they’re protected by the ocean and the structure that surrounds the lines, but, what about the satellites that Musk sent up within the past year that all were not operational after they were hit by a CME ? What do you think about the committee in 2001 for the government that said we’ll be in dire straits because our infrastructure is not hardened from CMEs. It didn’t get much TV or news because it was the year of the 911 happening and was pushed to the side due to that and probably so as not to inform the populace of a probable threat to their whole lives if one occurred in a strength that would harm unhardened electric power stations across the US ? I haven’t seen any work on them. Only Washington and their bunkers , plus military . I’ve read of a study done for vehicles. They found that if a vehicle was not running at the time of an EMP or CME that there is less likelihood of damage, but if they are, there was a good chance of damage to sensors and vehicles turning off while driving or sitting with engines on. Semi trucks had a higher percentage of damages. Older vehicles without all of the electronics were fine. 1970 or before. I don’t think car manufacturers are working on that, only military vehicles. So, we’ll have a military presence, but I don’t think there is enough to keep order. Don’t you feel they would round up the public in concentrated areas to try and keep anarchy down. Still, it couldn’t be very humane existence. Best that people know how to take care of themselves through growing food themselves, although they would have to protect their own environment around them due to others not knowing or being able to be self sufficient. The government would appropriate those foods for the military probably. The populace would be way down the line and get the scraps. What’s the thought in those areas ?

[@mairtohainle9773]

And if you were to get no warning ???

[@ximono]

Also IT professional. I'm curious, how are routing hardware and server farms protected from a Miyake size event? Would going off-grid for the duration of the event be enough? What about last mile infrastructure and the consumer hardware of users?

[@igabe98]

This was incredibly interesting, I love how you lead into CMEs by beginning with tree rings. I didn’t even realize how they could be used for studying the atmosphere

[@Cameronmid1]

You sir are the best small creator I have found in years. Really hope this video takes off like a rocket. I look forward to the rest of the series.

[@elphoenixx6127]

This deserved my sub! I look forward to any future works from you if they are even half as good as your delivery here! Well done friend. May the youtube algorithmic gods shine on you.

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thank you very much! :)

[@crypticnomad]

According to some credible estimates roughly every 11 years there is about a 12% probability of a carrington level or greater event. If I'm optimistic with how long I'll live, like assuming medical advancements and whatnot, then there is roughly a 47% chance one of these will hit in my lifetime. I'm 40 and being optimistic in my assumption that I'll live to like 95yo. Someone half my age could realistically make that assumption and could say they have roughly a ~68% chance of one hitting in their lifetime, and there is about a 95% probability that there will be one that hits within the lifetime of the grand children of the people who are roughly 20yo now.

[@billytollerton4220]

That 11 years your talking about coral ates with the sun's cycles of solar min/ max .❤

[@crypticnomad]

​@@billytollerton4220 yeah if it happens it is several orders of magnitude more likely to happen during a solar maximum, which is coming up in 2024 or 2025 btw. That doesn't mean it can't happen at other times in the solar cycle but the conditions are right for them to form. These things happen almost every cycle but they are almost always facing a direction that doesn't effect us. The probability that one happens during a solar maximum is nearly 100% but the 12% part comes from the probability that one will happen in an area that can effect us

[@jebes909090]

​@@crypticnomadthe carrington event happened during a solar minimum. Its possible it wasnt even a particularly powerful xflare. Theres a theory that a couple of events came together and their cumulative effect was exceptionally strong.

[@Fx_-]

I dont think thats how the math for that works.

[@bluespy4050]

“I was lucky, but Death rolled a lot of dice”

[@kitastro]

I look forward to it. I've already known about this but like to learn more about the actual effects on our current systems etc also the history of such events

[@TheRandomChannel_idk]

KZbin Algorithm serving me the freshest videos from Polaris. Seriously this was a really good video.

[@Polaris_Videos]

I've been blessed by the algorithm gods

[@e1123581321345589144]

23:42 airplanes don't use GPS to land, they use radar guidance; two radar beams placed near the runway tells the plane if it's aligned with the runway and follow the correct gliding slope. This is much more precise than GPS.

[@Polaris_Videos]

this is true, and something I was aware of but somehow it ended up in the script. Thanks for your feedback!

[@michaeledwards2251]

@@Polaris_Videos Your remark is valid. The radar return signal from an aircraft is the fourth power of distance : inverse square law applied twice. To overcome this the return signal amplification increases with signal delay time. The return signal is inherently weak, and induced current noise would overwhelm the return signal in a Carrington event. Even near the runway, the aluminium tube of the aircraft would have an induced electrical field : the experience of the telegraph operators in the Carrington event shows it would induce sufficient electrical energy to cause signal failure.

[@michaeledwards2251]

@@Polaris_Videos It is my understanding a powerful CME travels much faster than background solar radiation and would reach earth in only a few hours.

[@michaeledwards2251]

@@Polaris_Videos An additional factor is the possibility a solar minimum allows the build up of an electrical event similar to a hurricane which requires low general turbulence to build up.

[@jmonlive]

That will not stop mass suicide when people like me go "apes" over the literal ungraceful shutown of the Internet like how a computer might crash...but here you would otherwise have to wait out the natural 'EMP'...this should be treated like a higher priority than even Y2K was if we want another option to mass suicide!

[@QueerCatEssays]

This was even more fascinating than I expected. Your explanation was clear and concise, and the graphics you used to aid your explanation were nothing short of brilliant. I hope this video goes big time for you 🔥 Also, this video's thumbnail might be one of the best thumbnails I've ever seen. Immediately made me think of things like Evangelion. I'm glad I clicked :)

[@Polaris_Videos]

Haha thank you! I had to restrict myself from more NGE references or it would be full of them

[@kateapple1]

Video was great! Sound tho… sounds like you’re recording in a tin can

[@andrewholdaway813]

Shill

[@Cameronmid1]

​@@kateapple1I kind of like the sound. It gives a video character and a certain ambiance as if he's recording it after an event like he's talking about.

[@zenokarlsbach4292]

Very Nice.

[@hawklord100]

Similar records indicate that the British isles was hit by a comet in 562 AD and may also have happened in 536AD with a tsunami as well as recorded by Dendrology on timbers found in irish bogs and recorded by many writers of the day of the summer that was lost and the mass migration to Brittany, hence its name.

[@andyharpist2938]

When the best of the Ireland, the cleverest and most able, left and set up in Middlesborough on Tees.

[@leechild4655]

Writers got together and had a bit of a contest to see who writes the scariest story from all the gloom and doom at this time. Shelley won and her work was published for all to read. Not sure what other stories where written by the others in the group

[@E4439Qv5]

Bram Stoker's _Dracula_ came of the same challenge, as I recall... naturally, Vlad the Impaler was a much older figure to draw folklore from, but it's funny to think of the two as linked in that way. Immortalized undead.

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

@@E4439Qv5 vampires stood up better than Frankenstein

[@Fenrires]

I hear Fifty Shades of Grey was penned on this gloomy Victorian evening.

[@E4439Qv5]

@@Fenrires Subtle. And good call out. It was John Polidori's "The Vampyre." Stoker's _Dracula_ was just on the reading list for that literature class.

[@Eldritch-1]

@@E4439Qv5 Was an Absinth fuelled night and challenge.

[@beamshooter]

I remember reading a paper on dentrochronology used to determine magnetic pole shifts. The interesting part was when the author argued that it occured around the same time our ancestral species found comfort in caves… perhaps because it was neccessary to avoid the beating radiation on the plains.

[@anatomicallymodernhuman5175]

Bingo. And our field is rapidly shifting and weakening now.

[@ximono]

​@@anatomicallymodernhuman5175Googles "caves near me"…

[@duudsuufd]

I don't think they were much affected by radiation because they were rather hairy humans.😜

[@SolarBalls]

congrats on blowing up!

[@thecorneliusexperience]

Phenomenal content bro, if you keep this up you'll go far. Subbed

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks so much!

[@lauriecroad3186]

Easily understood breakdowns of subjects I did not cover at School or College. Thankyou for your efforts to "Make it simple for I am slightly stupid" have worked, for I have subscribed.

[@lesliechristensen6974]

I like those paintings. Particularly, "The Monk by the Sea."

[@doomakarn]

I think it's important to note that the internet being down isnt just the internet being down, data servers all around the world may take significant damage and could possibly render immense amounts of human knowledge destroyed. Worst-case scenario it could be the largest loss of information since the burning of the library of Alexandria.

[@teldrah]

That's why it's so important NOT to throw out all your paper books at home. One day, you might be very glad that you have some written knowledge to fall back on.

[@TheLilRoland]

Good info for you my friend, yes library of Alexandria did burn but the books are all saved and they are kept secret in the Vatican city, Italy.

[@doomakarn]

@@TheLilRoland peak conspiracy theory

[@djmanley27]

Not the cat videos! 😱

[@Eterif]

The library of alexandria is heavily romanticized, and but the time it was destroyed it had lost its importance.

[@johncipolletti5611]

Predict disaster of the internet???? As a 50 year programmer, I say that it already happened when they invented social media like Facebook!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Too true

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

Thank you for such an easy to understand, clear and concise explanation of events I had previously been unaware of, how they were recorded in history in various ways and how a similar event could affect our world today. It makes me think of how much more connected to our planet we were in the past. Technology can be a good thing, for example, I love my wireless device I used to watch this video, but how much pollution and environmental damage was done in order to create it and keep it powered? Mining and refining the minerals, transporting them, creating the parts, creating the robots and the software that is used in their creation, the cost of transporting the parts to be assembled and finally shipped to me.

[@NoDarks]

All the materials were already here on earth retard, there is no polluting the earth.

[@sidviscous5959]

I find myself wanting to know much more about the "wonderful serpents seen in the land of the South Saxons." That to me was more interesting than the red cross.

[@Polaris_Videos]

Yeh that is also very interesting. The could be linked to an aurora, or something else entirely...

[@kevingrierson2331]

Auroras in the sky?

[@twddersharkmarine7774]

You are massively underrated for a channel that have a decent to good quality content, you have my subscription, besides that, i learned new things today

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thank you :)

[@rafaelarevalo8047]

this video was fantastically well put together. i have never heard of your channel, but i glad to have found you in my recommended. keep it up!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks! :)

[@pixxelwizzard]

Interesting video. I had an incomplete understanding of carbon14 decay and I really enjoyed this explanation, along with everything else. Well done!

[@jonnyphenomenon]

This video was fantastic! You earned yourself a sub. Can't wait to see more from this channel.

[@tardwranglerwithouttheb]

This was an incredible video. The fact that, at the time of writing, this only has 382 likes but TEN THOUSAND views is just insane.

[@E4439Qv5]

Is now 3.4 likes, but at 125,000 views. Apparently it scales? :/

[@constancegreiner906]

219K views, 6.3k likes, since 2 weeks posted.

[@constancegreiner906]

219K views, 6.3k likes, since 2 weeks posted.

[@piero_75]

That's totally normal! Look at any video on yt.

[@Quon]

because some people use likes to save videos in the playlist so they don't like everything

[@littlespinycactus]

Stellar! A YT recommendation worth watching is rarer than a CME, but they hit the spot with this one: fascinating topic; elegant presentation; immersive audio-visuals- what's not to love? Liked, subbed, off to peruse your channel's back catalogue for more sterling stuff.

[@Maatkara1000]

The fact that people that were non the wiser recorded stellar or cataclysmic events that we now can study is absolutely fantastic. I was overjoyed (in a way) when I found out that mount Tambora's explosion led to the creation not only of Frankenstein, but of Dracula too through Polidori's "The Vampire", written in that same evening. Finding out that we can know when a supernova took place because it was seen by different clueless-about-it people around the world and recorded for us to find about it is... just mindblowing

[@markpiffer6492]

Extremely well made! Subscribed!

[@KetilDuna]

This is the best animation or illustration I have seen in such a video - clean and informative. A Carrington event should be planned for I think - secure data storage, preventive action and plans for repairs.

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks, I spent a lot of time on the animations :)

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Humanity is not concerned with long term survivability of it's own species; only short term gain is of any priority. The greatest, most powerful people are the greediest, most dishonest, lying, cheating, people on earth. It's human nature, to be self centered, to continue our own genetic line. Even the most ignorant, stupidest person, truly believes that HIS DNA is of optimal importance to continue on, and he will kill in order to make sure that happens. This is what will inevitably cause the distruction of the human race; our own lack of concern for the long term viability of others. All that matters to the people who make the decisions, is gain of personal power and wealth during their own lifetime.

[@megan00b8]

Fortunately nowadays shielding is significantly more common, and if we had a couple days of warning I would absolutely cover all of my electronic devices in grounded aluminium foil to exagerrate this wonderful precaution even further.

[@TheALLVEGAS]

This feels like a LEMMiNO video. Keep up the great work, I genuinely believe that your channel will easily hit 100k subs if you continue to make content like this!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks! LEMMiNO is a big inspiration and one of the best KZbinrs out there (in my opinion), so it's an honour to be compared

[@Kyle_Warweave]

As above so below. I cannot add something distinguishable from the other praising comments about your video. A piece of work/art that does distinguish itself from so many other videos on YT. Brilliant !

[@q_and_a]

Wow, this is amazing! The video is so well written and directed !

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thank you

[@dr.fistingstein1566]

Excellent video. You earned my sub and, after being on KZbin for 15+ years, my first ever.... ringing of the bell. Can't wait to watch more. Onward and upward!

[@yvngvudu]

Such an underrated channel wtf

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks :)

[@The13thRonin]

Cool story bro. See you on the internet tomorrow.

[@ParadiseLordRyu]

Is this Third Impact?

[@NickWrightDataYT]

This is the kind of video that NEEDS to be on KZbin. I've wanted to add it as a favorite like 12 times while watching, even though I already added it! Incredible.

[@GronTheMighty]

I wish I'd learned more of strange and barely/poorly-explained historical events such as the Red Crucifix event in history classes, but then there were never enough of those to begin with to even cover a meaningful fraction of human-causal/centric history.. Here's to hoping we'll continue getting wiser, smarter, as well as wiser about getting smarter, and smarter about retaining, refining, and spreading wisdom. 🥂

[@Bipolarfuchs]

I clicked on the video because the thumbnail was visually reminiscent of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I found the content fascinating and the presentation stunning, thank you for that, I thoroughly enjoyed that!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Praise NGE

[@tubsaroundtheworld]

Your channel is about to blow up. Take us with you! 🙏😅 Seriously, awesome content, it’s obvious how much work went into this, you should be very proud. Good luck YouTubing! (PS: invest in a condenser microphone!)

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks a lot!

[@glennmcco]

One thing I'm not sure if I missed or it just wasn't mentioned, did the Carrington event show up in the dendrochronological record?

[@Sophieeb4321]

Very interesting!! 🌳

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks!! Always the first to comment :)

[@tantalisinglabrat]

Brilliant video. Thanks so much for your effort. ❤️ From 🇿🇦

[@wunderstein8224]

You definitely earned a subscription with this video. Look forward to seeing more, this is excellently put together and presented; the incorporation of the data analysis with simple to read and concise annotations on charts, graphs, and other graphics really brings it all together. I've got a feeling this channel will be massively larger within a year's time, it's up there with the best of similarly styled channels.

[@ronnetgrazer362]

Right?! No fluff, no hype, just facts for earth dwellers presented in a calm, collected manner. Perun and Asianometry were already among my subscriptions, and now this channel.

[@Geetardave420]

Agreed. Top notch content. Thank you!

[@AdiosAdiosAdios]

Was recommended this, this is amazing. Your channel will definitely blow up keep up the great content!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks!!

[@poughkeepsieblue]

Dont forget, the only way to count the rings on a tree is to chop it down, or find it recently dead, and chop it down. They will chop you down just to count your rings, just to count your rings. Used to draw, hard to admit that i "used " to draw...

[@PsilocybinMagic]

Good stuff, dude 😎

[@Polaris_Videos]

thanks so much!

[@picksalot1]

At, 6:00, the Narrator said "Trees grow from the inside out." That is incorrect. "Trees grow from the outside; the wood left on the inside does not grow. The growing layer is called the cambium and exists just under the bark; that is why trees that are “barked” all the way around die, because the cambium is exposed and destroyed."

[@Polaris_Videos]

yah that's true - I was trying to suggest (and I think I make it clear later on) that the center of the tree is the oldest. But I understand how that line could be misconstrued, my bad. Thanks for the feedback!

[@MaverickSeventySeven]

Excellent Report! What about the 'irregular' cross- section circumference of the trees, why not just circular? Moreover, surely the North, South, East and West factors are as important to understanding growth in relation to the direction of Cosmic forces and geographic events?

[@Polaris_Videos]

Both good points

[@donnievance1942]

We know the main factors that cause tree trunk cross-sections to deviate from circular. One of the main factors is reaction wood growth. Reaction wood is high density wood that grows on a particular side of a tree to resist forces like prevailing wind pressures. The tree responds to pressure that would bend or tip it over by concentrating growth on whichever side it needs to resist the pressure. Also, a tree growing underneath the canopy must grow in whatever direction it needs to reach the best light, so it must grow towards open parts of the canopy. The necessity to grow in a leaning direction also causes it to develop reaction wood in order to support itself against the pull of gravity. There are other similar issues involved. I can't think of any model by which the cosmic radiation factors discussed in this video would induce asymmetric growth. I'm pretty sure that examination of the issue would show no correlation between cross-section shape and radiation factors, simply because deviation in shape is so variable within any given age class of trees at a given site that this data noise would massively drown out any relevant signal. I say this as a former forest data collection technician.

[@MaverickSeventySeven]

@donnievance1942 - Thanks, rather suspected that - there are 'survival' videos out there that explain how to find the compass points by observing, eg, which side moss grows on tree trunks, leaf orientation etc, under overcast skies.

[@jeffmatulich6857]

bravo....golf clap.....very well articulated. I learned nothing new, but your presentation will hopefully let others learn and seek other supporting material to grasp our fragile world in which we live.

[@XDamainI]

My first thought about the crucifix would be a red sprite type event but it probably would have had to last a lot longer. Perhaps it is some sort of geological event like volcanic activity that released a very large amount of radon gas or uranium dust? That could have created a volcanic storm and red sprites could have been seen in an unusually large amount from the lightning activity. This could explain why it was only observed in Europe and only for 1 day. It could also explain the serpents snaking out, not an aurora event but very large lighting arches.

[@roybarrows9733]

Well done! This is the first of your videos I've seen, but it got me to subscribe. I'm curious about the video maker. Are you a scientist?

[@EloHimAndHers]

I've been developing a formula to predict solar activity so we can be prepared for the next Carrington Event and your video reminded me of the beauty and pragmatic utilization of Dendrochronology; thank you for inspiring one more missing key element I need to add in my formula to accurately predict harmful solar storms & CMEs. You'd laugh if I told you what I'm using to predict the sun's behavior but it's over 85% accurate to the day within a couple hours! I'm not sure where to go with this info but as soon as I have it perfected, I'll make it public somehow for the safety of our human race. Thanks for the awesome video! #newsubscriber

[@phillylifer]

The strange phenomenon of feeling proud and privileged to among the first hundreds to become a subscriber here

[@Polaris_Videos]

you make me blush

[@geoffreymartin6363]

I feel like there's a decent chance it might cause Kessler syndrome too. If we're lucky it won't affect the satellites too much, but if it were to affect anything with thrust capabilities and sends it on a different path we might have a problem, one we might not even know is happening until debris starts falling. The fibre lines won't be as affected so the broader internet might be up quicker than we might expect, but I doubt entertainment services will be priority for the first month at least. The social problems are the most dangerous. If every network and everything with power dies, people will run to steal food and supplies, and even attempt to get fuel without the pumps working, which could end with spills and explosions. If this situation does happen, keep calm, carry on, and work to help your community as much as possible, cause us humans are sustained by society. We might lose the skies but as long as we stick together and don't freak the fuck out, we'll be okay.

[@elisehalflight]

As someone who is soon to marry a pilot, a scenario like this is absolutely scary

[@ximono]

Yes, as long as people don't freak out… If I was in a densely populated area, I'd get the hell out of there.

[@romagnolo]

Once again the KZbin algorithm hits another great score by recommending this video. Great work, subscribed

[@aishaburhaniyya7532]

Aurora Australis can be seen in the sky over Tasmania, quite beautiful they are too

[@ishtaraletheia9804]

This is unsettling in the way science fiction short story can be. Fascinating concept, excellently presented.

[@rustyshackleford9888]

The thumbnail made me think this video was about Evangelion at first.

[@subarunatsuki4145]

Same

[@tapejara1507]

I feel like I should pay to watch this video thats how good it is. great information thank you

[@antecboy]

Couldn't the higher amount of carbon-14 be caused by a big volcano eruption, launching a huge amount of carbon-12 into the upper atmosphere, where it would have less protection from cosmic radiation being that high, it would have pumped some extra electrons into the carbon-12 and turned it into carbon-14, which then over months was partially absorbed by the trees and therefore showed up in their annular growth rings? Or was this caused by some external cosmic event or maybe both happening simultaneously?

[@Polaris_Videos]

I'm not sure about this, it would need to be a huge amount of carbon dioxide in released into the atmosphere for this to be true. But certainly something to investigate further

[@antecboy]

@@Polaris_Videos I'm an electronics engineer, so I self admit that I'm far from a layman on radiation and isotopes, but I understand the concepts. I just need to sometimes troubleshoot and debug hardware and software, so I have done quite the amount of logical thinking of measuring behavior and then trying to logic out the underlying reasons why such behavior could happen. If in case carbon-14 shows higher concentrations in the tree rings when massive volcano eruptions have happened, it could also be that the environment beneath the earth's mantle, in the molten soup is violent and hot enough that the conditions allow carbon-14 to be formed (assuming it is created from carbon-12 and there just isn't a boatload of carbon-14 existing in there in the first place that gets ejected). Second big question is also, is cosmic radiation even capable of turning carbon-12 to carbon-14 if it's available in the upper atmosphere and less protected. And if it is possible, could another cosmic event than what our sun could make, increase the amount of carbon-12 turning into carbon-14.

[@anthonymorris9061]

​@@antecboycarbon-14 is produced when cosmic rays impact nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere. An increase in C-14 would require an increase in cosmic rays.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

@@anthonymorris9061 A stellar micronova might do that.

[@michaelj1492]

@@anthonymorris9061 Thank you!! It was getting painful.

[@mathgeniuszach]

You know it's bad when the universe itself is planning on telling everyone to go touch grass

[@oatlord]

I hope it doesn't happen in summer when it does. Would rather freeze than sweat all day and night.

[@AkDragosani]

Very informational 👍🏻

[@KatSchlitz]

You will have a million subscribers in a year if you keep creating such spectacular educational videos as this. Thank you! Edit: I just saw that you have been going at this for three years already. It takes a while for the algorithm to make quality visible to us. Nonetheless you are about to explode since this one is being served up widely and you deliver so astoundingly well 👏

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks so much!

[@cherristub5776]

I agree this is awesome

[@dumptrump3788]

One aspect of modern telecommunications that was overlooked in this video is that, unlike during the Carrington Event, almost all long distance & nearly all high speed (even short distance) communications is now fibre optic & they are not affected by electric or magnetic fields.

[@charlesjmouse]

Very well presented. The thing I find most intriguing about 'Miyake events' is that if a 'Carrington event' can produce such startling Aurora and a seemingly far more powerful 'Miyake event' is somewhat similar in origin then why are there no credible records? A nearby supernova might cause a C14 spike without such visible results, but as noted there are no reports of 'guest stars', no known candidates found today, and none of the other tell-tale consequences of a nearby-ish supernova. It's all very perplexing, making one wonder what possibilities we might be wholly unaware of.

[@Polaris_Videos]

that, in essense, is the big mystery

[@mikedoyle2023]

You're close. So close. What about a nearby-ish micronova??? 😉

[@veramae4098]

The Carrington Event happened about 6 months or a year ago. it missed us. The Earth's orbit around the sun is large. We got lucky. Carrington Events can be seen, and we'd have 2 - 3 days warning to turn everything off and hunker down. There'd be damage, but not too bad. Without turning things off and waiting, repairs in the U.S. would cost $1 TRILLION. Just the U.S. I didn't know about Miyaki Events before this vid. Wow!

[@ingvaraberge7037]

Note that Betelgeuse is about to go supernova. That star is really big and really close. Can we be so sure that the supernova won't harm us, as they constantly say? But I find it unlikely that supernovas of that size show up regularly around us, so this can hardly be the explanation of past Miyake events.

[@peterhumphreys9201]

@@ingvaraberge7037 Betelgeuse is NOT 'so close'. One less thing to worry about.

[@az8557]

Super amazing video, liked and subscribed

[@hi-im-michael]

You could have made this video a very fear-monger-y experience, or leaned into conspiracy theories, etc. You didn’t and instead leaned more into education, which made this a very enjoyable video! I can easily see you becoming a nebula supported channel in the future! Keep up the good work!

[@tonyr4873]

He did veer into fear mongering and conspiracy theory, to some degree, by mentioning climate change a few times.

[@et8893]

08:35 So if we were heading into a high radiation part of our galaxy, would this be a sign of why Carbon has increased in the past and possibly now as well.??????

[@The.171]

so underrated, feels like a million sub documentary

[@The.171]

it was so thrilling i forgot the idea of the title during it

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thanks a mill, glad you like it :)

[@landojefferson7215]

Wow, subbed! Fantastic delivery of the information. Proven or not, it was highly intriguing, as well as entertaining. Not many content creators these days can present a speculative, yet unbiased hypothesis, and have it not misrepresented as a proposed objective fact, nor an emotion driven counter narrative. Documentaries made in this style, are debatably the most effective at presenting a hybrid content of both subjective theory and established science. I feel many docs were made this way prior to the 2000s but lost popularity ever since, as society grew to value dramatics and entertainment, rather than videos that inspire drive for research in the viewer or promote thought experiments among the free thinkers. I hope you continue making content like this!

[@jackaubrey8614]

A Myake event with 12 times the power of a Carrington event would have far longer reaching effects on our modern society than you assume in the video. For one thing, simply "powering down" systems would NOT prevent them being badly damaged or even destroyed by such an event as the effect of an EMP (which is what this is) induces massive generated currents in any conductive material *irrespective of them being powered on or not*. Switch off your flat-panel TV and disconnect it from the mains and the electronic circuits will still have current induced and be fried - it will not be repairable. Multiply that across the globe with every computer system on the planet and you have a disaster it might take decades to recover from if at all. Also, let's not forget that the Earths' magnetic field is much weaker than it was in 1859 and therefore offers considerably less protection from this type of threat. If it happens, it will not be fun....

[@PisceanKiwi]

Learn your wild herbs, start a garden (even just 1 planter box with peas or beans - they are [almost] complete dietary foods), download your old books and tv shows and movies on a drive inside a Faraday cage, have spare water, have at least a month's food, and wish you all the best of luck in the next two decades

[@Fish-ub3wn]

20:37 - in case of a large cme eruption, which can be caused by a cloud of gas striking the surface of the sun - ie a very large plasma filament - it can be off from the colar cycles, also the cme will be less dense, more widespread and can create massive geomagnetic storms and red auroras in the lower lattitudes. in the meantime, the arrival of the cme may produce "sun dogs" - cross-shaped halos, mostly seen in the mountains with a sediment in the air or high moisture. both of these combined will create a sky-wide red rucufix with burning aurorae, making even more sophisticated people fall to their knees. For a space weatherman, this story is very entertaining. The magnetic matrix of the solar system on the exact day would be nice to analyze - there are massive and slow cme's in the solar calm periods, created by induced currents when specific planets pass by and their fields interact with the sun's solar wind systemic sheet, or matrix. (look up nasa's ENLIL model)

[@a1exanderparra]

Im so early to this channel but its so good.. keep it up 🙏🏽

[@prtauvers]

We need another Carrington event to stop the AI Apocalypse right in its tracks. I hate to imagine the mitigation the AIs will devise to preserve themselves from such natural disasters.

[@duvipearson6251]

The matrix will prevail. it is inevitable.

[@numnut1516]

One of the most valuable things a KZbinr can have is good audio quality.

[@landroveraddict2457]

Could the 774 event been caused by a gamma ray burst from another solar system?

[@jesiclaire]

This was a great video! Love the channel name too ♡. I subscribed 😊.

[@nodnarb54]

This is very unlikely but the red crucifix could have been the result of a combination of the red aurora and the southern crux constellation.😅 Albeit, due to the precession of the Earth's pole, the constellation hasn't risen above the horizon in some parts of the northern night sky since 400 CE. But certain factors could have allowed people in southern England to see the crux constellation 1248 years ago. Facing south during spring, when the big dipper is highest in the sky, the Crux would be highest on the horizon for certain northern latitutes. This is a huge stretch because england is in the 50 degrees latitude and during 774 CE, it would probably have been difficult/impossible to see it even in areas of 40 degrees lat without an advatange of elevation. But it still makes me wonder if it could have been seen standing on the peak of High Willhays or looking over the ocean on most southern area west of Plymouth in 774.

[@DrachenGothik666]

The Southern Cross would never be seen in the Northern sky. It's never been seen over North of Southern Florida. WTF, have you been smoking meth? To see the Southern Cross constellation in England would require the Earth to roll Northward almost 30 degrees. It's called the _Southern_ Cross for a fucking _reason._ Are you a child of 10 or something?

[@danielduncan6806]

We just had a volcano erupt last year, about equal to the Mount Tambora eruption, perhaps even larger. But this one was underwater. So instead of having the effect of cooling, it is actually heating our planet. Instead of rock and ash being flung up into our atmosphere, it was gas and water vapor. And instead of stopping the light/heat from entering, it is allowing it in but not allowing it out. This year was the year without a winter. With me being able to go out in shorts on Christmas day. I have never, in my 44 years of life, ever had such a warm winter.

[@98Zai]

Given how the red crucifix was mentioned with only a single sentence I don't think the author believed those crazy people. Cool video! Trees rock.

[@Inkling777]

Crazy? I'd be more inclined to believe that of you than them. Something isn't true or false because it is "mentioned only in a single sentence." The brevity of the statement simply makes it hard to determine what it was. Where in the sky was it? Was it large or small? How long did in remain in the sky? Not knowing that makes it hard to determine what it was.

[@98Zai]

@@Inkling777 Yes, but there were weird religious stuff "bad omens, signs" mentioned often in history, even during christian times. Lots of stuff during the black death etc. Just because it could vaguely be real doesn't mean it is. Take religious events in history with a huge spoon of salt, always.

[@RogerSchwarz66]

Could be a red sprite. Looks also like a kind of cross in the sky, isn't it?

[@viceroybear6298]

Suspicious observer has some great videos on solar micronova is going on in our galaxy, our star is due for a solar micronova

[@markmcleod6376]

This was excellent!! Thanks you so much!

[@Polaris_Videos]

Thank you :)

[@deavman]

Suspicious observers entered rhe chat....

[@maxmcallister49]

Absolutely amazing video!! I LOVE the visuals ❤ you deserve millions of views on this

[@rezazazu]

Great content! 👍

[@Polaris_Videos]

thanks!

[@orthoplex64]

Very polished; well done. Might be worth it to invest in a better microphone though. Also nice reference at 24:15

[@ahobimo732]

This was fantastic. A very clear explanation of a threat that should be more widely recognized.

[@ubntu]

This is the single most fascinating documentary I've seen in a long time.

[@PMundi]

These animations are bloody gorgeous, such excelent graphic design. Also, I guess this narration style is a genre at this point.