Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
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The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and have serious consequences for humanity.
How exactly do they work, how bad could they be and can we prepare for them?
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Kurzgeskart: what would happen if
2020: I’m not gonna let you get the chance.
Stop giving 2020 ideas!
Not trying to be that guy, but the two Ice Climbers are twins.
So basically if a solar flair storm thingy happens rn every electronic stuff and earth atmospher or almost everything might get in trouble due to global warming weakening our atmoshpere ?
Old playboy magazines and a couples of cold ones makes the business…
“We’ve been lucky so far.”
2020: I’m about to end these people’s whole careers.
lastchanceforaslowdance_ 02 Well just because something is repetitive doesn’t mean it is always unfunny, but your right that this humor is oversaturated
:S
@The Exoplanets Channel :3
You all should stop typing these kind of comments. Leş. I bet even the owner of the comment would not find it worth to post.
so far
2020: Coronavirus
2021: Coronal Mass Ejection
Pretty sure the CME is scheduled to happen when the BLM protests reaches their peak, so next week maybe?
This could not happen yet
We have been hit by CMEs before
So many pop culture references on this one!
Imma attempt to list them all
02:42 The Snail from Adventure Time
02:46 , 09:30 The house from Disney Pixar’s UP
03:06 Ice Climbers (Nintendo)
03:22 , 06:05 Pokéball + Ash Ketchum’s hat at the top left (Pokémon)
05:00 Magnemites floating at bottom left (Pokémon), Rick and Morty “oh man it’s a Scenario 4!”
05:15 Alolan Exeggutor (Pokémon)
06:45 Possible reference to Castle in the sky
07:20 Over the garden wall: “Potatus et molassus” song, Greg’s rock (it’s a rock fact!)
07:26 Nintendo switch: super smash? (Bowser vs Megaman) , Triforce
07:32 Ponyo on the top left display
Let me know if I missed anything
Possible? Having saw laputa again recently, I would rather say definitely!
I’m pretty sure that at 09:21 the poop is supposed to be Dingle from the Binding of Isaac. Same facial expression as when he does the Whistle.
@Mads Madsoleh I just watched this movie last night haha
You missed the Ice Climbers at 3:08
@TmanTheTdog wdym he missed them?
2020: happens*
That’s a lot of damage! How about a little more?
Sun: vomits*
*NOW THATS ALOTTA DAMAGE*
LOL people still make memes about flex seal – not complaining tho XD
Yes
Gonna need a lotta flex seal for that
“To show the power of flex tape… I sawed this earth in half!”
The pessimist in me realizes how difficult it would be to shut down the electrical grids without causing major riots and conspiracies. Huge parts of the world simply may ignore the warnings because of the temporary effects it will have, simply because they dismiss the possibility of solar storms destroying infrastructure for years on end – because they’ve never seen it before. Coronavirus has done an excellent job of showing how people and government bodies will hold out the response to prevent disaster, until it’s too late to avoid the destructive effects.
I was thinking about this too.
@Primaski Every country has lot of petrol stored. They will use it to run generators until the grid is repaired.
Using the corona virus pandemic as an example, people are definitely stupid enough to ignore it, and these said people are in the millions.
Yeah. I’m glad I live in a country where that’s unlikely to happen.
Kortex
I would like to see the enormous amount of energy generated by a solar storm hitting earth captured and stored for later use, but with current batteries that is nowhere near possible.
Kurzgesagt at the start of the video: We’re all going to die
Kurzgesagt at the end of the video: SIKE YOU THOUGHT
“Coronal Mass Ejections”
So this is 2020’s War on Two Fronts: The Micro & the Macro.
More like battle of the five armies
“If one would happen today…”
Please stop giving them ideas.
2012: A lot of bad things almost happened
2020: A lot of bad things are happening
The Mayans were just a few years off
Anthony Deng no, the Mayans were dyslexic
2020 isn’t the end of humanity you broken pickles
Austin Judge you’re a broken pickle
My response to everything the sun could potentially do:
“Can it not though?”
Scientists: “we’re going to lose all power for years”
Engineer’s solutions: “turn it off and on again”
Politician solution: How about we just ignore the problem and pretend like everything is fine?
Underrated
What, I was looking away for a few seconds and it jumped from 6👍 to 14👍
3:09 I love how the person in the blue coat just breathes in the other persons face while smiling lol.
The last time I heard experts repeat again and again: “This will happen and we are completely unprepared” it was about a global pandemic… 🤔
Kurzgesagt: Sun death laser
2020: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
Everyone: 2020 is the worst year, it can’t get worse
Me, an intellectual
2020: “What’s that, there’s a pandemic and you’re more dependent on telecommunications than ever?”
Great video. For those wondering, the *nearest exoplanet Proxima b* is unlikely to be habitable due to strong flares from the star. Same with *Trappist-1 planets.*
“the sun smooth, round, and peaceful”
well yes but actually no
I love how these videos basically explain how the world is going to end, but he always reassures everyone that we’ll be fine… For now at least.
Lol so true
Lol every time!