1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: From UFOs two, ghosts and government cover ups. History is 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello, everyone, 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. My name is Matt and 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: I'm Ben, and that makes this stuff they don't want 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: you to know. And today we're talking about the magnificent 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: nuclear powered sphere that's mostly made up of hydrogen and 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: helium and it's been burning for over four and a 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: half billion years, which is kind of weird to think, 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: you know, when you think about what a year is, 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: I have a hard time comprehending an entire month. Well, yeah, 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: that is a long time. Although it feels like January 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: came and went already, which is a little weird. Yeah, 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: I feel as there were time travelers are ripped them winkles. 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: We've become unstuck in time. But even if we were 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: to travel to the very beginning of Earth's origins, we 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: would still be running into that massive ball we call 18 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: the Sun. Uh. A little funny fact about the Sun, 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: well might be not funny to some people. It is 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: responsible for all of the life that we know. The 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: Sun's energy feeds the very it's the entry level of 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: the world's life forms, and without it we would not 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: be alive. So if you want to trace the origins 24 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: of your existence, uh, in you're going by the energy, 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: then you are going to inevitably run into uh the 26 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: solar energy that plant forms taken and it later filters 27 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: down to you and the things that you eat, and 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: that you can cause an atmosphere to form, so that 29 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: any kind of plant life or you know, even earlier 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: than that. Right, And so I know we're making the 31 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: sun look great here. It sounds like, you know, an 32 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: online dating profile for how awesome the sun is and 33 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: how much it will take. Karen used to be a 34 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: deity back in the day. Yeah, and it's it's all 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: nurturing and stuff. Uh. Also, the Sun has a dirty 36 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: open secret, which is that in a few billion years, uh, 37 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 1: this awesome stellar parent it's a pun. Sorry, somebody put 38 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: in the bad pun music. Okay, I earned it. I 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: will be the last one. But like one of those 40 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: awesome parents who occasionally goes on a horrific binge of 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: mass murder, the Sun will expand and destroy the planet. 42 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: That is not supervillain hyperbole. It will literally destroy planet Earth. 43 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: We've got a while before it happens. But we also, uh, 44 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: we also have some uh some other sun shenanigans that 45 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: pose a much more clear and present danger to steal 46 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: the title of a movie. Every once in a while 47 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: that sun gets a little angry? Will parts of it 48 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: get angry? When when I say little, I mean several 49 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: hundred times the diameter of Earth angry? Wow, that doesn't 50 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: make any sense, though it does make sense because it's 51 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 1: a way to show the scale of the Earth. A 52 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 1: small disturbance in the force of the Sun is uh 53 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: probably going to be several times larger than the Earth anyway. 54 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: And one one thing that we need to hit real 55 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: quick or the basic facts. Right, So, how far away 56 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: is the sun? The sun is about eight I think 57 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: it's around eight light minutes away from the Earth. That's terrifying. Well, yeah, 58 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: it's terrifying. It's also nice because it's warm, any warm, 59 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: we get that fresh sunlight. We're in the the old 60 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: Goldilocks zone. Uh. Then we also need to talk about 61 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: how hot or how much energy it produces. Let's go 62 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: with how hot. How hot is the sun at the core? 63 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: So right at the core, it's uh, it's over it's 64 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: greater than fifteen million degrees kelvin kelvin not celsius. He's 65 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: a bit the warm. And we also know that in 66 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: addition to hydrogen and helium, the Sun is composed of 67 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: some very strong magnetic fields. Yeah, that's kind of what 68 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: keeps the whole system going. And sometimes those magnetic fields 69 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: get a bit disrupted. You'll have it's tough to really 70 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: paint a picture, but you have to think about it 71 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: as for me, at least, this helps when you think 72 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: about it as these electromagnetic coils that sometimes, uh, they 73 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: tighten a little bit, they get a little tangled, and 74 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: they tighten up, and that's when you'll see something called 75 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: the sun spot, where it's a little dark on the 76 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: surface of the Sun. And if you if you go 77 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: check out the Solar Dynamics Observatory, you can get a 78 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: really good picture of what I'm talking about, UM, and 79 00:04:54,360 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: those are the places that people who observe the sun, uh, astronomers, 80 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: they really get a little nervous when you see, especially 81 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: a large sun spot or a sun spot that's kind 82 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: of in a cluster. Right. Yeah, we do know that 83 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: sun spots tend to occur more towards the equator of 84 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: the Sun, and we know that observation of sun spots 85 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: dates back pretty far. Several thousand years ago astronomers in 86 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: China noticed sun spots, so the twelfth century BC a 87 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: thing called the Book of Changes because all the good 88 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: book titles weren't taken by that point, so you can 89 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: still have really cool names like that. Uh, they recorded 90 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: a sun spot. They said the sun was yellow at 91 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: its rising, and a black vapor as large as a 92 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: coin was observed at its center. And then on the 93 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: other side of the world, the Aztecs UH ruling Mexico 94 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: before the Spaniards arrived, also paid attention to the Sun 95 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: and its cycles and it's sun spots. Now, sun spots 96 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: are natural thing, and human beings have been aware of 97 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: their existence, if not there um causes for a long time. 98 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 1: And now that we know that the causes come from 99 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: magnetic disturbances and the Sun's force, uh, we also have 100 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: learned a couple of other things. We've learned that they're 101 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: on a cycle, right, that the Sun has a cycle. 102 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: Every eleven years or so, it hits what's called a 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: solar maximum, and that's when these solar flares are much 104 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: more likely to occur in clusters right, Yeah, And and 105 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: the reason that they're a little scary is because they 106 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: have the potential to cause some serious harm, uh, two 107 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: planet Earth. They also have the potential to cause harm 108 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: to a lot of our electronics UM. And I guess 109 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: that's really our communications because they, like I was saying, 110 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: they coil up, and they coil really tightly, and sometimes 111 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: they'll just release and and basically nothing will happen. There 112 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: won't be any kind of craziness on the on the Sun. 113 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: But sometimes if it goes past the breaking point and 114 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: basically those coils snap back in place, you'll have a 115 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: solar flare. Solar flare will occur. Yeah, and a solar 116 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: flare is a the easy way to find it if 117 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: you're looking at it through a telescope, it would be 118 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: a sudden brightening observe over the Sun's surface or the 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: solar limb. And uh, this is a huge release of 120 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: energy UM. The number that I found for it was 121 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: six to six times ten to the jewels. It's yeah, 122 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: it's crazy because it's it's not only releasing light and 123 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: releasing X rays and raise UM. It also has the 124 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: potential to cause something called a coronal mass ejection or 125 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: a cm E. And that's where it gets really hairy 126 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: for the Earth, right, Yeah, because the Earth, like the Sun, 127 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: has its own magnetosphere, and this magnetosphere is also sensitive 128 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: to uh, disturbances from the Sun's magnetosphere. Because again, you know, 129 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: in the scale of the Solar System, let alone the galaxy, 130 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: the Sun and the Earth are really really close. We're 131 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: pretty much bumper to bumper, and uh, that's that's a 132 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: great spot, except when these kind of things happen. So 133 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: you and I did a video episode on this that 134 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: really caught both of our interests, and we did it 135 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: a while back, right, And here's the question, this is 136 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: the question we're gonna answer in this podcast, Matt. Is 137 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: it possible that a CME could destroy Earth's electronics? Yes, 138 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: is the answer. Okay, because a CME is essentially a 139 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: magnetic shock wave that's being sent out from from the 140 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: Sun and depending on where it's headed, if it's headed 141 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: towards the Earth, you can have some serious issues. So first, 142 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: let's think about what's floating around outside on the let's 143 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: say in space really close to Earth. We've got all 144 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: these satellites and modern civilization depends on these for a 145 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 1: number of things, right, a ton of things. And if 146 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: you have an electromagnetic disturbance that could say was powerful 147 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: enough to shut down some of those electronics, which it 148 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: can be, that's not good, right, Yeah, I would say 149 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: that's that's apocalyptic. But it's not just satellites. Uh, those 150 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: are important and the lack of communication would be a 151 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: terrible thing. But it also has the potential to knock 152 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: out the entire energy grid, which is pretty insane when 153 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: you think about because depending on where it hits, with 154 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: the severity with which it hits, it can it has 155 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: the potential to a cme to essentially fry some cables 156 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: that are going from your power plants, say, to the 157 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: rest of the grid. And if that happens, you can 158 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: have a rolling blackout, which which could be really bad 159 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: because if it if it occurs, then you can have 160 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: basically copper wire being fried throughout an entire region of 161 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: the U S. And we're just speaking about the U 162 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: S right now, because that's the model that I've looked at. Yeah, 163 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: and that well, we also have the North American model 164 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: that can kind of incorporate parts of Canada. So so 165 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: we know that when a grid is effective when a 166 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: power grid is affected, it's frighteningly easy to produce a 167 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: domino or a snowball effect. So because the grid supplies load, uh, 168 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: if it has too much of a load, then it's 169 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: just as bad as it not having enough power. When 170 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: one segment of this system is destroyed, then this means 171 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: that other segments of the system will be hit with things. 172 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: The way that the rolling blackout occurs is that different 173 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: chains of the power system are trying to fight an 174 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: increasing number of anomalies. You know, so we said a 175 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: domino effect, right, so when you knock out one domino, 176 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 1: it's next to other dominoes and a knocks him out sequentially. Um. 177 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: I don't want to scare anybody into thinking that the 178 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: entire North American power system is a house of cards, 179 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: but I do want people to realize that if the 180 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: right solar flare or excuse me, the right cme hits 181 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: at the right time, then we will lose terrestrial power. 182 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: And this this is where and I could get a 183 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: little apocalyptic. All right, So, so well we're talking about 184 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: disrupting power. You know, it's tempting to think, oh man, 185 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: what a what a crappy inconvenience. I'm gonna have to 186 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: read a book. Go outside. What is that? But what 187 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: we're talking about, uh could potentially be a disaster that 188 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: is unprecedented history. Think of all the people right now, 189 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: just in your town whose lives depend on a reliable 190 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: stream of electricity. This would be people in hospitals, This 191 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: would be people who are maybe even driving a car, 192 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: which is something I wanted to ask you about. Um. 193 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: And then let's look at the satellites as well, So 194 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: we said losing communication, Yeah, that could be huge. Um. 195 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: The ability to communicate using satellite is the reason that 196 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: ships don't go off course. The ability to communicate that 197 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: way is the reason that planes are able to uh 198 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: land without killing everyone and crashing into each other. Now, 199 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 1: hold on, Ben, some people might be saying, and correctly, 200 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: I thought that radio played a big part in that. 201 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: You are correct, and the X rays and UV radiation 202 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: from us c m E will disrupt the ionosphere, making 203 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: long term or excuse me, long range radio communication also 204 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: go caput. And this isn't just something that Ben and 205 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: I are making up. We've We've actually seen the effects 206 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: of a CMME before, one of the one of the 207 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 1: only major times that it actually affected life on Earth 208 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: was in eighteen fifty nine, UM, when a CMME caused 209 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: a massive magnetic fluctuation in the Earth's magnetic magnetosphere, which 210 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: then caused a couple of things to happen, Like I know, 211 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: the telegraph systems failed at the time, compasses wouldn't work, um. 212 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: And you know that doesn't sound like anything too crazy, 213 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: I guess right now, But you have to think about 214 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: the load that was on the electrical systems at the time. Um, 215 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: it probably wasn't much at all, and they probably didn't 216 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: even get to see some of the major effects that 217 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: if that would have occurred this year or in a 218 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: year when we've had our grid the way it is now, 219 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: we just haven't seen it in a long time. Yeah, 220 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: it's a it's a possible disaster that comes more disastrous 221 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: with time. Now, we do know that there are ways 222 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: for things to be shielded from the effects of a SEMI, 223 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: but we know that the vast majority things are not 224 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: because the potential of a SME of this magnitude occurring 225 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: is relatively rare. It's like winning a very terrible lottery, 226 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: worst lottery you've ever won, in the worst little and 227 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: the last that you might win. So uh, but I 228 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: just want to get back to what you're saying really fast. 229 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: That's the idea of losing communication and in a time 230 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: when you have no power. Also, um, that is one 231 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: of the great post apocalyptic scenarios where you're cut off 232 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: from everybody else. You're confused, you're scared, and you can't 233 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: you don't have a good way to get food, you 234 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: don't have a good way to get to wherever you 235 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: need to get to, and you just feel cut off. 236 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: And that's when the human the human brain goes a 237 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: little crazy, and that's when you have the road. Okay, 238 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: it should we really that's the movie that I think 239 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: about when I think about the possibilities of a massive 240 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: ceme um cannibalism, That's what I think about. Okay, yeah, 241 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: so kind of a Lord of the Flies situation. How 242 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: long would we have for before civilization collapse without the 243 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: electronic underpinnings, especially in the city. Yeah, well, the city 244 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: is always one of the worst places to be in 245 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: a natural disaster environment. And while while we are saying 246 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: some scary stuff, of course we did some due diligence 247 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: and said that the possibility of this occurring is relatively 248 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: small so far as we know. But here's the tricky part. Okay, 249 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: So let's compare to another natural disaster. This would essentially 250 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: be a natural disaster in terms of its effects. So 251 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: we know already that UH, people are having a great 252 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: deal of difficulty predicting the frequency or the strength of 253 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: natural disasters that are on Earth. Would means there much 254 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: easier to observe. UH, scientists still have a lot of 255 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: difficulty accurately predicting eruptions or earthquakes or hurricanes are rather 256 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: the path and effect of a hurricane. We have made 257 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: great strides in um in our search for better methods 258 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: of prediction here, but we have yet to be able 259 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: to in the time accurately predict these things. And the sun, 260 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: as close as it may be on a cosmic scale, 261 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: is far far beyond our abilities to reach it in 262 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: you know, in a practical scale, and especially to make 263 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: any kind of predictive models. Right. Yeah, But thankfully we 264 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: do have the Solar Dynamics Observatory now and that is 265 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: one of the best best things that to come around, 266 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: in my opinion, for a long time from a technology standpoint, 267 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: because now we really do we can almost see the 268 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: entirety of the Sun at all times. Now and before 269 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: we head out to fiddle away our free time enjoying 270 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: all the wonderful electronic goodies that or the Sun destroys 271 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: them all, before the Sun destroys us all, and before 272 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: we ask you some questions, Matt, Where can people go 273 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: to get more information about this? Okay? So this is 274 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: where I go every morning when I get into work 275 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: because I'm extremely paranoid about solar flares and there the 276 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: Sun's activity. I go to space weather dot com. It's 277 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: a fantastic source. You can look at everything from You 278 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: can get solar flare alerts from them on your on 279 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: your phone, which is pretty cool. Um. You can also 280 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,719 Speaker 1: look at the severity of and possibility of solar flares 281 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: in the next twenty for our period. You can also 282 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: go to solar ham dot net h a m dot 283 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: net and uh, that's a really cool place. It's got 284 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: some of the best s d O images up to 285 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: date stuff. And again it's got a CMME prediction model, 286 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: which is really cool. Again, it's not really accurate, but 287 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: it's fascinated look at and it makes me feel better 288 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: knowing that I check it every morning. Yeah, and one 289 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: last thing, if you want to just check out the 290 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: s d O and you can look up images from 291 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Go to s A d O 292 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: dotr G, s FC dot Nasa dot gov. It's kind 293 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: of a long one. Hope, hopefully you heard that. You 294 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: may have to rewind it, but check it out. You 295 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: can just search for s d O and NASA. We'll 296 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: do the address one more time. It's s d O 297 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: dot G, s f C dot NASA dot gov. And Hey, 298 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: while you're on a computer trying to figure out if 299 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 1: the sun will destroy us earlier than scheduled, why not 300 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: take advantage of the time to uh, let us know 301 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: what you think about a couple of questions. I'm gonna 302 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: fire a couple off here. Uh. First, and my favorite 303 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: question here, what would you do if you woke up 304 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: one day and none of the electronics worked? Matt, Do 305 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: you have a question? Yeah? I do. Uh. If let's 306 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: say you've gotten alert on your phone that there's an 307 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: imminent coronal mass ejection that's there it's thought to be 308 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: able to take out all of the electricity, and you 309 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: only have let's say an hour or two hours before 310 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: it hits. What do you do? What's the first thing 311 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: you do? I don't know, man, I I don't want 312 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: to give my answer away. We'll talk about this later. 313 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: Oh I'm not giving my answer away, okay. But what 314 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: I would love to give weight is the ways that 315 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: you can contact us. Matt, you and I are online 316 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: all the time, so that people can write to us 317 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: at Facebook and Twitter, where we are conspiracy stuff. You 318 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: guys were on the internet in so many places I 319 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: hesitate to list them all. You can find our videos 320 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: on test tube and YouTube. But if you want to 321 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: cut past all the social media stuff and write to 322 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: us directly to tell us what your plan is in 323 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: the event of a solar flare, we would love to 324 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: hear it. And if you ask, will even maybe tell 325 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: you our plans. I'm not going to volunteer, you met, 326 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: but I'm not adverse to telling someone if they ask 327 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 1: via email, I can go really general. Okay, So go ahead, 328 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: and if you want to know what we would do, 329 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: and if you want to tell us what you would do, 330 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: send us an email. 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