by Roy » Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:45 pm
nick c wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:15 pm
Yes, thanks. I had often wondered about previous Carrington events. There was some mention about something similar being the triggering sign for Nat Turner’s slave rebellion (I read about it in General George Meade’s biography - his family had to hide in the swamps to escape slaughter).
The Carrington Event in 1859 created havoc with telegraph communications. That type of solar flare event today would have the potential to create great chaos or worse.
https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect- ... gton-event
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/ ... rflare.htm
I read again Benson Bobrick’s book about General Thomas (sorry, I above talked about Meade by mistake) . Here is the citation-
“…August 13, 1831…residents awoke that morning to a sun that seemed to be in the last stages of extinction. As it dimmed remarkably, it grew so pale that ‘it could be looked at directly’. Then changing hues, it went from green to blue to white. Finally a black spot appeared on its surface ‘like a black hand’…”
This was 14 years prior to the US having telegraph wires strung all about. As mentioned in the lead article, a Miyake event would be hundreds of times as devastating as a Carrington event.
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[quote]Yes, thanks. I had often wondered about previous Carrington events. There was some mention about something similar being the triggering sign for Nat Turner’s slave rebellion (I read about it in General George Meade’s biography - his family had to hide in the swamps to escape slaughter).
[/quote]The Carrington Event in 1859 created havoc with telegraph communications. That type of solar flare event today would have the potential to create great chaos or worse.
https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/061115stellarflare.htm
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I read again Benson Bobrick’s book about General Thomas (sorry, I above talked about Meade by mistake) . Here is the citation-
“…August 13, 1831…residents awoke that morning to a sun that seemed to be in the last stages of extinction. As it dimmed remarkably, it grew so pale that ‘it could be looked at directly’. Then changing hues, it went from green to blue to white. Finally a black spot appeared on its surface ‘like a black hand’…”
This was 14 years prior to the US having telegraph wires strung all about. As mentioned in the lead article, a Miyake event would be hundreds of times as devastating as a Carrington event.