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Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:39 am
by kmcook
Article on the Australian Broadcasting Commission website 26 Oct 22.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /101563738
Key points:
Earth has been hit by at least six extreme radiation events over the past 10,000 years, according to data in tree rings
These events, known as Miyake events, were thought to be caused by solar storms
But the most comprehensive study to date suggests not all these extreme events fit the picture and may be caused by unknown solar or galactic phenomena
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:56 pm
by BeAChooser
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting and very scary. Another reason to prep. Especially when the scientist involved says ""It's really important that we resolve this question because the Carrington Event was 100 times smaller in terms of radiation output than these Miyake events." As has been pointed out, if the Carrington Event were to happen today, it would crash most of our communications. Well, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing?
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 7:28 pm
by Roy
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 stringing of wire all over the lands will be receptive to electric disruption. Would we recover ? Yes. Chaos seems to be the human condition. History is the story of constant war.
Would Faraday cages be effective? Will fiber optic lines be affected? Enquiring minds want to know.
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:40 pm
by BeAChooser
This is the most comprehensive study ever made of these events and the big result is a big shrug; we don't know what's going on.
But I do agree …
If we had an event like that, even on the short scale … we'd be thrown into chaos.
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:15 pm
by nick c
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
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:45 pm
by Roy
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.
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:27 am
by nick c
If the Sun is externally powered as per Juergens and the Electric Universe, then events such as these are largely unpredictable since we do not know too much if anything about the ambient interstellar electrical environment through which the Sun is traveling.
There are no guarantees about anything, that has to do with solar activity.
Re: Radiation burst hit Earth 7500 years ago...
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:58 am
by Maol
Roy wrote: ↑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.
Perhaps there is confusion about the date ?? The location of the path of this annular solar eclipse in 1831 seems appropriate for General Thomas or family members to have witnessed it. If they were unaware that was what they were seeing how else could they describe it?
