Episode 3: Carrington Event

 In this episode we look back to events in 1859 and the inevitability of  those events happening again (possibly  soon).

Episode Transcript

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A recent study, who knows how much they spent on these things.
They're going to call it a study, right? At a Stanford University dated February
20th. So really, this was just this week.
What they did, they looked at 1,500 scans of the human brain using AI.
And guess what they found out? With 90% accuracy. Wait for it, drum roll. Yes.

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Women's and men's brains are different. now
this is going to fall into the gigantic are you kidding
me category how many couples right now are
thinking you know a couple years into marriage we knew this
right away we don't need a study to prove this so in
case some of you people were wondering february 20th at least stanford university

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was smart enough not to do this on say like february 10th imagine if they put
this out prior to valentine's day how much bickering would have gone on you.
Music.
Know the candy Candy Lobby, the Flower Lobby,
Big Flower and Candy would have been all over them.
Stanford, you would have got hammered. So give them some credit, folks.
They held off the February 20th to give this landmark trial.

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So I'm hoping, going forward, maybe they'll look at, are men's and women's hearing any different?
Music.
Stanford, right now, cut me a check. I could save you a lot of money.
The answer to that question is yes, with a big why.
How do i know this dieting what is
dieting you have to do with hearing yeah i'm gonna tell you why i'll

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tell you what happened so how many of you out there had to
lose some winter pounds i'm one of them after the holidays
january rolls around let's go on a diet so my wife and i both did it mostly
me okay now you're out there you know i am my wife goes are you sneaking are
you cheating no no no no i'm really sticking to the night of course she knows i'm not so i look Look,

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she could be four rooms away. And actually, I tried this out.
I look in there. Oh, she's four rooms away.
Music.
I look in there. Oh, she's looking at a movie. She's not going to pay attention
to me. So I sneak over, open the fridge.
Soon as I open it up, what are you doing?
Are you in the refrigerator? I'm like, what? Doing? What do you mean?

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I'm not doing anything. Are you in the refrigerator? No.
I'm looking right at the light refrigerator, all the shelves.
No. No, no, I'm not, no, no, I'm not, nope, not at all, not doing anything.
So, unbelievable sense of hearing, right? Now it comes to me,
the male part of the equation.
There could be a playoff football game on. She could be in there opening up

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Fritos, potato chips, ruffling those bags. She could be laughing.
Music.
Men's and women's hearing, abso-positively, they are different, folks.

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The turtle by the name of Bert. And Bert the turtle was very alert.
When danger threatened him, he never got hurt. He knew just what to do.
He's got... Vancouver.
Okay, so let's stay with the whole scientific agenda.
What happened this week? this was a major

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faux pas with carriers or
cell phone carriers verizon at&t they
all reported an average for a couple hours right
couple hours everybody freaked out what's going on i don't have cell phone service
i panic so i'm looking at this event and saying wow people really don't know
what's going on out there let's turn the clock back about 150 years the date september 2nd.

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1859 what happened that day something known
as the carrington event some of
you might have heard about it it's out there but a lot
of people haven't so that's why i'm going to bring it up on this show what happened
on september 1st two scientists independently saw a solar outburst on the sun

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one was named richard carrington the other was named was richard hodgson so
you know who was the favorite son of the British Royal Museum and the Academy.
Carrington got top billing. What did Hodgson get? He got the shaft. He didn't get anything.
They both saw it independently though. This was a massive CME,
which stands for Chronal Mass Ejection.

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I mean, what kind of a name? Why don't they call it like a solar burst?
But that's the name they gave it.
I think of mass ejection. I'm thinking, sounds like something that happens at
a Philadelphia-Philly game.
Maybe the Eagles game when they shut up the bureau for the fourth quarter and
they have to mass eject all these fans.
That's what I'm thinking in my head. But no, this stands for coronial mass ejection. What happened?
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They looked at this event on September 1st. They observed this.
It took about 17 and a half hours for this to reach to Earth.
Now, that's pretty fast.
Most of these CMEs take about one to four days. So you may hear about an event, the surface of the sun.
Four days later, it affects our climate. It affects the satellites usually it's

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no big deal this was a huge deal this was one of the biggest they say in history
do they know probably not there were a lot of others before.
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Come September 2nd, telegraph operators, their lines are catching on fire.
So what they did naturally was, well, disconnect them from the batteries.
These batteries weren't like nine volt batteries or car batteries.
These things were huge, massive batteries. So they disconnected the lines and
guess what happened? Nothing.
They found out that they could still transmit transmit

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their telegraphs from boston
to portland maine by using nothing there
was no electrical source it was zip zero nada
they were transmitting these just by
the electricity that was in the air so that's
one thing about the lines you have the telegraph.
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Lines the batteries they disconnected them still working there

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were other things that happened people down in cuba yes
cuba saw the aurora borealis down
in cuba so auroras usually don't go
past you know canada way down in cuba so this was a massive worldwide event
it had a lot of effects power wise they said this was equivalent to 93 billion

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with ab atomic bombs i can't even fathom that that kind of power.
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That's off the charts. I have no idea.
So were there others in history? Yeah, there were. There were others.
This wasn't a standalone event.
They went back and they looked at tree rings using carbon-14 dating.
They found tree rings anomalies back in the year 744.

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933, 1128, and most recently around 1652.
They took this data. They said, you know, there were other
events so these cme outbursts
of this magnitude happen about every 150
200 years what does that mean
it's not if folks if is out of the equation it is when cmes will happen again

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what we have with earth now which is somewhat unique our magnetic field by everyone
you ask scientific equations is weakening.
They say down by about 25%. Why is that significant?
The magnetic field around the Earth shields us from these events.
Now, this is not a solar flare. Solar flare is just a little pop in the basket,

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and it's down here in eight minutes, no big deal.
A CME is massive. That is going to have repercussions.
We just missed one in 2012.
They looked at the power of this event and it would have dwarfed the Carrington event.
Why didn't anyone hear about it? The Earth's position.
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They're wearing electronics like they are now. They had telegraph lines. What's caught on fire?
Now, you look at all our circuitry today, everything is circuits.
Everything's an electrical board. Everything's electrical components.
Guess what happens to those when this event happens?
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That's right. They get fried.
What will that mean? And the best equation, even the ones who are just,

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you know, you're Pollyannas.
Oh, yeah, it'll happen, but in a week or two, we'll be back on. No problem. them.
Those are the ones with that go-to positive attitude.
The other folks are saying, this could be months.
Months. Some say years. Let's say it's somewhere in the middle.
Let's say it takes three weeks, maybe six weeks. Can you imagine?

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Well, everyone freaked out. You don't have to imagine you were there this week.
Cell service was out for hours. What happened? Take that and put it out by weeks. Now, this is not cell.
Music.

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All these gadgets are going to get fried. There is a way to help out.
You can build something called a Faraday cage.
A Faraday cage, well, not a bad idea. You take chicken wire,
you want to ground the thing to the ground, and you put your devices in there.
So I'm thinking, well, not a bad idea.
You know, if it happens, let's put something in this Faraday cage.

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Why not? What could it hurt?
And then I thought, well, so I have a cell phone, and my cell phone still works,
but no one else is working.
So what's the point? you know i don't see it
so that's the carrington event remember people it
is not if if is out of
the equation it is when so you know
just a thought stick it in your ear somewhere put it back your head it's gonna

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come i don't know when but it'll come so look at the show let's end it on something
fun huh that was kind of that dismal but you know you gotta be aware of these
things let's look at People ask me, when are you going to have a show on UFOs?
Probably the answer is never. Why is that?
UFOs bore me. I don't know what it is. They just bore me. Now,

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you know, they don't have UFO name anymore. They even lost their name.
The boys in the Pentagon, Bob, some of your friends, I'm sure,
decided to say, nah, we don't like UFOs anymore. We want to call it UAPs.
Why UAPs? I don't know. I looked up what it stands for.
Unidentified anomalous phenomena that's not

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going to catch on what are you people thinking tell your
boys down there in the bunker no this is not going to catch on stay with ufos
just abandon it so why do ufos bore me and they do they just bore me first off
everyone has a cell phone right have you seen good images of these things i
haven't i mean everyone has a cell phone. Come on, really?

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Actually, what bothers me the most is these are supposed to be intelligent beings
from planets, universes, galaxies far, far away, right?
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They travel to all galaxies, and they decide to crash here on Earth, right?

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I'm saying, maybe it's an engineering problem. So you're in the galaxy.
You're zipping along, you and your buddies. Maybe you're out for a family ride.
And someone says, hey, Zurn, what's wrong? I don't know. She's not sounding
right. I'm going to pull her over on that planet there.
She's not. Let me pull off and give it a look, see what's going on. Oh, Zurn pulls over.

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Yeah, we're stuck. We're not going anywhere. You go in the glove box and you
say, oh, man, just wouldn't you know it, we're 93 trillion miles out of warranty.
That's unbelievable. We're stuck here for a while. So they have engineering
problems. Why does it only happen here?
The other thought I have is maybe they have bad pilots. You know,

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you're cruising the whole universe.
You're zipping around, you and your buddies. All of a sudden,
say, hey, look at that. Look at that big red one over there. That's real pretty.
Oh, look out. Whoa, holy cow. no, I didn't see that one coming,
slam-o, right into the Earth.
Maybe they have bad pilots. Can you imagine the guy back home?
Imagine it's a couple of teenagers running around from the galaxy somewhere,

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and the father hears it, and he goes, that is the fourth planet he's crashing
to this month. That's it. He's grounded. He's done.
So I'm thinking, why are they always crashing?
If they're so advanced, with all these advanced ships, no, they've got to crash
on Earth, like out there in the desert.
You know, Arizona, wherever Nevada, 1947 Oh, crash UFO Why are they crashing?

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Anyone stop to look at that? I do I think of these things all the time I don't
know why, that's what I do Alright, so listen folks, that's the show This week,
have a good one, Bob Take it easy, remember, tell your boys UAP, it ain't catching on.