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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Migalot on 22 May 2025, 20:23:54
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These have always fascinated me. A big one could reap havoc and is one reason (of many!) why I say we should keep cash and not rely on everything digital.
Anyway, I just received this email:
More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it happened again today. Spoiler alert: It could.
The record-strong storm is described in the upcoming July 2025 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. It occurred in 12,350 BC and is classified as a "Miyake Event."
Miyake Events are solar storms that make the Carrington Event of 1859 look puny.
:o :o
Read more at www.SpaceWeather.com (http://www.SpaceWeather.com)
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If you could find a 14,000 year old tree in the first place, it wouldn't be able to remember what the weather was like 5 minutes ago, let alone prehistoric solar storms! ;D
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If you could find a 14,000 year old tree in the first place, it wouldn't be able to remember what the weather was like 5 minutes ago, let alone prehistoric solar storms! ;D
Leave it ;D
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The Miyake Event of 12,350 BC is especially intriguing. It appears as a carbon-14 spike in Scots Pine trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France, with a matching beryllium-10 spike in Greenland ice cores. The event was global and, based on the size of the spikes, very big.
So, yes, they did find such an old tree.
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Oh God now we have to worry about Cosmic Climate Change! ;D
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Oh God now we have to worry about Cosmic Climate Change! ;D
Nothing to with climate. My concern is our over-reliance on microchip technology.
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No, you're right. If a solar storm did wipe us out however they'd never admit it was cosmic rays, they'd blame it on climate change and put up taxes! ::)
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It's the gen-z way. It isn't newsworthy unless you can find a climate change angle somehow. ;)
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Or Brexit, or Trump. :D