THE CARRINGTON EVENT: THE SOLAR STORM THAT COULD END MODERN CIVILIZATION
Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Carrington Event — the 1859 solar storm so powerful that telegraph offices caught fire and the Northern Lights were visible in Cuba, and the 2012 solar ejection of comparable size that missed the earth by nine days.
This episode covers the astronomy and physics of coronal mass ejections, the specific mechanisms by which a major solar storm would destroy modern power grids, GPS systems, and communications infrastructure, and the uncomfortable question of why, despite knowing all of this, civilization…
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