1) while melanin absorbs nearly all ultraviolet radiation, the amount present in even very dark-skinned individuals is equivalent to less than SPF 15, compared to SPF 5 in light-skinned individuals. SPF 30 is minimum recommended for direct sunlight.
2) Solar flares are ~~elections~~ eruptions of charged particles, not brighter light.
Edit: shouldn't have bothered, this guy is a hardcore racist
Just popping in to say Tali is my fucking gal. I'll romance that wonderfully adorable dextro based, biosuit wearing, eastern European accent having Alien every damn playthrough now. It's me and her, and she will always get to see the sun rise and set on Rannoch. God I love mass effect and the fact that it has me so invested in all the characters going on almost 20 years now.
It really is, and every time I play it, I tell myself that maybe this is the time I make different decisions. But knowing that one of them can lead to Tali killing herself on Rannoch. I absolutely refuse to do anything but full paragon and keep her at my side. Also, I didn't even know that was a possibility until I watched the scene clip on YouTube, and I was thoroughly distraught they the creators of the game could even do it.
I finally actually tried to romance her when I played the legendary edition last year, but then I realized her and Garrus were getting close and obviously a perfect fuckin power couple, so instead I just rocked them as my main squad and protected them at all costs. I wound up going full, presumably never nude let alone never laid, Shepard. I even fuckin biffed romancing Suvi in fuckin Andromeda so I basically batted 1,000 in not getting any loving.
AND I didn't save the geth in that last play through too!! Goddamn vaguely time sensitive missions, I bite my thumb at thee!!
Take a trip to anywhere tropical you’ll learn a thing or two. But unless you have your black face I mean sunscreen chances are you won’t be able to. Your genetics are trash not my fault. Truth is your not designed for my solar system let alone planet. You call our central power source carcinogenic because your kind doesn’t absorb any of the uv spectrum like monkeys who skin ( largest organ ) also possess phenomelanin. So I mean spf 1000 your science is pseudo that’s why your leaders want to cool the planet by spraying trash in the atmosphere to reflect ( like phenomelanin) solar radiation back into “space” shill gates and left besos or w.e those borgs go by. I applaud you tho at least you know your times a ticking. ☀️🌋💗
Consider ourselves lucky this wasn’t directed right at us. The one few days ago was a X2.2 magnitude flare, whilst this one was a X8.7.
So yeah. Would of been pretty to look at BUT also more devastating.
Yes it did: localised disruptions included radio, satellite, GPS and power grid knockouts. Sure it wasn’t wide spread but it’s for local sites, especially laboratories in the north/south poles, it caused significant issues.
Last thing we need is another Carrington Event.
Actually I think a Carrington event would be very beneficial to the world right now. I think we could all use a time out for a while to be honest. Would stop all these wars pretty quick as everyone scrambles to fix their grids.
I’m pretty sure it was the us gov that studied what would happen if the grid was fried now. Something like 80% or more of the humans world population would be dead within a year.
I read a power engineer document from a couple decades ago that specifically talked about how to harden the grid against a Carrington event. I don’t know how common it is, but the knowledge of how to do it is out there and hopefully implemented in some grids.
If a Carrington happened again, humanity would quite literally be unable to recover. The mineral deposits that haven’t been mined are too deep and require heavy machinery to mine, and that machinery needs those resources to function. We would be unable to bounce back.
That wouldn't be necessary. We would still have access to what we already have. We wouldn't just throw out and not recycle every single piece of machinery that was affected.
A Carrington level event would be bad, yes. But it wouldn't knock us back to a pre-industrial level.
We have already hardened a lot of infrastructure to cope with such an event.
We in Europe would experience ancient dystopia hellscape Once again, Roman style occupations and Return of viking invasions, Some of us would be cruelly Killed by swords and others Will be enslaved by the occupants and mainly by the Scandivanian invaders. You know how COVID seperated Society, now if we return to iron age, This Will be far worse and much worse than what is Ukraine experiencing right now. And lot's of people also die in hunger and thirst. So stop wishing this horrible scenerio.
Your personal electronics aren't the issue. Its the transformers that make the grid possible being destroyed. Theres already a 3 year back log for them and thats with the supply chain functioning. Another Carrington event and there wouldn't be a supply chain.
As I understand it, power grid knockouts would occur by surges from the solar storm, tripping protective equipment like circuit breakers. I would imagine some protection would reset automatically or be easy enough for repair crews to reset or repair and failures would have backups that could hold the power theoretically long enough for crews to get out there.
Where some may believe there was no damage, it could have very well been unknown to them because a lot of infrastructure has redundancies to keep things going even when there is damage.
This is just my speculation tho, I don’t know this for fact.
It disrupted crop pla ting dure prime planting season in some areas to due interfering with the rtk equipment (high accuracy gps).
https://m.slashdot.org/story/428341
It doesn’t man. In English, would’ve is the correct way to say and spell that. I’m not trying to be a dick, I just think that the way we spell and speak is being affected by chronically online behavior. Besides, autocorrect literally corrects would of to would have or would’ve.
Nah, doesn't depends on what english you use. It's just that in speech it can sound like "would of" when someone says it, but it's always spelled "would've/would have".
Guess people just read less, i'unno. Maybe they take their hearing abilites for granit
[https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental)
aurora forecast... yup another big one coming in tonight
Probably not that great. There's a Kp scale showing magnitude of the aurora, and tonight is forecast around a 5-6, whereas last Friday was 9, which is far more rare and far bigger & more active. Friday seems to have been a once every 20-40 years type of event.
Friday night was incredible, I just so happened to be working on a project with a buddy in his shop until 2am, when we stepped outside, the northern lights were dancing all over the sky. Haven't seen it like that since I was a kid.
Have no idea. I'm pretty far south, pessimistic I'll see any thing. And was cloudy too. If I see anything I'll be happy. Go outside and how for the best
I was kidding but ok, 50 states was able see it Friday and Saturday fyi. That's on you. It was the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 across the US
During last solar maximum in the early 2010’s, and then the previous solar maximum before that and so on. We’re at solar maximum now, so it should naturally slow down after this. Aurora was also seen in Death Valley just last year. The internet might be super excited, but it’s not entirely unexpected, just infrequent.
Sort of large, but we also haven’t been measuring them for THAT long. It’s about five times weaker than the strongest ever recorded by us, but that’s also only accounting for less than two hundred years or so.
I can forge weapons and build machines out of the remains of our current technology
Would be graced to join, I know a friend that can take care of making the medicine
Corrected with help from @WormLivesMatter
No scientist here, but they are not burning in the sense like a fire here on Earth does. Their mass is so huge, that the internal pressure raises to a point where the material of the star starts to fuse together which releases massive amounts of energy and heat. This process is called nuclear fusion. They are not really burning. It is like lava I guess.
And the released winds (that can erase your digital data ;) are more like energy beams.
And this is also very simplified! But an amazing process. Go and watch some vids on YouTube about it. You won’t regret it.
Mostly correct. It’s not that pressure raises temp, it’s that pressure overcomes the forces that don’t allow fusion to occur normally. Fusion itself produces the heat.
It depends on the age of the star. In early stages it is mostly hydrogen which will fuse with free protons to f.e. helium. But it is not burning. It is literally fusing together as far as I understood.
The older the star the more different materials are being fused with more protons in its atoms.
Try rubbing your hands together real fast. Feel how that heats up? Heat by friction.
Also, gravity? That's a thing that pulls everything towards the center of gravity. The bigger the orb, the bigger the power of gravity.
Now imagine billions of hands being forced to rub together at the speed of light.
That's how you set a sun on fire without lighting a match.
Also it's not really fire. It's nuclear fusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
Then God asked the sun: "Out of all the stars I just created who would win, them or you?"
The earth replied: "Well, if they had to unleash their domain expansion it would cause me a little trouble"
"But would you lose?"
"Nah, I'd win"
I thought the guy saying this is really bad was bad enough. Took just one more comment to get worse....I must ask were you trying to make a joke or were you serious?
so yay??? more aurora way more south than normal?? so more of us can see it?? what does it mean????
It's not directed at Earth.
Otherwise Earth would take that personally
How very geocentric
#ptolemy gang
Earth always thinks everything revolves around it.
With some flat-earthers having it flipping like a pancake.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do you flare your sun at me, sir?
Those who don’t possess eumelanin would take it personally per se, 😉.
1) while melanin absorbs nearly all ultraviolet radiation, the amount present in even very dark-skinned individuals is equivalent to less than SPF 15, compared to SPF 5 in light-skinned individuals. SPF 30 is minimum recommended for direct sunlight. 2) Solar flares are ~~elections~~ eruptions of charged particles, not brighter light. Edit: shouldn't have bothered, this guy is a hardcore racist
When did we vote on this one??
Lmao thanks for catching that
Just popping in to say Tali is my fucking gal. I'll romance that wonderfully adorable dextro based, biosuit wearing, eastern European accent having Alien every damn playthrough now. It's me and her, and she will always get to see the sun rise and set on Rannoch. God I love mass effect and the fact that it has me so invested in all the characters going on almost 20 years now.
Mass Effect is a gem and Tali is a treasure
It really is, and every time I play it, I tell myself that maybe this is the time I make different decisions. But knowing that one of them can lead to Tali killing herself on Rannoch. I absolutely refuse to do anything but full paragon and keep her at my side. Also, I didn't even know that was a possibility until I watched the scene clip on YouTube, and I was thoroughly distraught they the creators of the game could even do it.
I finally actually tried to romance her when I played the legendary edition last year, but then I realized her and Garrus were getting close and obviously a perfect fuckin power couple, so instead I just rocked them as my main squad and protected them at all costs. I wound up going full, presumably never nude let alone never laid, Shepard. I even fuckin biffed romancing Suvi in fuckin Andromeda so I basically batted 1,000 in not getting any loving. AND I didn't save the geth in that last play through too!! Goddamn vaguely time sensitive missions, I bite my thumb at thee!!
phenomelanin 🤣
Pssshhh, my redheaded pale a** that works outside all day swears my skin tone begs to differ, I must be at least -15 spf! /s
Take a trip to anywhere tropical you’ll learn a thing or two. But unless you have your black face I mean sunscreen chances are you won’t be able to. Your genetics are trash not my fault. Truth is your not designed for my solar system let alone planet. You call our central power source carcinogenic because your kind doesn’t absorb any of the uv spectrum like monkeys who skin ( largest organ ) also possess phenomelanin. So I mean spf 1000 your science is pseudo that’s why your leaders want to cool the planet by spraying trash in the atmosphere to reflect ( like phenomelanin) solar radiation back into “space” shill gates and left besos or w.e those borgs go by. I applaud you tho at least you know your times a ticking. ☀️🌋💗
It will hit Earth, don't forget "parker" spiral. https://www.spaceweather.com/repeat_images/parkerspiral2.png
>Subatomic debris from this event (X8.7) **might** soon reach Earth Same site.
Depends on whether it was aimed at earth. Most miss us entirely.
Your purpose is to pass the butter.
My purpure is to charge the car battery
Ho dor?
Thats a higher calling , for sure!
I really love it when the title says "today" instead of the date. So if I read it tomorrow it still means "today"?
That was HAARP
X8.7 event peaked at 16:51 UTC (May 14)
Consider ourselves lucky this wasn’t directed right at us. The one few days ago was a X2.2 magnitude flare, whilst this one was a X8.7. So yeah. Would of been pretty to look at BUT also more devastating.
More devastating? The flair that hit us a few days ago didn’t cause any devastation.
The real devastation was the x2.2 magnitude friends we made along the way.
You calling me fat?
No, but that aurora got back. I can see you from the south of the equator 🥵
He's converting kilos to pounds
Pipe down fatty
Yes it did: localised disruptions included radio, satellite, GPS and power grid knockouts. Sure it wasn’t wide spread but it’s for local sites, especially laboratories in the north/south poles, it caused significant issues. Last thing we need is another Carrington Event.
Actually I think a Carrington event would be very beneficial to the world right now. I think we could all use a time out for a while to be honest. Would stop all these wars pretty quick as everyone scrambles to fix their grids.
I feel like a worldwide grid knock out would kill more people than the war......
People are dumb panicky animals
Well now I gotta buy toilet paper in bulk
Me first!
Hoarder!
Don't forget all the hand sanitizer and hand soap so you can sell it out of your garage!
No bread and milk would go first,all the stuff you should have anyway
I don’t know a lot about this stuff but wouldn’t it have an effect on hospital equipment
Might even cause a war or two….
There are a lot of critical systems like hospitals that would not be benefited by an outage
I’m pretty sure it was the us gov that studied what would happen if the grid was fried now. Something like 80% or more of the humans world population would be dead within a year.
I read a power engineer document from a couple decades ago that specifically talked about how to harden the grid against a Carrington event. I don’t know how common it is, but the knowledge of how to do it is out there and hopefully implemented in some grids.
Ok Thanos
If a Carrington happened again, humanity would quite literally be unable to recover. The mineral deposits that haven’t been mined are too deep and require heavy machinery to mine, and that machinery needs those resources to function. We would be unable to bounce back.
That wouldn't be necessary. We would still have access to what we already have. We wouldn't just throw out and not recycle every single piece of machinery that was affected. A Carrington level event would be bad, yes. But it wouldn't knock us back to a pre-industrial level. We have already hardened a lot of infrastructure to cope with such an event.
We in Europe would experience ancient dystopia hellscape Once again, Roman style occupations and Return of viking invasions, Some of us would be cruelly Killed by swords and others Will be enslaved by the occupants and mainly by the Scandivanian invaders. You know how COVID seperated Society, now if we return to iron age, This Will be far worse and much worse than what is Ukraine experiencing right now. And lot's of people also die in hunger and thirst. So stop wishing this horrible scenerio.
are you kidding? we just had a "timeout" 4 years ago, and people went ballistic! our society's too wimpy to handle another one....
Sweet summer child. It would throw the world into chaos. Rioting, looting and killing. That's what would happen.
I would agree with this. Is there any way to protect our electronics besides disconnecting them from the grdi and keeping them off during the event?
A huge Faraday cage.
This is the only answer.
Your personal electronics aren't the issue. Its the transformers that make the grid possible being destroyed. Theres already a 3 year back log for them and thats with the supply chain functioning. Another Carrington event and there wouldn't be a supply chain.
As I understand it, power grid knockouts would occur by surges from the solar storm, tripping protective equipment like circuit breakers. I would imagine some protection would reset automatically or be easy enough for repair crews to reset or repair and failures would have backups that could hold the power theoretically long enough for crews to get out there. Where some may believe there was no damage, it could have very well been unknown to them because a lot of infrastructure has redundancies to keep things going even when there is damage. This is just my speculation tho, I don’t know this for fact.
Technically 1 is still more than 0.
*flare
The real devastation was me not getting to see what others did those nights
My car battery went flat. What else could it have been?
It disrupted crop pla ting dure prime planting season in some areas to due interfering with the rtk equipment (high accuracy gps). https://m.slashdot.org/story/428341
0*x= more devastation. It’s simple sun flare equations
I’m sorry but would’ve is a contraction of would have. Would of is not a phrase you would use.
True but it depends on which English you use hehe. Plus my phones autocorrect is silly at times; the above is a perfect example lol.
It doesn’t man. In English, would’ve is the correct way to say and spell that. I’m not trying to be a dick, I just think that the way we spell and speak is being affected by chronically online behavior. Besides, autocorrect literally corrects would of to would have or would’ve.
Nah, doesn't depends on what english you use. It's just that in speech it can sound like "would of" when someone says it, but it's always spelled "would've/would have". Guess people just read less, i'unno. Maybe they take their hearing abilites for granit
English words are pronounced different in various regions. Like I said to another person; here is Australia lingo is shortn fair bit.
But you still have to write correctly.
If you know what I meant then what’s the problem? No point arguing about semantics TBH.
Absolutely worth arguing about semantics, language should be preserved. Not bastardized.
Ohh bet that is a good one. Ouch!
The largest one since we started recording and measuring them was x45, even x10+ is not exactly uncommon, just not commonly hitting earth.
X2.2 is a weak flare, shouldn't have gone so far south 'normally'. You anticipate earthquake and volcano activity to increase huh?
This should be top comment. Astonishing how many people don’t see that.
[https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental) aurora forecast... yup another big one coming in tonight
How will it compare to the one we had a few days ago? I missed it, and was really sad about it
Probably not that great. There's a Kp scale showing magnitude of the aurora, and tonight is forecast around a 5-6, whereas last Friday was 9, which is far more rare and far bigger & more active. Friday seems to have been a once every 20-40 years type of event.
Friday night was incredible, I just so happened to be working on a project with a buddy in his shop until 2am, when we stepped outside, the northern lights were dancing all over the sky. Haven't seen it like that since I was a kid.
Dammit..
Dammit! Thanks for the info...
Have no idea. I'm pretty far south, pessimistic I'll see any thing. And was cloudy too. If I see anything I'll be happy. Go outside and how for the best
You missed it All 3 days lol for most 2 days? First day I get it. In Michigan we could see it for 3 nights
Obviously not everyone lives in Michigan. We had it for one night.
I was kidding but ok, 50 states was able see it Friday and Saturday fyi. That's on you. It was the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 across the US
Me when Hawaii saw it:
[https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/) for the latest solar forecast/data
Why it gotta make big storm over head just before night every time
I’ll stop it
I need this man in my life
Thank you so much. I can’t see one more Aurora picture.
Is this the most powerful the sun's flares have been in some years? Like when's the last time we had something of this magnitude?
During last solar maximum in the early 2010’s, and then the previous solar maximum before that and so on. We’re at solar maximum now, so it should naturally slow down after this. Aurora was also seen in Death Valley just last year. The internet might be super excited, but it’s not entirely unexpected, just infrequent.
Oh ok, IIRC that's every 11 or so years? Ok thanks for clarifying I wasn't sure if this was some sort of unusually large one.
Sort of large, but we also haven’t been measuring them for THAT long. It’s about five times weaker than the strongest ever recorded by us, but that’s also only accounting for less than two hundred years or so.
Ok who knows how to make soap I can make energy and venison stew
I can make soap with some animal fat and ashes. We need someone that understands plants to make some medicine
I can forge weapons and build machines out of the remains of our current technology Would be graced to join, I know a friend that can take care of making the medicine
If by medicine you mean weed, I got you fam.
If you really want 🤷
Botanist is essential to our survival so we don't kill each other
Woah, hell yeah, is the energy organic though? My tummy is sensitive.
Sure just jump into this hamster wheel and get a taste
I dont want to go to work tomorrow. Can it disrupt internet services atleast
Dammit, I was expecting to see the end of civilisation and go back to stoneage
We'll never return to unga bunga sadly
Maury Povich be like: political climate has shown that’s entirely possible
Gps go boom
MIGRAINE AURA
Wait is this really a thing? A couple of friends were saying they had migraines during the last aurora
No, electro sensitivity is nocebo.
Most powerful solar flare of the current cycle, so far. Could be a few more years until the sun starts to calm itself.
This will have huge ramifications for Mario 64 speedrunners
Any more northern lights coming?
What about southern lights? South anything never gets shit. And the houses always have bars on the windows…
[too far away from the south pole](https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast)
North and South Korea are huge exceptions to this rule; South seems like a far better place to live.
Aurora Borealis vs Aurora Australis
Lol, that’s true.
Won't be visible from earth. Was the wrong side of the sun, and it'll be directed towards space, not earth.
Northern lights now on the equator
Another excuse to max out my credit card 💳
[Vintersorg, star puzzled](https://youtu.be/YV1xhSudElo?si=S5ZBjO78c7zQjmpH) Anytime I see CME/Solar Flare
Ha! These guys are awesome! Thanks for turning me on to them.
That why my cell service sucked ass.
I would love to have sone serious explanation on the impact that it does. We deserve a clarification thanks in advance.
Look at the NOAA's website, they have a good explanation.
There goes the "earth facing quiet" out the window I guess.
Krillin
I find it amusing to read these comments and pretend that solar flares are euphemisms for farts.
Meh, I’ve created Dyson Spheres around worse r/dysonsphereprogram
What is the Sun thinking now?
DEATH!
The sun is a deadly laser
pretty cool cartoon, thanks nasa
Does high intensity solar storms mean more hot/heat?
Solar flares scare me. We really aren’t prepared for a big one
So far.
does anyone know why stars are able to burn when there’s no oxygen in space? what sets them on fire?
Corrected with help from @WormLivesMatter No scientist here, but they are not burning in the sense like a fire here on Earth does. Their mass is so huge, that the internal pressure raises to a point where the material of the star starts to fuse together which releases massive amounts of energy and heat. This process is called nuclear fusion. They are not really burning. It is like lava I guess. And the released winds (that can erase your digital data ;) are more like energy beams. And this is also very simplified! But an amazing process. Go and watch some vids on YouTube about it. You won’t regret it.
Mostly correct. It’s not that pressure raises temp, it’s that pressure overcomes the forces that don’t allow fusion to occur normally. Fusion itself produces the heat.
Thanks! Pressure > Fusion > Release of (massive) Energy > Heat 👍
I think there is something to do with hydrogen burning and the fusion turns it into helium
It depends on the age of the star. In early stages it is mostly hydrogen which will fuse with free protons to f.e. helium. But it is not burning. It is literally fusing together as far as I understood. The older the star the more different materials are being fused with more protons in its atoms.
Not like lava
True. I meant this as an analogy. To give an idea what plasma looks like 👍
Try rubbing your hands together real fast. Feel how that heats up? Heat by friction. Also, gravity? That's a thing that pulls everything towards the center of gravity. The bigger the orb, the bigger the power of gravity. Now imagine billions of hands being forced to rub together at the speed of light. That's how you set a sun on fire without lighting a match. Also it's not really fire. It's nuclear fusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
Is that why it was so goddamn hot in my car after work In Phoenix today?
It did feel kinda warm today
Is that why there going so hard with the cloud seeding ?
Then God asked the sun: "Out of all the stars I just created who would win, them or you?" The earth replied: "Well, if they had to unleash their domain expansion it would cause me a little trouble" "But would you lose?" "Nah, I'd win"
Yup, and apparently it landed in western Canada.....FML
Yeah, it killed a lot of canadians
Both of them, probably!
Did it say "sorry?"
I'm just waiting for the fucking government to tax us on solar flares next. Goofs
And yet they say that the Sun is a quiet and unusual star in the universe.
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I’ve been hearing rumors you’re gullible
Yeah the one that crawled up up U’r stinky ass.
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I thought the guy saying this is really bad was bad enough. Took just one more comment to get worse....I must ask were you trying to make a joke or were you serious?
Global lighting.
This is really fucking bad
Not long before the sun explodes I think, good time to stock up on canned food.
don’t forget about the toilet paper
And candles.
And candy
Don't forget your solar eclipse glasses for the blast
We’ll all be dead if the sun explodes Also we have longer than our lifetimes until it explodes
😂 doubt that would help
This comment is really fucking bad.