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NEW VIDEO: Could Solar Stroms Destroy Civilization?
🕑 Added 2020-06-07 12:45:59 +0000 UTCThe sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and have serious consequences for humanity. How exactly do they work, how bad could they be and can we prepare for them?
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Blackadder261
Before or after America trials 'nuclear winter Beta' at the hands of these horrendous fires?
Blackadder261
That's kind of normal when discussing a phenomena that could delete most modern infrastructure if not pre-empted.
ProtoTech
Whell, i notices some fear/worry appearing in me waching it, not much, but i noticed.
I dont think the video is generating any fear, just like any other kurzgesagt video, its specific and accurate, but not alarmist
ProtoTech
Last thing humanity needs rigth now is more fear.
ProtoTech
Videos to generate unuseful fear is not a good choise of topic. Thats my asumption.
Damian Campbell
Great vid! And just think, Earth's magnetic field, our first line of defence, is also weakening. The way 2020 is going, we'll probably get the long overdue flipping of Earth's magnetic poles at precisely the time a CME hits us.
love it all. can't wait to find out more ways we could destroy civilisation.
You guys are AMAZING
Kim
At least i found you guys before i die and did this to myself. Even it happens now i will be happy xD
Tobias Petersson
You are the best!!!!! Love your videos!!
rolf redford
Seems to be autocaptioned yeah.
Lorenzo Wormer
"Solarstrom" means solar energy in German ^^
Samir Jain
I'm Deaf. A while ago these videos used to launch with scripted captions and this no longer seems to be the case. Why can't we have captions launch on the video at the same time instead of having to wait for the unannounced caption addition?
Vik-Thor Rose
VERY Interesting. Glad to know that there are ways to minimize the effects... now if governments / utilities are working on them...
Erzaad
"coronal" uh oh...
Cameron Dokis
A "Strom" sounds quite deadly :D
James Dominguez
Thankfully Strom is dead, so his particular brand of racism is no longer a threat.
That was great, thanks!
xavie
Me: ... 2020: .....
devor
I really like the new Optimistic Nihilism poster, is there a phone wallpaper version of it available somewhere?
James
Had to think for a minute as to what a solar "strom" was
Ike Saunders
A solar strom! oh no!
Sophie Dainty
Thank you for making amazing videos! X
