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May 23rd, 1967 could have been the beginning of the end – all thanks to the sun.
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/2016SW001423/asset/swe20344.pdf?v=1&t=ivl93vtt&s=c53257ab41e68129ca5bd1cf96be7b23841b138f pp 616-617, pp 627, pp 629-630
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/aurora
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub585.pdf
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/agu-1ss080916.php
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SolarMax/solarmax_2.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Y8Y6CW65c&feature=youtu.be
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I never knew the sun could be such a troll
Damn just imagine being those weather scientists and having the entire fate of humanity resting on your shoulders
best host of scishow
Hey! Candle light is not a plasma. The gas is not hot enough to be totally ionised. Candle flame has temperature about 1100 Celsius (some spots have 1400C). To get plasma state gas has to have temperature above 5000 degrees Celsius.
You know what they say, third times a charm!
So avoiding Armageddon requires the people in power have both a firm grasp of science and patience? Well we’re all screwed
50 th like
ha I’m the 100th viewer
WWIII would have happened if Trump had been around.
fire isn’t plasma
2017 will be the year a tweet starts WWIII
So we were moments away from the events of Fallout? Well I’ll be 🤔
Next time NASA’s budget gets cut just show congress what happens of we don’t do our homework
This wasn’t the only time they were at brink of war.
First rule of a nuclear attack:, It probably isn’t, so don’t worry about it.
That is a whole new level of crisis averted
Don’t worry fellas, it’s still coming
ayyy lmao
I was ready for a comment war about Suspicious0bservers like the one last time you guys posted a video about magnetic field interference
Ya know, I remember seeing the northern lights at that very time. Very unusual for that time of year but it was spectacular.
We will never have another world war. It’s nothing but guerrilla now can’t fight an idea but since 2000 we have tried to stop ideas lmfao.
wtf… clear in a few min… 15min to respond.. that doesn’t take a genius.
im sitting in my chair trying to dodge every 5 seconds as if he’s gonna attack me.
very firm karate-like gestures to point out the information
Sounds like it could be used for an episode of Timeless.
Or “How the Air Wearther Service Saved Mankind”
I’m very comfortable to know that the next US administration seems to know and value science. 😶
no such thing as make deciison or not, do any nmw
people smoked and drank like they were on mad men in th 1960s well done.
Who else had Tom Lehrer’s nuclear war songs pop into their head during this video?
Always enjoy Reid hosting an episode, especially on cool topics such as this.
Something similar also happened in the USSR once. It came down to a single man to make the decision to launch nukes, and he choose not too, going against protocol and saving the world from war. He ended up getting sanctions for breaking protocol.
I think about Coronal Mass Ejections and their consequences on earth too
much for my own sanity. This episode doesn’t help
that, especially given this week’s political milestones
Surely the hand that caused such woeful misdirection was not god’s?
Err..aren’t candle flames incandescent gas and dust? If they were plasma, fire would be magnetic.
3:20 Hey, what about Major Kong?
A little logic never hurt nobody!
Now just imagine that the USSR knew it too and made use of the confusion to actually send their missiles without risking a backfire
in England u would be protected under a door leaning against a supporting wall! (According to a government leaflet!)
Hey! That’s 50 years ago today 😱
that’s crazy, does the sun always emit that frequency? I’d imagine a large range of different possible frequencies.
I watched this one with extreme fear of Reid being choked by the mic cable that goes around his neck! Come on!
Knowledge of science saved us in this case, but without science we wouldn’t have nuclear weapons in the first place
Not that science is bad, just an observation
3330 Views and 333 likes. :O
Beatles reference <3 <3
We’re going to have a *blast* of a time! Our *Trumph* card will keep us safe!
I’m not BMEWSed.
“Luckily”, yeah ok
WW3 confirmed??
This for everyone who says that studying space is not as important…
The next time someone asks why we spend time studying space this is what I will tell them!
Jeez that opening escalated fast
smoking and drinking
when WWIII starts, ill be scrolling down youtube for comments
It’s Pronounced ‘Chowder”!
LOL yesterday I watched Doctor Who and the Dalek wanted to use this to make more of themselves
DOn’t blame the Sun, blame the MAD doctrine.
This video reminds me about the game Fallout but with a different start or nearly different background story.
This video reminds me about the game Fallout but with a different start or nearly different background story.
I find it a bit odd how some comments here seem to be heavily rooted in politics. This channel is dedicated to science (specifically astrophysics), yet the illogical nature of modern politics manages to seep through the cracks. I want to be able to discuss the state of the world in a logical, calm manner, but I know that I can’t do that without the other person often throwing logic out the window and spewing anger and malice in my ear. Must science and politics be complete and utter opposites? We don’t have to be red in the face to talk about what we as a civilization should do, right? No hard feelings.
the same thinh happend in russia with their detector so we had really luck two 2s
Wow sun.
Meanie.
Bro the sun is just busting a nut stop recording it
And pretty soon, Rick Perry is going to be in charge of a large portion of America’s national science departments.
FSM help us all.
Good thing those scientists knew their A-levels
Thank goodness Clinton didn’t get elected or we would be going into WW3…
Truly terrifying!!
complete nuclear fallout was practically a hat drop away o.O
ahhhhh I don’t trust any of these people with nukes
I think you have a typo in your title. It’s spelled Armageddon.
“people smoked and drank like they were in Mad Men…”
I literally laughed for three minutes. Thanks, SciShow.
BMEW might just be the cutest name for a defensive radar array.
A moment of silence to our comrades in the other world line. 4:33 worth of silence in fact.
This is one of the best episodes I’ve seen yet!
Wow, that was super informative.
You’d think, of all people, that the military would see the value of redundant systems that use different frequencies.
parable 1 for any senate hearing about fundamental science funding.
I love your work because you generally keep me up to date with astronomical breakthroughs.
That few minuets when they just sat there and waited must have been the most tense minuets in human history.
The sun: Darn foiled again.
I really like his voice
That’s why I said don’t look at the sun! damnit
Can you do an episode of Przybylski’s star? It has an unusually high lanthanide signal in its spectroscopy. I’d like to learn more about it.
stay tuned for the new sister channel to DNews – BMEWS!
holy shit, imagine being the meteorologist who saved the world.
Hank is going to start World War III NOT trump.
But they might work together…
When you said BMEWS was in Alaska Greenland and the UK… I think you meant Canada.
Don’t do that.
1/10 people hit the like button…
I wish half the people would actually use that thing.
That is so crazy! 😱😱😱
I already knew this Thanks Alt history!!!
just imagine how stupid we would have looked if we had killed all of ourselves in a nuclear war just because of a solar storm freaking us out
BMEW’s sound a lot like Bee News…
according to all known laws of aviation-
I remember the “Duck and Cover” days. A terrifying time to grow up. At least we had good music.
TIL I can cause WWIII with the radio equipment in my car.
humanity will probably extinct itself, eventually
This is why my lifelong ambition is astrophysics.
Candle flames are plasma…? what
Vsauce and SciShow uploaded on the same day a few more minutes apart? Is this real life?
It is absolutely terrifying how many times we have come so close to killing everythin
We have to make sure such a close call NEVER happens again. We need to nuke the sun!!
Don’t worry lads we have tons of opportunities to complete the trilogy.
How sad would those history books have been. “Nuclear armageddon caused by misreading the sun.”