The 1859 Carrington Event

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[SunkenCiv]

[snip] On September 3, 1859 the Memphis Tennessee Daily Appeal noted a most startling event. "On Thursday night last, about 12 o clock, the heavens were suddenly lit up as with a half dozen moons." The glow was so remarkable that people assumed it must be coming from a massive fire, and the paper reported that city fire bells were rung. But, the paper writes "When the truth revealed itself, it appeared that old nature had only lit up its own chandelier." The lights were the aurora borealis, although you can hardly fault people from the American South for not recognizing the northern lights. And while the people of Memphis might have been overawed at the "Nature's chandelier," the article gives no indication that they truly knew how extraordinary the event was, nor its connection to the glowing ball of gas called the sun. [/snip]

The 1859 Carrington Event
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[bigbob]

Some external event like this would certainly re-arrange priorities in this country.

[SunkenCiv]

Depends on what ones priorities are. Remember, the leftist trash never let a crisis go to waste.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s probably the same throughout the universe, even in the Ford Galaxy.

[null and void]

Some external event like this would certainly re-arrange priorities in this country.

Well DUH!

We'd certainly need to take in more refugees!

[Celerity]

I, for one, am convinced this is on the horizon and coming to us soon.

And I really hope I’m right (which is why I’m dismissed from objectivity) because the only way I’ve ever seen out of the tyranny is “nothing short of a direct meteor hit”. And a superflare would be comparable.

I want to find data that supports my hope. Again, I’m off the varsity team for that reason alone but I can still chime in with a cheer from the bleachers.

[blam]

"... the only way I’ve ever seen out of the tyranny is “nothing short of a direct meteor hit”. And a superflare would be comparable."

I've had similar thoughts.

[null and void]

Data strongly suggests that our sun is a periodic micronova, with a periodicity of about 12,000 years.

The last event was about 12,000 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

This pod is so darned roomy, there must be hundreds of us in here...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4118550/posts?page=14#14

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 12/21/2022, apparently I didn't consider this GGG-worthy at the time. Have a great week.

[null and void]

Got any suspicious observers here?

Me for one.

[x]

“Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age” went into that.

We are lucky that it happened at the very beginning of the electrical age and not later, when electrical devices became central to how we live and how the world works.