Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
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The 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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Hello
Loving the animations!
2020 finds this video very interesting
hello, i have been watching for over 4 years..... keep on making awesome vids :)
Hello :)
Imagine having a blackout for over 5 years while being quarantined
Up to 90% of US population will die of starvation, especially urban and suburban. Average food from farms travels 1600 miles before reaching consumers. Only pockets of people who'd survive are rural population who can grow their own food self sufficiently. Or extremely rich people in underground bunkers with 5 years worth of food.
구독 안하면 프사 님 미래 아들 - or you know, people would just grow their own food
Jack Rags Because everyone has a large plot of land where they know how to farm.
@@user-up3dd1vw6b This isn't really true because they never said anything about how it would effect the transportation system. I think shortages of food are likely but mass starvation not so.
@@arandomzoomer4837 Starvation would happen not because of transportation, but because of not being able to preserve foods; refrigerators are really important!
Kurzgesagt in a nutshell: [Deadly thing]: Can this destroy humanity? *happy intro music plays*
Only humans acting like savages as they all have these last week, & a half can destroy humanity as they burn, & destroy everything in their path.
Manuel Tubens i know lol
They can't just change the intro music to match their subject
@@trollsing I know but it's still funny lol
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The Northern lights tonight was so beautiful it reminded me of this vid
There is this really cool game called “The Long Dark”, where you have to survive in the northern Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm sapped your plane’s battery. It’s a really fun game but since the geomagnetic storm would be a worldwide event it could be considered a post apocalyptic game. But unlike a lot of post apocalyptic games you get to SEE The apocalypse.
I love how Kurzgesagt always makes you feel like the earth is going to be destroyed and then they tell you nah its prob fine
Sounds like something weve heard all before.
@@ljr8819 The media does this all the time.
His channel makes me feel like I'm in science class once again
While media loves to stop before the "nah it's prob fine" part 😆
N
Kurzgesagt: “Babe, it’s 4 pm! Time for your existential crisis!” Me: yes honey....
@@whiteoe Yeah. *looks at current state of U.S. government* Relaxing.
@@bryaneberly3588 so true
@@bryaneberly3588 the US government is a lot worse now.
*a solar hurricane narrowly misses earth in 2012* So that's where the whole *end of the world* thing came from
Makes sence
No, the whole thing was that the Mayan calendar supposedly ended in 2012 so that's what started the whole thing
3:38 How does it travel in less than a day? A day happens when light reaches the earth and according to Einstein’s, there is nothing faster than light. So wouldn’t that solar flare be breaking the fundamental laws of science?
@@-petrichor-7263 I think you're confusing the speed of light with the earths rotation. A day has nothing to do with the speed of light, a day is simply how long it takes the earth to do a full rotation on it's own axis. The plasma travels 150 million kilometres in less than a day. So to show the units better, 150,000,000km/day is the speed of the plasma, the speed of light is 2,590,000,000,000km/day so no laws are being broken here. It takes aroung 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth for reference - which has nothing to do with our definition of a 'day'.
@@lawrencesmeaton6930 Thanks, I was just a stupid kid when typing that comment.
Me watching this 3 years later when a mass coronal ejection is hitting Australia, where I live.
Lmfao it’s not “hitting Australia”
2020 so far : *chaos* Kurzgesagt : BUT WAIT, THERES MORE
let's just hope the calendar is full enough with garden variety catastrophes that a civilisation ending one simply won't fit
There's always more to freak out about if you're searching for it. Existence ain't a walk in the park, buddy.
8:46
lol you guys acting like 2020 is the worst year in humanity
@@papilambo5578 well, we ARE currently in a pandemic so...
Literally everyone in 2020: The July trailer looks sick, man.
These so called "2020 iS tHe wOrSt yEaR" is so fu*king Overused and looks so dumb please stop that shi*
Aflax News why did u censor shit?
I am sorry @Alex but this is just a teaser, the trailer is scheduled for later days. Yk 🙃
Ded
@@aflaxnews5264 On their own, maybe these events are relatively minor but the combination is extraordinary in my opinion.
I love how most videos make a reference to how fragile humanity is, can't deny that its true, we really are fragile pieces of glass that could break any second. Yet, I love how it always ends with a positive note, either its something that's not in our hands anymore or other human beings are well aware of these events, so that they can be prevented. In the end, the entire universe will one day go into eternal sleep, yet before that I hope we can get to a certain type of civilization and make more discoveries about our beautiful universe before we all part.
The author of the video is extremely naive. Watch the movie "Don't Look Up". Until the US Congress makes a decision, the United States will be stuck in the Stone Age.
Bro the easter eggs are great. So much respect for these animators- 5:16 Alolan Executor (Pokémon) 7:20 Potatus et Molassus (Over the Garden Wall/ Blasting Company)
3:07 Ice Climbers
The world: *is about to end* Engineers: “Have you tried turning it off and back on again?”
Good one 😂🤣
Very much not wrong in this context 🤣🤣
Lol
iPhone users: have you tried rice?
I literally repeat that 100x a day when I was the admin at my school's computer lab lol
Kurzgesagt: “Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization?” 2020: “Why not”
2020: "Oooh that good, write that down!"
No dude... don't do it!
He didn't mention what happens to the moon during these various major solar events....anyone know?
500 likes lets go
@@psalm1197 probably not much
I love the fact how the animation gives a super friendly vibe and then you see a bird get crushed and all of his blood is splattered on the floor and then remember, "yeah, this isn't a children's channel"
Nah my kid loved this channel since he was 5😂
👇 Who else came back to this video after hearing about the huge solar storm hitting us now? 🌞🌍
Me! 😁
Me from Berlin 😂
I came here because of the G5 alert
Me toooo✋🏻 Idk how serious is it but i looked up NOAA Geomagnetic Storm Scale and from least to most severe it's g1,g2,g3,g4 and g5. The highest one?! And I read that it came 8 hours ago but it'll persist until at least sunday. "this storm poses a risk for high-voltage transmission lines for power grids, but not the electrical lines typically found in residential homes." Good
“We won’t know for sure until a big solar hurricane occurs.” 2020: Write that down. *Write that down!*
Well, 2020 is also the year of unfunny overused comments about how bad 2020 is.
@@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802 Don’t get salty
CKQsquid; ZSCwoomy But they’re right!
CKQsquid; ZSCwoomy No I’m not, sorry that I’m getting tired of people using the same joke over and over again
@@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802 your not alone I am to
_THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER_ Earth: 🎵Not anymore there's a blanket!🎵
a good dose of bill wurtz never hurts
_THE SUN IS NOW A DANGEROUS DEADLY LAZER, ADAPTED TO GO THROUGH OUR BLANKET_
@PG Guy Adventures Lol.
LOL I READ THIS SINGING
Thank you for that little bit of serotonin and dopamine.
Let's see if we survive the event this coming Friday/weekend. (5/10+?/2024)
Watching this during aurora rn looks rly nice
2012: Prepare for trouble 2020: And make it double
Now all we have to wait on is Meowth.
Miss Seaweed 2028 :0 because that was a 8 year difference between 2012 and 2020
Ok, you're clever😂
Legit the only good 2020 comment I’ve ever seen. Good job!
Maybe Mayans did the math wrong and the world ends 8 years after they predicted
2020: *Now this seems like a Marvelous idea*
a
Well frick
I won't be amazed if this actually happens this year, or maybe war with China who knows.
@@Radzig.Kobyla infiltrate a nuclear silo base and take over the contorls to launch at any nation to cause political turmoil
F
My brain immediately connected to this vid when I found out about the solar storms 🧠
Saaaaame. I knew they covered it.
A wise man once said "the sun is a deadly laser"
not anymore, there's a blanket~~
@@johnh5364 that blanket is probably not gonna be enough to survive a CME
@@johnh5364 Not to mention the magnetosphere is continuing to weaken as the poles are getting ready to flip. It's already weakened 10% or more since the Carrington Event and some scientists are saying that as we approach the flip a CME could potentially unlock the Earth's crust causing significantly rapid continental drift and giant tsunamis. While what they are spraying above us, CaCO3 or better nano-particle aluminum oxide, will absorb electromagnetic energy, it's just buying us time. Mother nature is right on time with her 12,000 year cycle. While I don't think humanity will go extinct, I doubt there will be 8 billion people on the planet after this. Finally, if governments around the world knew there was a 90% chance that this would happen in the next two decades do you really think they would tell us? I hope to God none of us ever lives to witness a mass extinction event but sadly they have happened. Be safe. Peace.
Kurzgesagt: could solar storms destroy civilization? 2020: Write that down, write that down!
Bruh, no more
Me behind 2020 bout to erase it:no you dont
125likes in 7mins. I'll give you one
haha
Stop giving the writers of 2020 ideas for new episodes.
Scientists: "we're going to lose all power for years" Engineer's solutions: "turn it off and on again"
Politician solution: How about we just ignore the problem and pretend like everything is fine?
Underrated
What, I was looking away for a few seconds and it jumped from 6👍 to 14👍
As a engineer in formation I can say, definitely
crimsonstar108 how about we call it a hoax and question the legitimacy of the scientists who proposed such a thing in the first place, then call anyone else who talks about it “fake news”.
Cannot overstate the deep level of quality this channel delivers with. One big question: how prepared do we need to be?
There is like a %12 chance of a big solar flare happening in the next years. And astronomers think it is most likely to happen in 2025 summer. Scientist will have a day or two after they notice the exact time. The best preparation possible is to shut down the main electricity, if you don't want your devices fried shut down all the house electricity and use tin foil to protect devices with batteries like phones, tablets, laptops... if enough people get prepared and gov shuts down the main thing in time we will probably survive it with no worst scenario... Unlike those pessimistic idiots in comments believing no matter what we do we die, with these done we are not doomed...
@@MAWasHere porfin alguien que entiende
What they mean by prepared is by continued monitoring, and more importantly to have the energy grid given the upgrades mentioned in the video. Right now our grid does not have such protection, and while it won't send us back 100 years, if said protections are added then we could probably just go one day even and then back to normal
@@justinh6651 What do you mean by going back one day? I mean, if one comes, we'll die and then we can fix it or something else?
And a solar storm could physically hurt us to the point of death?
I didnt expected to live one.... like ever.... And I got Auroras boreales here in México yesterday
Mantengamonos unidos, no perdamos la esperanza
Kurzgesagt is always like "Don't ever forget that you are less than nothing in a universe of wonder and you could die in any second. Anyway, we love you, hope you have a nice day ♥️"
Yeah
So true, i don't know how to feel, if happy or depressed
Jhony I feel purple
Jhony why not both at the same time
@@someoneinparticular yeah why not?
2020: “Prepare for trouble!” The sun: “and make it double!”
Supercreeperking101 nice
Go team rockets
Corona could be meowth.
To protect the Earth from radiation!
nice lol
We just had two large solar storms on March and April 23rd. Auroras visible as far south as Texas and Arizona! I photographed a beautiful red/magenta glow just 30min north of Las Vegas. Thankfully, impacts to the grid were minimal.
And here we are today facing a 5% chance of this happening with a sunspot pointed directly at us.
It means a solar flare not a coronal mass ejection
@@LeBaldo I assume by 'it', you're referring to that news. The 5% was for an X-class event like Carrington, which increasing percentages for smaller events.
@@IrishRepoManyou are not very smart on this subject are you
Hopefully it hits California and sends them (and only them) back to the stone age
@@LeBaldo It could be both.
2020: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
GENIUS
Oh
Charles the French
@@jazbe4028 yeahhh
Oof No lolllll😂
This is humanity’s final boss we will fight in December.
Don’t jinx it!
You know they're probably right. 😅
Adolf Vlack Jokes aside, I really doubt 2020 is the end of the world.
Is it bad that I'm rooting for the Sun?
fuck no that's our summer
well, here we go…
Here we go again.. Solar flare of 2024…
I got to say this video hits very differently with the massive 11 year event,solar storm. That’s going on.
“Massive 11 year event,solar storm”??? Lmfao
@@DreamOfFlying yeah apparently the sun goes through an 11 year cycle where it produces massive solar storms Granted, looking back at my post. I worded that poorly lol
I love how these videos basically explain how the world is going to end, but he always reassures everyone that we'll be fine... For now at least.
Lol so true
Lol every time!
But he forgets.... right now we’re in the year of 2020
Dude out it's obvious that you're using the youtube algorithm to spam comment sections for your own gain. We don't want you smacked into our face in every single video. How can you be happy that this is your legacy, oh wait you don't give a shit you just want followers. You're just as bad as those comment-promoters maybe even worse
Can u get out of all my comment section
2012 solar flare: misses The Mayan Calendar: *ahhh dammit*
Ahahaha, exactly what I thought! 😆
Off by 8 years
Noice
technically it is the year 2012 rigth now acording to the mayan chalender.
They forgot to carry the 6 or some shit
7:19 Over The Garden Wall reference (the stone and the graffiti on the wall) its not much, but i hope im the first one who spotted that :D I mean its a few seconds but for me who's childhood was that short series and the atmosphere of those good old cartoons is priceless.
Congress released a report 5 or so years ago on the effects of a EMP attack on the US, which would be similar to the super flare event. In that report they indicated they thought 90% of Americans would die. The video briefly bring up "food on store shelves", but it's much more serious than that. Our entire logistic planning, organization, and distribution is based on electronics. Food and supplies locally are only sufficient to sustain a population for a matter of days. The trucks that transport goods and services would not work. The computer systems that tracked what goods need to go where will not work.
Me: "I'm tired of crisis after crisis! I want to see a little peace for once!" *Kurzgesagt uploads a doomsday scenario.* "Alright. But just one more!"
Lol
IKR... he's like you thought Covid-19 was bad, wait until solar hurricane hits us :)
XD
2020: horrible and pure chaos* kurzgesagt: *do it again*
"I'll take double!"
A solar flare actually just hit us this year not long ago
Today it's 2023.
Who else is here after seeing auroras in their backyard?
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2020: "Now I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move"
Can't see 2020 out doing that.
i wish i laughed at this joke
Oh no. Pls no... 🥺👉👈
Hahaha, that was my 1st thought too
Yeah at this point I don't even care anymore
Kurgesagt is in a mission to tell us that literally everything can end our existence
Because it can. Welcome to science!
Kurgesagt is either a doomsday cult or the afterlife's PR department
I love it!!!
The next video: The Year 2020
urge-avatar Where do I sign up?! Wait, not today Satan!
2:44 I like how kurzgesagt put Up (Up the movie) in the video thinking we wont notice 😂😂😂
Like if you're rewatching this while there's a visible aurora borealis over the Florida keys.
Dammit I slept early last night 😩😩
"Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization?" Me: "Honestly, at this point I'm up for anything."
Is that twinkle
2020:Write that down Write that down
2020 is the new 2012 the world willl enddd
"Bring it on" -Prepper
It's just gonna hibernate civilization for a decade or two and reverse the climate change.
2012: *almost had a Solar Storm 2020: No no no, let me try
2020 already proved to be closer to what people thought 2012 will be like
We did have one in 2012, it just missed us.
oh god no
copied
June no!
Kurzgesagt is like: so if this think happens it would prob do some SERIOUS damage to the world, but nah prob not gonna happen
This man is the master of making us scared, just to tell us that we will probably be fine.
I will if that's what you want to hear. Just don't let the small things scare you like--"living life" with a purpose. We have had many extinction-level events before. People just don't want to talk about these things. Dying is easy--but it's living life with a purpose, a path, and a calling--that stomps most people. Most people go through life just merely bumping into one another and when too many people start bumping into one another, then people start to clash with one another.
2020: *This is where the fun begins*
I wish the universe would just get it over with already and put us out of our misery
@@angrygreek1985 your* misery.
Timetraveler: boy if you thought 2020 was wack...
@Master USN 2022: *You are nothing but a foetus compared to me*
They're really tryna give 2020 more ideas
Kurgesagt: "one of those storms almost hit us in 2012" Me: "I KNEW IT!"
Wasn't that even part of the plot of Assassin's Creed at some point?
Imagine if it happened, the conspiaracists would freak out.
Caiã Wlodarski Field day for the conspiracy theories.
There was also an event that year that almost happened that would have caused a mega tsunami event. An asteroid broke apart and was slated to hit a fault line in the sea that was predicted to cause a certain volcanic island to erupt in turn causing a piece of its land mass to fall into the sea in turn causing a larger displacement wave in turn devastating much of the world's economy. Thankfully, the rotation of the earth is actually not fixed. Earthquakes can cause slight changes to the length of a day, extremely slight, but enough to throw off calculations like this such that the fault line wasn't impacted as predicted and the mega tsunami never happened. That being said, volcano is passed due for another eruption. The last time it erupted a Chasm formed oh, but the islands didn't fall into the sea. Next time it erupts it might fall into the sea. Or it might not. We don't really know exactly when that will happen. still, imagine if we got hit with a solar storm this year while all this other stuff is going on and then while people are dealing with a shut down power grid and are unable to receive Communications a mega tsunami wave hits destroying the entire east coast of the United States and the entire west coast of Europe. not saying that's likely, in fact it's extremely unlikely, but it would be a very bad day.
no, you didn't.
Just noticed at 2:46 you used Mr. Fredrickson’s house and i love that so much
8:17 The Radiance
"We haven't had an event like this in decades" Earth 2020- "Hold my beer"
2020 : "Oh yes ! I almost forgot about that"
Theme for July
Haha 😂, we are forgetting a lot of our problems
Humans: guess we'll die
Dead ass was about to comment that
Please dont
I still can't unhear the Radiance fight music playing at 8:21 because of that meme
Kurzgesagt: “Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization?” 2022: no 2020: that is a very good idea
Kurzgesagt : "Coronal Mass Ejection" Everyone : **Sweats nervously**
are we gonna die?!
well with the way 2020 has been going...
Covid-20(20)
:V
hehe
2020: *hmm I've ran out of ideas man* kurzgesagt: *_dont worry man i got you covered_* humanity: ......
They are spy aliens
Kurzgesagt: I gotchu fam
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
👁️👄👁️
theyre god's spies
Re-watching this after hearing the News about the predictions of a Solar superstorm.
And here comes one now! Hope we live!
One wise man said: “The Sun Is A Deadly Laser” (Edit): holy crap, how did this get so popular in just one day?
@J7W Shinden me too kid, me too
Not anymore theres a blanket
Throwback 😔😔
Respect
Bill Wurtz... That video was funny
He’s giving 2020 ideas and I don’t like that
Next thing you know breaking news a mega super flare is heading to earth
You seriosi?😲
I heard a there's a meteor prediction
it's the 2020 half-time show
Underrated
0:04 I don't think anyone has ever described a giant fireball full of nuclear explosions as peaceful.
anyone else watching during the first G5 storm since 2002? 🥴🥴
So it’s basically a natural EMP... June’s disaster here we come!
June will be sunshine and rainbows
ME : ah that's another one for apocolipes bigo
Ethonos KJED u ain’t in the US we took a side quest on racism
na it will be saved for September, let us get distracted first!
@31 03 Fiiiiinnnn.
People in 2012: what luck! The solar flare missed us! 2020: let me introduce myself.
Lmao just thinking this
When second wave of coronavirus hits: *cod zombies round starting*
****
**t**
lol
Who’s here after the Solar Storm of 2024?
It’s not “the Solar Storm of 2024” 😂
8:52 I find it rather reassuring actually.
humans: we're the most advanced civilization in the universe! sun: *cough*
Underrated comment
*earth
earth: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Humans: on ho da coronavirus!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Nicolas Alarcón there are multiple civilizations on earth? you live in the wrong earth man
Kurzgesagt: 2020: “Aight, July, how’s this as your assignment?”
August: black hole pulls up to our solar system
@@jiihjkj3242 No shit, Sherlock.
@@ldbonq i think he was genuinly asking - might not be really bright but no point of insulting him
@@arturiape8145 don't feed em
December: *Interstellar Super civilization arrived: ஹிப்பிட்டி ஹாப்பிட்டி நீங்கள் என் சொத்து! (Hippity Hoppity you are my property)
Who's here after the recent news of an upcoming Solar Superstorm this year?
On the time 8:15 i had Flashbacks of holow Knight. Like my mind went like RADIANCE!!! hes koming to kill us!
Ye
Yes
2020 script writers: Hmm, I dunno if we can do this one...Maybe in November, somewhere between the meteor storm and the floodings, I mean the meteors don't take that much time anyways...
Yeah, I think they can. Locusts are happening right now and a massive hurricane season has already been confirmed.
You forgot about the mutating virus resulting in a zombie apocalypse
As if NNN wasnt bad enough already D':
@@Corusame Everyone knows the zombie apocalypse is in December, gotta end with a bang, cmon now...
Remember they still gotta fit in world war 3
Kurzgesagt: solar storms can destroy humanity. 2020: *WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!*
best 2020 joke xD
Copied!! 😑
Save that for november as for december a blackhole plus bonus zombies since it is the last month
uhgufdrfv rdcgf no I didn’t copy it
uhgufdrfv rdcgf spell correctly
The Long Dark is a great survival game about a CME wiping out civilisation after an already devastating economic collapse.
8:26 thanks love you too 😊
“2020 can’t get any worse” The Sun- Hold my sunglasses
* "hold my coronal mass ejection"
Omg
It’ll just be glasses*
That could have been funny but then you put the hold of my glasses part
‘Hold my corona
"Finally bought a strong gaming pc with all my money!" *Solar hurricane* "I'm boutta end this man's whole career"
just unplug it
He bought?
*gaming
👌🏼
I saved up and planned for 1.5 years for a big trip...well corona said nope :(
Who's watching this tonight?
Carington event: *engulfs earth* People circa 1859: “I missed the part where that’s my problem”
Earth: This sucks, but this year can't get any worse. The Sun: *BEHOLD MY DEATH WAVES*
Hee Hoo! You Thought! You little miserable clumps of protein. You thought of something bright and hopeful, Hah! You thought! But NO! Things are bad and you shall not be the third person now. *Perspective changed to _First Person mode_ .
The sun is a deadly lazer
scp 001
@@iiro1368 *BEHOLD MY MUTANT WAVES*
BananaManThe 1st not anymore theres a blanket
"A solar hurricane narrowly missed earth in 2012" Ancient Mayans: Oh come on, we were so close
In fact there was a calendar change where we accidentally zoomed back 8 years, meaning that it was actually supposed to happen in 2020, which probably would have been the end of the world back then.
@@Nebula_o7 Yes one missed us in 2020 as well
Mayans made a mistake writing 2012 when they're supposed to write 2021.
@@holysandwich4075 oh shit
@@holysandwich4075 and the year is almost at December 😑
Who else is watching the day before a solar storm is about to hit, directly at my country…
There's already a bad heatwave going on in Europe, good luck
@@catherineb6889 yeah i live in the UK, temperatures hit 40 degrees however since i was in school with 4 layers of clothes and no AC i think the temperature for me was more around 50..
3:02 We see this all the time. Espically (I can't spell it right) in Canada's territories. (In case you wanted to ask me the question, yes it is winter year round in Canada.) In Canada, you either never catch a break from the sun, or you never see the sun in your life.
The sun is a real deadly lazer, even with that blanket.
This should have more likes 😔
Underrated :(
True
Lmao why am I still laughing
Bill wurtz is laughing, somewhere
2020: That's another one for apocalypse bingo!
"Don't worry, the engineers are prepared for it. Either by turn down the system temporarily or adding more grid to contain the extra energy" Me : "Nice..." Me remember about coronavirus making people work from home Me : "Oh no..."
0/-1 meme
"Repeat of geomagnetic storm of 1859" has been on my "make 2020 worse" Bingo card for a while! ...the Kurzgesagt video feels like it's tempting fate.
Rule number one: don't win genocide bingo.
Wow, am I dreaming? 580 likes!! I am happy😀😀
nice prediction
I had absolutely no idea how gorgeous Northern lights were made until this video, and now my mind is even more blown with for real knowing 💕✨🎄
2020 when it hears about super solar flares: “Ye I’ll have one of those.”
2020 when it hears about unfunny overused comments about 2020: “yep, I’ll have that too”
Nah its probably more like 2020: *I'll take your entire stock*
Delet e you tube
@@doctorvladandhisbluejaysd2802 WUT
2020: We're running out of ideas, what should we do next? July:
I make a guess....someone famous will die.
@@JohnCena8351 Noooooooo!
@@madil2259 yeeeeeeess
Naw, this'll happen in August. Global firestorms will be July.
@@JohnCena8351 Is it Randy Orton 🧐😂
I bought the Space Explorers notebook and some stickers for it, I gotta say, its really cool!
It's ironic how people get recommended this when the Sun is literally having a Midlife crisis
Like today. 4 cmes in one day today
Sun: "Sneezes in 2012 and nearly sent us to rock bottom" 2020: *do it again* Thank all of you for 1k likes. Sorry if plug is annoying but check out my KZhead channel @Itz_PenGuin
Imagine if sun farted
@@poseidonguy3940 Bye bye Ocean :)
Lee Ruan you watch bill wurts?
Imagine if it did and all the maya calandar 2012 conspiracy people lose their shit
@Itz_ PenGuin 👎
This guy is the only person who can tell us how fragile humanity is and still be optimistic.
@@Somewhat_Gamer stop trying to market yourself
Yes
agreed @somewhat gamer don't do that it ruins it a bit :(
and plus hes made me smarter
@Aurelia I think you forgot about the black death that killed a 1/3 of Europe because of rats and fleas.also it doesn’t take much effort to ruined humanity it just that there are more people who wants peace than violent which is why most countries aren’t at war at each other.
This is what happend on may 11, weaker solar flare started to hit on may 2 and in then a CME.
Not only one CME thought. CMEs happen all the time.