Episode 672: Solar Flares: The Sun’s 11 Year Itch

On this episode of the Sofa King Podcast, we turn our eyes to the heavens and talk about Solar Flares. These nasty little critters blast off of the sun in eleven year cycles and can wreak havoc with high tech equipment. In the past, people didn’t care much about this phenomenon. For one, they didn’t have telescopes to see them, and even once they did, they just didn’t matter. But now, living in a world of satellites, GPS, cell phones and radio waves, these bursts of electromagnetic energy could really do some damage to our tech and even society at large. What was the biggest solar flare ever detected? Do people on earth die due to the Solar Flares? How much money did a Solar Flare cost Elon Musk when his Starlink satellite program got slammed by a flare? What is the real danger of them, and do you need to become a prepper? Listen, laugh, learn?

Visit Our Sources:

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-radio-blackouts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/solar-storm-to-strike-earth-tomorrow-expect-mobile-gps-satellite-disruptions-11658224464966.html

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_are_solar_flares

https://www.space.com/solar-flares-effects-classification-formation

https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/five-amazing-facts-about-solar-flares/

https://www.space.com/12584-worst-solar-storms-sun-flares-history.html

Deaths Per Year Article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle