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Over A Thousand Years Ago, The Sun Exploded — And Changed Life On Earth Forever
BI - Slate ^ | 11-16-2015 | Phil Plait

Posted on 11/16/2015 7:03:45 AM PST by blam

Phil Plait
November 16, 2015

A new study says that violent space weather that could cost $2 trillion in damage is more common than previously thought

In the years 774 and 993, the Earth was attacked from space.

Not by aliens, but by a natural event—and it was very, very powerful.

Whatever it was, it subtly altered the chemistry of our planet’s atmosphere, creating trace amounts of radioactive elements like chlorine-36, beryllium-10, and carbon-14.

And those provide the clue to what the event was: Those isotopes are created when high-energy protons slam into our air. That means the source must have been from space.

These must have been huge waves of subatomic particles that slammed into us on those dates. Spikes in the abundances of those elements were found all over the world, including ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic, Chinese corals, and more. Generating that many particles isn’t easy, and only extremely violent events can do it.

Several possible sources have been considered. One candidate is that the Earth got caught in the beam from a gamma-ray burst, the mind-crushingly powerful demise of a very high mass star. I wrote about this being the possible cause of the 774 event in an earlier article. However, GRB impacts don’t usually create 10Be due to the detailed physics of the blast, so that makes a GRB as the source shaky.

Plus, they’re very rare events, so having two happen in as many centuries is extremely unlikely (I didn’t know about the 993 event when I wrote that article, or else I would’ve been a lot more likely to wonder about other sources).

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1 posted on 11/16/2015 7:03:45 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv; Kartographer
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2 posted on 11/16/2015 7:04:09 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

BFL


3 posted on 11/16/2015 7:04:49 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: SunkenCiv; cogitator; SoothingDave; NicknamedBob

Hmmmn.

Haven’t heard this one before. Color me skeptical, but not willing to be completely rejecting it.

Yet.


4 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:23 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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5 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: blam
Sometime in the years between 774 and 993, the vikings decided to quit raiding, raping and pillaging, took up the French offer to settle along the northeast quadrant of France in return for learning French, converting to Christianity and guarding the Seine against any further raids on Paris, settled Iceland, Greenland and (briefly) Vinland, installed Danish kings in England and united most of Europe (save for the Iberian Peninsula) under Christianity.

IOW, whatever events these were, they had mostly a positive effect on civilization.

6 posted on 11/16/2015 7:15:02 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: blam

A CME is the basis for my novel on the subject.


7 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:00 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

It can summed up as: “Shit happens.” I think that’s something most people can agree on.


8 posted on 11/16/2015 7:16:39 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: blam
It's Always Something. (IAS)


9 posted on 11/16/2015 7:17:17 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Vigilanteman
"IOW, whatever events these were, they had mostly a positive effect on civilization."

I didn't see a link between these events and the Vikings.

10 posted on 11/16/2015 7:23:46 AM PST by mlo
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To: blam

A new study says that violent space weather that could cost $2 trillion in damage

Whatever it was, it subtly altered the chemistry of our planet

That means the source must have been from space

These must have been huge waves of subatomic particles


WoW! What scientific jargon: “That could.” “Whatever it was.” “Must have been.” 2 times!

SPECUALTION GONE WILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 11/16/2015 7:32:02 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: mlo
I'm guessing they helped caused the last long era of global warming, though it could be just coincidental timing.

And, yes, the data shows that we did have an era of global warming from roughly 1978 to 1998, just as we had an era of global cooling from roughly 1941 to 1976.

12 posted on 11/16/2015 7:38:06 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: DH
A new study says that violent space weather that could cost $2 trillion in damage

Does anyone remember the chaos and damage caused by Y2K? yes, me neither, but it was great for IT hiring.

13 posted on 11/16/2015 7:40:25 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ( Kill 'em all, Let GOD sort 'em out!)
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To: blam

It seems that ever since Darwin postulated that evolution occurred etc by using “let’s assume” over 100 times to get to that theory, that scientific method has died. Now, everyone simply reduces the unknowns by using “let’s assume” simplifications.

Example- why do tyrannosaur fossils have sharp teeth? Because they ate flesh.... No facts in evidence, and science, like jurisprudence, must base facts on evidence, not appearance, anecdotals or similarity.

We are returning to the dark ages, alchemy and astrology are the new sciences.


14 posted on 11/16/2015 7:59:40 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: blam

that would throw cold water on carbon-14 dating prior to 700 eh?


15 posted on 11/16/2015 8:28:05 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: The Sons of Liberty

This falls under the heading of a comet hitting us. It has happened. It will happen.

And the only difference is we will know what happened and why.

Knowing those things will not changed the degree of sh!t that will happen as a result.


16 posted on 11/16/2015 8:40:31 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: Swordmaker; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
In the years 774 and 993, the Earth was attacked from space... creating trace amounts of radioactive elements like chlorine-36, beryllium-10, and carbon-14... when high-energy protons slam[med] into our air... Spikes in the abundances of those elements were found all over the world, including ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic, Chinese corals, and more... One candidate is that the Earth got caught in the beam from a gamma-ray burst, the mind-crushingly powerful demise of a very high mass star. I wrote about this being the possible cause of the 774 event in an earlier article. However, GRB impacts don't usually create 10Be due to the detailed physics of the blast, so that makes a GRB as the source shaky.
Thanks blam and Robert A. Cook, PE. I'm sure we had some topics about some research done, hmm, in Japan I think, about the 8th century event.


17 posted on 11/16/2015 8:44:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: blam; Robert A. Cook, PE; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
In the years 774 and 993, the Earth was attacked from space... creating trace amounts of radioactive elements like chlorine-36, beryllium-10, and carbon-14... when high-energy protons slam[med] into our air... Spikes in the abundances of those elements were found all over the world, including ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic, Chinese corals, and more... One candidate is that the Earth got caught in the beam from a gamma-ray burst, the mind-crushingly powerful demise of a very high mass star. I wrote about this being the possible cause of the 774 event in an earlier article. However, GRB impacts don't usually create 10Be due to the detailed physics of the blast, so that makes a GRB as the source shaky.
Thanks blam and Robert A. Cook, PE. I'm sure we had some topics about some research done, hmm, in Japan I think, about the 8th century event.

18 posted on 11/16/2015 8:44:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: blam

Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn has done extensive research on the “black matt” layer that was the result of a destructive event that brought down many ancient empires and began the decline of Rome around 200-300 AD. Archaeologist chronically downplay the comet-neteor impact causality of several such events, Richard Firestone’s “Younger Dryas” event chief among them.

www.q-mag.org/gunnar-heinsohn-in-a-nutshell.html

Dryas Event Sites:

http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/
http://cosmictusk.com/clovis-population-decline-at-younger-dryas
http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/
http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/media-entertainment/increasing-rate-asteroid-discovery/


19 posted on 11/16/2015 8:45:10 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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Obama has cost the world more than $2 trillion in his 7 years as President. So what’s another couple of trillion in damage going to look like?


20 posted on 11/16/2015 8:45:26 AM PST by shotgun
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