Over A Thousand Years Ago, The Sun Exploded — And Changed Life On Earth Forever

BI - Slate ^ | 11-16-2015 | Phil Plait

[BenLurkin]

Rules:

[SunkenCiv]

You've heard of the main event? This is the keyword for the Charlemagne event:

• Did a gamma-ray burst devastate life on Earth? [2003]
• Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings [2012]
• Sky 'Crucifix' in Ancient Text May Be Mystery-Solving Supernova [2012]
• Researcher points to Sun as likely source of eighth-century 'Charlemagne event' [2012]
• Did An 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth? [2013]
• Solar proton event seen in paleo records (Carbon 14 in Tree Rings) [2013]
• Over A Thousand Years Ago, The Sun Exploded -- And Changed Life On Earth Forever [2015]

(an extra to the X-Planets, APoD, and String Theory ping lists)

[SunkenCiv]

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

No, as a matter of fact, it wouldn't.

[SunkenCiv]

forgot to ping ya to this list:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3360887/posts?page=22#22

[shibumi]

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

But - BREAKING! MUST SEE! And then THIS happened! Click here to see what happens next - PERFECT!

[hattend]

How come it didn’t kill Mohammed before his cult really started taking off?

[mlo]

"I'm guessing they helped caused the last long era of global warming, though it could be just coincidental timing."

The Vikings caused global warming?

Seriously though, the article didn't make any link between the events it discusses and the Vikings, or global warming. I think you are making unsupported leaps.

[Red Badger]

You’re too late. It’s already a movie....................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_%28film%29

[GOPJ]

Events like that can also create what are called geomagnetically induced currents, or GICs: The Earth’s magnetic field shakes so violently that it induces currents in conductors on the ground. Telegraph operators reported being able to send messages even though the power was disconnected; enough electricity was flowing through the lines to work the devices.

Interesting post blam... thanks.

[Rebelbase]

Hoax theory by a white man to detract from #blacklivesmatter.

[hadit2here]

>> How come it didn’t kill Mohammed before his cult really started taking off? <<

Kinda hard to affect a stone age cult whose most modern utility is fire and using stones to kill people.

At most, even now they’ve only stolen anything from other more advanced civilizations which they are trying to eliminate and go back to their stone age killing ways.

[gleeaikin]

That might explain why in the 100 years after the death of Charlemagne, Europe had 30 major famines some lasting 2 and 3 years. More details after I get a good night’s sleep.

[JRios1968]

Over A Thousand Years Ago, The Sun Exploded — And Changed Life On Earth Forever

[SunkenCiv]

When the Little Ice Age started, it began without warning -- after generations of the same planting schedules, suddenly the springs were too cold and too rainy. Seeds rotted in the fields, and were also no longer available as food. The European climate still hasn't warmed back up to the prior conditions, as evidenced by abandoned "dark ages" farmsteads at higher altitudes and higher latitudes than are feasible today. At least one such ruined house showed up from *under* a glacier that melted, as the warmist hoaxers claimed, for the first time since the end of the last ice age.

[BroJoeK]

Manly warrior: "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."

Modern science -- natural science -- begins with two great assumptions:

1. Natural explanations for natural processes.

2. Processes we observe today worked the same in the past.

So far from being the "death of science" these are the foundation assumptions on which natural science is built.

Manly Warrior: "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."

But there is tons of evidence supporting the idea of Tyranisaurs as flesh eaters, beginning with sharp, pointy serated teeth, like steak knives.
Anywhere such teeth are found in nature today, they belong to flesh eaters.
Herbivore teeth are very different.

But perhaps it will ease your mind to be reminded that anything science can observe is called a fact.
Confirmed explanations of facts (i.e. evolution) are called theories.
Flesh eating Tyranisaurs is a theory, but when a broken Tyranisaur tooth is found in the bone of a Herbivore, that makes it more than "just theory".