The Sun is gearing up for its solar maximum in just a couple of years and that means more frequent and powerful solar flares. Which has a lot of people wondering, if there was a powerful solar storm and our planet happened to be in the way, how much time would we have to prepare?
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00:00The sun is gearing up for its solar maximum in just a couple of years and that means more
00:07frequent and more powerful solar flares which has a lot of people wondering if there was a
00:12powerful solar storm and our planet happened to be in the way how much time would we have
00:16to prepare well according to nasa only about 30 minutes they're currently developing an ai warning
00:22system one that can recognize the light coming from the sun and identify it as an ejection event
00:27of course light travels much faster than whatever material is headed towards our planet meaning we
00:31can see that before the material arrives at our atmosphere's door this is important as ejection
00:36events can greatly impact humanity's technology and communications the most extreme solar ejection
00:41interference ever recorded on earth actually happened over a century and a half ago it's called
00:45the carrington event and it led to electrical issues and even the destruction of some communications
00:50infrastructure today our reliance on technology has increased exponentially meaning a massive solar
00:55solar ejection one that could even knock satellites out of the sky could drastically change our lives