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When the field flips, the shield weakens to about 10% strength. When that happens, our defenses fail quickly. Solar radiation hits the surface.
Plasma from the sun floods the atmosphere. Our magnetic field is weakening right now. It's already 10% weaker since the 1800s.
Over the South Atlantic, satellites have been disabled. And the North magnetic pole is moving 34 m a year towards Siberia and moving faster every year. Something is happening.
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No, my S was Johnny Rockwell. Uh, but everyone in DBlock just called him the ram. Solar weather can be calm or chaotic.
It's a cycle. The Earth's magnetic field is stable, then it flips. It's also a cycle.
The danger isn't so much the flip of the poles. It's the time in between. When the poles flip, the Earth's magnetic field becomes twisted and tangled and very weak.
That leaves us vulnerable to solar weather. In 1921, a big solar storm hit Earth. Telegraph stations caught fire.
Railroad equipment melted. The sky turned deep red as far south as Texas. And that happened with our magnetic shield at full strength.
Imagine that same storm hitting today with our weakened field. The damage would be huge. Plasma could fry every electronic device on Earth.
Phones, TVs, computers, the entire internet gone. Communities would be cut off. Power grids would fail.
Modern life then breaks down in minutes. Think about New York City, Chicago, Beijing in total darkness for weeks. Chaos is an understatement.
That was 1921. September 1859 was worse. The Carrington event.
Telegraph operators got shocked from their own machines. Sparks flew everywhere. Paper caught fire.
The northern lights moved so far south they were seen in Cuba. People woke up at 2 a. m.
and birds started singing. They thought it was morning. The sky was bright enough to read a newspaper outside.
Frederick Drw was in Kashmir, India. He wrote in his journal, quote, "The whole northern hemisphere was as light as though the sun was beginning to rise. " He described the sky all crimson, a most vivid blood red color.
Drw wasn't a scientist. He just wrote what he saw. Ships at sea were lost.
Compasses spun wildly, useless. Sailors saw the ocean glow a strange blue green light. This wasn't sunlight.
It wasn't the ocean. It was plasma. Pure energy from space slipping through our weak magnetic shield.
Scientists found proof of an even bigger event. 1770. Captain James Cook saw it near Indonesia.
Chinese astronomers recorded a massive sunspot twice the size of any seen before. Auroras lasted nine straight days. Ancient myths talk about this.
In Norse legend, Ragnarok, the sky opens, fire giants pour through. The Hopi, Maya, and other native people have similar stories of fire raining from the sky. These legends come from different cultures, different continents, but they all describe the same thing.
The sky turns to fire. Strange things appear. Reality breaks down.
Our ancestors weren't surprised by these events. They had warning systems, more advanced than we thought. systems may be still working today.
They knew the signs and carved them into stone. And we're seeing those signs right now. The ancients were prepared.
They built monuments that we thought were for worship, but they were actually for protection. The ancients knew about the violent solar cycle. They built monuments and used rituals for protection.
Look at winter solstice traditions. Almost every major culture has one. They all involved keeping a flame burning through the darkest days, the u log, the festival of lights, the Christmas candle.
These weren't just celebrations. They were ancient protection rituals. Ancient Egyptians celebrated the demon days, a 5-day festival during the darkest time of year.
They believe this is when the dark spirits could enter our world. Their protection, keep flames burning constantly. Roman Saturnelia, Celtic winter solstice, Chinese Dongji festival, all featured continuous flames, light during the darkest days.
The Persian Shabialda Festival celebrated light over darkness by keeping candles burning all night long. And here's what's interesting. These rituals match periods of high solar activity and weakened magnetic fields.
Icecore samples show proof of major solar events that line up with the timing of these ancient festivals. These cultures had no contact if they all share the same fear. Obsessed with keeping flames burning.
And at the exact same time of year, they remembered something we forgot, something ancient, something dangerous. The Department of Defense knows what's coming. They have plans for the aftermath.
The plasma hits, electronics stop, air pressure drops, people bleed from their ears, from their nose, and then creatures appear. The government calls them phantoids, beings from another dimension. They slip through when reality weakens.
They look like microscopic life blown up to a massive size. Think tardigrade, the size of a building. This isn't science fiction.
The DoD has con plan 888. It details different scenarios. When the magnetic field collapses, they expect temporary reanimation of recently deceased organic matter.
In other words, zombies. The military has a guide on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. And most people think it's a joke.
But the first line of the program, quote, "This plan was not actually designed as a joke. " Former Marine Sergeant Jim Spark says he was part of a classified exercise in 2009 cenamed Broken Mirror. It simulated a massive solar flare triggering electromagnetic anomalies worldwide.
Spark says his unit trained to contain biological entities of unknown origin entities appearing during the event. A declassified CIA document from 1976 is titled Electromagnetic Effects on Human Tissue. It discusses plasma's strange properties.
The report says plasma can show almost intelligent behavior under certain conditions and appear to respond to consciousness. Three pages are still classified. The Russians studied this since the 1950s.
Their name for fazoids, plasma ghosts. Soviet scientists believed these things were always here, but only visible during geomagnetic events. Many governments fear that if plasma makes it to the surface, it will look for organic vessels.
And Earth has millions of organic vessels capable of using electricity all over the world. They're called human corpses. The ancient Egyptians seem to understand this energy.
Researchers at Cairo University found that ancient Egyptian mummies have high levels of conductive metals, copper, gold, special salts. These materials form pathways through the bodies. This wasn't just symbolism.
This was circuitry. So many governments of the world, including our own, fear that our weakening shield means the next storm won't just turn off the lights. It could turn on the dead.
The ancients knew about plasma. They didn't just light candles. They built structures.
Massive structures to channel the energy or maybe contain it. The Nazcal lines in Peru. Massive drawings on the ground.
You can only see them from high in the air. Some scientists think these patterns might be landing strips to attract plasma energy. Channel it during geomagnetic events.
The desert floor there conducts electricity. Well, an ideal material for plasma interaction. Giant stone structures like Stonehenge, the pyramids, sites across South America.
They all share key electrical properties. They sit on limestone bedrock. Limestone conducts electricity.
Many of these structures contain quartz. Quartz creates electrical charges under pressure. Their positions around the globe create a vast network, almost like a planetary circuit.
After the Apollo missions ended, we pulled our space programs back. So why in the past few years is there sudden urgency to go to deep space? It makes sense if you're worried about the plasma apocalypse.
They're not trying to reach other planets. They're trying to escape this one. We're already seeing the warning signs.
Strange sounds in the sky like massive sheets of ice cracking. People call them sky trumpets or atmospheric groans documented in over 40 countries. They happen most often in areas with unusual geomagnetic activity.
The magnetic pole races towards Siberia faster than ever recorded. The South Atlantic anomaly is growing larger. Our electrical grid is weaker than ever.
and the sun. It's entering a period of high activity. The storm is coming and we are not prepared.
We built our world on technology. That technology makes us feel powerful, but it's actually made us more vulnerable. It's just a matter of time before technology betrays us.
And let's see how long our great civilization lasts once the lights go out. The plasma apocalypse is something that really scares me. But Thanosids, zombies, ancient warnings carved in stone.
Let's separate facts from the fiction. Earth's magnetic field is weakening. The north magnetic pole is shifting faster than before.
That's confirmed. Scientists measure it. Since the 1800s, the field strength dropped about 10%.
The European Space Ay's Swarm satellites track these changes. It's real. The South Atlantic anomaly is real.
It fluctuates, but it's steadily growing larger. It's not just causing problems with satellites, either. It's affecting X-ray equipment on the surface.
The big solar storms, those are real, too. The Karantine event in 1859 happened. Telegraph systems failed.
Operators got electrocuted. Auroras were seen near the equator. That's documented history.
The 1921 storm also real. caused fires everywhere, disrupted communication. Could a storm like Carrington hit us today?
Yes. Solar scientists all agree. NASA, NOAA, FEMA, they all know it's possible.
A big coronal mass ejection or CME aimed at Earth could knock out power grids for weeks, maybe months. Our modern world depends on electricity. Losing it would be bad.
Very bad. And this is a real worry. But what about the other stuff?
Interdimensional beings, phantomazoids. There's no scientific proof for any of that. Conplan 8888, that's a real military document, but it was a training exercise.
The military uses unrealistic scenarios for training all the time so they don't get mistaken for actual plans. The document says it uses fictional zombies as a teaching tool, not because the Pentagon expects zombies, allegedly, but it's a pretty interesting document and really detailed. It's kind of suspicious actually.
So, we're going to do a whole episode on that. Ancient solstice festivals, they do share themes. Light, fire, burning continuously, but experts usually link this to seasons.
Shorter days, colder weather makes sense to focus on fire and light. There's no direct proof connecting these festivals specifically to plasma events or magnetic field shifts. It's an interesting idea, but just an idea so far.
But this threat is real. a major solar storm hitting a weakened magnetic field that could cause blackouts and communication failures for a long time. We need to prepare and I'm worried we're moving too slowly.
We see ourselves as masters of this planet. We split the atom, mapped our DNA, connected every corner of the world. Yet, one solar hiccup could end it all.
Our ancestors understood their place in this cosmic arrangement. They didn't try to conquer nature. They respected its cycles, built their lives around its rhythms, watched for its warnings.
We've lost that humility. The ancients left us instructions for survival. We would be wise to learn from them.
If we don't, and a major plasma storm hits, the sun will deliver a cruel irony. A planet covered with warnings carved in stone, but nobody alive to read them. Thanks for listening or watching the Y File Stripped, where I try to get right to the point, right to the story, then right to the truth.
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