I feel like I’m learning about this super late 😅

I’m in Michigan. Lower peninsula. All my life and I’ve never seen the northern lights DIRECTLY ABOVE me. This is incredible

the amount of people who don’t even know what a solar flare is until now is insane lol

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL

I grew up on Bill Nye since i was kid in the 90s and he can still break down science so that i can understand whats going on 😅.

No mention of how having solar & battery storage can allow you to still create power, especially if it’s portable. Every one should have a portable power station of atleast 250wh and atleast a 100 watt solar panel for emergencies, stored in your garage- much less likely to be damaged by a solar storm which would predominately affect transformers. If you get a 1kWh battery/inverter portable station, you can make a few miles a day for your EV or run your house basic needs. Also keep in mind many EV charging stations have their own independent battery storage for power in case of emergencies. The main incentive being to buy and store excess solar energy in the afternoon and sell it to customers at peak demand in the evening.

My goodness… reporters can’t understand the risk of this

I'm in St Louis and I haven't seen anything yet. They showed it on the local news just above the horizon. Maybe I'm just in a bad location. Hope everyone else has better luck.

I remember the 2003 one!

More specifically, these solar storms eject charged particles in large amounts in coronal mass ejections (CMEs). If they hit the Earth's magnetic field, electromagnetic pulses are generated (EMPs). EMPs can be devastating because they will induce an electric current in anything that can conduct electricity. If you have a large enough CME, you could see large scale EMP's occur which would knock out power generation and transmission equipment.

that’s so funny.. i was looking up to see if he made a video about this as a kid that i may had forgotten about LOL. you never miss papa bill, also TWU for being early!

Thank you for interviewing this man! He is a Legend! Explains things in ways we can all try to understand… especially those of us that did not learn this in science class. As crazy as it is, I live north of Ottawa, Canada and sadly it was completely cloudy last night and not possible to see any of what happened. A bit heartbreaking for sure!

Bill Nye has got to be one of the most likeable people ever

No electricity could knock us back to some really dark times

Saw the aurora here in North Texas! Posted a beautiful pic of it. Aside from the possible negative impacts, honestly this is very cool!👍😁

I wanted to focus more on the fact about the telegraph comparison again they did not have 12 v or 6 volt converter boxes to cut the power 2 and acceptable current.

Super interesting. Thank you for having Bill Nye, The science guy on CNN.🎉

Happy solar storm.

well, they were a little off, just a little while after sunset is when it peaked, and it was awesome, stretched all the way down past Little Rock to at least -30*, my entire sky was red and green

A solar flare powerful enough to knock out power would be surreal.. Imagine that you're in bed just scrolling on your phone and all the power goes out. It seems that your phone suddenly died and you have to fumble to find the flashlight that also doesn't seem to be working. The streetlights are out, and the only thing illuminating the city scape is a brilliant red display in the sky. From what you know of solar flares and the potential existential threat it is to our digital age, it slowly dawns on you that the world will never be the same. In an instant, we've been thrown back an age without any warning. I hope I never see the day we get a Carrington event level CME. There's nothing we can do but small attempts of preparation for the worst

the answer is in self sufficiency❤ Aloha from big island 🏝️

Wow, Bill., That was awesome. You really do know your stuff❤

Earth: exists Sun: I fart in your general direction! 🌞💨🌎

My niece took some amazing pics in Wales of this last night, incredible.

everytime they played bill nye during science class in elemetary school it never made me more happy

Bill can break down a Solar Storm like no other.😂

I saw the lights as a kid camping in Maine back in the 70s. A great green spiral from horizon to horizon directly above me as I lay under the stars in my sleeping bag by the fire. *Note: The news casters actually gave Bill time to speak. That is just as impressive!

We here in Tallahassee got hit by a tornado and lost power. At night, I noticed that the sky was unusually bright! Wow! Can't believe I saw my first aurora!!!

Hi Bill. Thank you for saving my life. I feel so much more prepared for this solar flare as the sun starts hurdling towards the Earth. Kisses xoxox!!!!!!!

He isn't a scientist

Its all just pretty lights in the sky til the grid goes down.

That was really interesting. Thank you!

Why did he not mention how weak the magnetic field is right now on earth? Crickets of the fools on that.......

Bill looks really good. I grew up on Bill Nye in school.

Somebody should hook a meter to an inductor and see if the solar storm induces a current

Prayers

I watched Stormy have a bukkake today. She's such a great actress/actor/act person. 😂😂

3:07 No we don't have systems in place. Electric companies prioritize profit before everything else. Even fire hazard is to expensive. Just look at Hawaii. Whole town burned down for lack of investment. Texas was totally unprepared for winter. Wind turbines work in arctic winter, but they chose cheaper option that works in room temperatures only.... etc.. To protect network from droping out every 20 years due to sun activity makes no economic sense over safety and security. A big change in thinking would be required before anything is done.

Thank you guys so much for doing segments like this, Bill Nye is just delightful always and it’s great to take a moments now and then to just appreciate the wonder in the world and take a break from all the politics and doom. And thank you for just letting Bill talk!

Solar wind is what creates the visible aurora. I’ve never seen it before but I saw it tonite. 🤩

Disney's marketing with X-men 97' is awesome. #MagnetoWasRight

crazy they got bill for this

Love how he’s still educating us on science matters

It's wise not to do anything critical on your computer during an ice or wind storm unless you have an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Judging by what happened during the 1859 Carrington Event, that probably holds for a severe solar flare event also.

Bill is not explaining this well right now. 1) The sun is PLASMA not gas. Extremely dense plasma that swirls and sloshes like liquid. 2) These swirling pools and currents of highly charged and magnetic plasma have an enormously powerful magnetic field ( 0.4 Tesla, refrigerator magnets 0.0001 Tesla) that sloshes with the plasma. The fields wind up like a spring and SNAP with the power of hundreds of H-bxxbs, hurling the super-heated particles closest to the surface out at a fraction of light speed. If the timing is right the Earth passes through these clouds and it's magnetosphere smashes into the particles slowing them down and radiating the energy they lose as visible light. edit: This is electomagnetic induction at work, the same thing that lets your phones charge from a coil wirelessly, and is used as brakes for rollercoasters, and mag-lev trains as well as military rail-gxns. Lucky for us we have the O² layer and magnetosphere to stop these or all our electronics would be fried to hell, and cancer would be much more common.

Unplug your wired electronics people. No joke. Everything from satellites to electrical poles might be blown out maybe. This is the most realistic apocalyptic event possible to happen. Not just yet though...

We had another G5 about 5:30 cst this morning.

Always great to see them talking to Bill. Great guy. Knows his stuff. :)

Call upon Jesus Christ today, he is the only way we can be saved.

Our hearts and brains are also electrical, so beware of health issues, if vulnerable 🙏

Thank you Bill.

I love Bill nye I gotta say it made my youngest years so fun and interesting into space and such

The "science" guy. Apparently, no actual scientists were available.

When you know the truth CNN becomes a clown show.

Yeah, who can forget the carrington event. Bill was there.

Thank You Bilk Nye

If Bill Nye is a scientist, I am Spartacus.

There will be signs in the Sun Moon and Stars... Jesus

You can tell the host was nerding out

Thanks bill

Next episode Bill explains why Trump is so orange.

As a cosmologist, I'm quite scared right now.

It's all fun till s#it goes strange........ I have 2 of those "touch lights" you know the type that don't have a mechanical switch on them you just lightly touch the metal base to turn them on. Suddenly switch on at my place at 2-50am in the morning! a few nights ago actually on Mothers day here in Australia. The odd thing is both lights are on different power circuits! One is in my lounge room the other is about 30ft away in a bedroom, that has been used as a storage room for the last 2-3 years (my mother passed away about a year and a half ago). In order to turn off the one in the bedroom beside the bed i would have had to move lots of boxes and stuff to get to it. So i went outside to the fuse box and turn off 1 of the 2 power circuits not sure which one to switch first but i got lucky and picked the right one, I went back inside to see which one was off and it was the one in the bedroom. I have no idea what made them turn on? was it the solar flares? who knows? These lights NEVER EVER turn on even in a electrical storm or even during slight brown outs that have happened so not sure why they turned on the other night? Now here's where it gets real interesting! I was here alone watching and documentary on you tube at the time on UFO's and paranormal activity when this happened! spooky or what? And to further make it interesting this same thing did happen once before in the middle of the night quite a few years ago! Back then we had 3 of these lamps plugged in, 2 in the same bedroom and the one in the lounge room in the same places and they all came on for no reason! My mother was asleep in another room she was nearly 90 and could not move around without help and a wheeler, So i got up and turned them all off! she had no idea how they came on either. Never understood how that happened either? I can't remember any solar flare activity back then so who knows? 👽

Hey Bill I wanted to let you know was a little off on your UHF interference? As a shortwave radio user? I wanted to share if you have anything that resembles and or is similar to the Midland 76 - 263 and 1 SSB transceiver your am .might shut off I was still receiving Morse code as well as other LSB capable messaging, but the a.m. it was drawing a lot of power, standard 40 channel civilian radios is still working pretty well least in Massachusetts? He's right on everything else but I don't think it will really interfere with shortwave radio until it really gets up there, it did knockout channel 12 through 15, your mid high frequency, lower end and higher end is still working pretty well? Anyone else having issues I would like to hear it in the reply section so I can plan ahead of time it is a pretty interestin, also the reason why those telegraphs went up in 1800 was because they did not realize power supplies without that converter box, today you will need a converter box to run those, which would convert the capability for the telegraph to work properly in these situations, it'll blow my house up, if I was to plug the CB into the outlet they didn't have converter boxes.

Everyone is acting like this is beautiful. It's RADIATION! I went outside today and flet sick to my stomach.

How is this Trumps fault?

The freedom of Truth will always will this is America 🇺🇸 a blessed nation by God freedom of speech

Will it still be going on tonight

Everything in America is collapsing very fast 😢

Bill science guy still wears a mask.

Love Bill Nye had to hear his explanation. Now I get it. Been e planning stuff for me sin e a young'en

I knew when the bees all started acting different Bill I’ve always been a fan 🎼

Last night I went to shut the tv off my remote wouldn’t work I had to unplug it 🤷🏼‍♂️

Get it right

I got excited when I first saw the news on this in another video -- they were saying the aurora would be visible in 49 of the 50 US States (sorry Hawaii)... but when they showed a map of the projected range, visibility stops over a hundred miles north of me. Sigh... access denied 😭 Should be an amazing show for everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere tho! 🌌

Times in EDT…..ok….think about that.

I don’t understand why the commentators were laughing at Bill Nye during the interview

His tv show though

What is a light year?

Beautiful pictures from all over the World

There was a G5 detected last night. I could see the aurora all the way in South Florida.

Bill Nye the engineering guy...and entertainer.

A potential large seismic event could possibly follow in the next year or so. What happened a year after the last solar storm of this strength?

Bill is a gift. ♥️

Sooo, he mentioned that the “sun is like a disc” and no one blinks! Smh

Imagine someday, Earth will get hit by a full force of a Solar Storm

I took a road trip with my father to see the eclipse, and was telling him during that trip how badly I've wanted to see the northern lights. It has been super cloudy here in Northern Jersey the last couple nights. So bummed

Radios and GPS are susceptible to damage in a way that computers are not, because radios and GPS are constructed to work with the same energies in a coronal mass ejection, but at a much lower level. The CME does not destroy the radio, just the radios "ears," the part that connects to the antenna.

Read the Carrington Event..

I know how to communicate with my own planet

Is it just me or did he say "It's great to be Here." like tomorrow we might not be. lol

"...what HUMANS call the north and south parts of the sun..." I KNEW there was something different about ole Bill!

Bily was an actor who did a skit where he was a scientist in his early career and now they are running with it and YOU BUY IT!

The guy is a genius I'm Thankful for Bill Nye

Bill Nye has been around since I was in diapers. So glad he’s still around to edify us 😊❤️

So does the earth's magnetic field also protect our satellites?

I truly don’t understand how our governments aren’t at least funding more projects to protect our infrastructure from this. I get that it costs money but in the event of a catastrophe it is much more costly to sit idly by.

Thanks for sharing This is normal nothing unusual

This is how the movie Frequency happened- true story.

i find it strange how the solar eclipse + lunar eclipse made an x between the eastern us to part of south america now this solar flare is apparently marking an x too and literally everything that's happened in 2024 has happened in 1813. chronologically i'm not a conspiracy theorist and i'm not superstitious but in all genuineness this makes me feel incredibly uneasy