00:00In 1859, a British scientist was looking out into the observable universe through his telescope
00:04when he saw a bright white light on the surface of the sun.
00:09At the time, we didn't really know what it was.
00:12Today, we know that that was a solar flare.
00:15And all across the night skies, we saw a bright green light,
00:19which today we know as the aurora borealis.
00:22This was the biggest ever solar storm in recorded human history.
00:26And at the time, it shocked telegraph operators around the world.
00:30Literally, it set fires to telegraph papers and it shut the entire system down.
00:35But that was 1859 when there was no internet or advanced technology or satellites.
00:41So the effects weren't that bad.
00:43But what would happen to the modern world today if we got another Carrington class event?
00:47Specifically, what would happen to financial markets?
00:49Because the last time something like that happened happened in 2012, but it missed us.
00:55But what if the next time it doesn't?
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