Stefan Burns

All right, Stefan, thank you for coming, dude.

I'm excited to talk to you.

Great.

I see my ex feed is littered with these types of posts.

There's a sunspot, there's a solar flare, there's a double solar flare, there's all these things happening, these coronal mass ejections that are going to cause a cataclysm or something like this, and nothing ever happens.

What is the biggest solar event that has impacted the earth the most, like in recorded history that you're aware of?

What would happen during a super flare?

So it'd be like a giant EMP?

What happened?

Uh, can you like lay out what happened during the Carrington event?

Like how bad were we affected by that?

This was in the 1700s, 1800s?

1859.

1859, yeah.

So the radiation- Mars has a magnetic field, doesn't it?

Oh, whoa.

Why do we have such a strong magnetic field?

Interesting.

So for people who aren't familiar, can you basically lay out what geophysics is, what the idea of this is and how you got into all this stuff?

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