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[Interview] The Existential Threat of Solar Storms with Dr Benjamin Pope
Description
How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better?
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:49 Meet Dr Benjamin Pope
00:02:53 Tree rings and solar storms
00:20:28 What other ways can we study solar storms
00:24:48 Can lunar samples give an answer
00:26:48 Our place in the Universe
00:35:44 Outro
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