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Just a friendly reminder that no matter what we do on Earth, the rest of the universe is out to kill us and if we only live on one planet then humanity is doomed.

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>An international team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon corresponding to the year 12350 BC during the dusk of the last Ice Age. However, the strength of the event could not be assessed earlier because of the lack of an appropriate model. It has now been identified as the most powerful solar particle storm known to date—a colossal space weather storm that struck Earth 14,300 years ago. This recent finding expands the timeline and intensity of known solar activity and sets a new upper boundary for such solar phenomena. In the study, postdoctoral researcher Kseniia Golubenko and Professor Ilya Usoskin at the University of Oulu, Finland, used their newly developed chemistry–climate model called SOCOL:14C-Ex, specifically designed to reconstruct solar particle storms under ancient glacial climate conditions.

Just a friendly reminder that no matter what we do on Earth, the rest of the universe is out to kill us and if we only live on one planet then humanity is doomed. Archive: https://archive.today/mgdep From the post: >>An international team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon corresponding to the year 12350 BC during the dusk of the last Ice Age. However, the strength of the event could not be assessed earlier because of the lack of an appropriate model. It has now been identified as the most powerful solar particle storm known to date—a colossal space weather storm that struck Earth 14,300 years ago. This recent finding expands the timeline and intensity of known solar activity and sets a new upper boundary for such solar phenomena. In the study, postdoctoral researcher Kseniia Golubenko and Professor Ilya Usoskin at the University of Oulu, Finland, used their newly developed chemistry–climate model called SOCOL:14C-Ex, specifically designed to reconstruct solar particle storms under ancient glacial climate conditions.

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...team of scientists has discovered an extreme spike in radiocarbon

I wonder what the implications to the accuracy of carbon dating could be from that? Carbon dating is based on the false assumption of a steady turn over of carbon isotopes (the assumption is made that C14 generation is effectively constant). The reality is that C14 generation is highly variable and determined by the state of Earth, the Sun and the wider interstellar space.

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I don't know if this following additional point is valid or not, I have seen it claimed that the rate of carbon decay was measured in one thing (organic material for example) and then the same rate is assumed to have happened in rocks. Again, I don't know if that is accurate or makes a difference, but if so, could be a huge factor in humans believing in the wrong amount of time that has lapsed since events occurred.