The "Royal Charter" storm. 133 ships sunk, death toll around 800.

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This sleek iron sailing ship is a modern technical marvel. She is the fastest steam clipper in the world and on this trip she will break the Melbourne to England record by touching down in 58 days. Built for the Australian run, she is 80 meters long and weighs 3000 tonnes. She is carrying 388 passengers and 112 crew. But what else? This is a ‘gold’ ship. She is bursting with over 70,000 ounces of gold ($98 million today), 48,000 newly minted sovereigns, and the personal gold wealth (uncalculated) of passengers who struck it rich on the Victorian goldfields.

As you steam by Perth on September 1, 1859 all the passengers are delighted by an incredible phenomena. It is the ‘Aurora Australis’, but one so bright it lights up the night as if it were day. The captain, Thomas Taylor, notes he has never seen an Aurora this close to the equator before.

Skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. On the other side of the world, a brilliant Aurora Borealis is seen as far south as the Caribbean and Hawaii. This was the largest geo-magnetic storm ever recorded (NASA). Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed. Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire. But this was only the first portent from the heavens.

Just two months earlier a massive earthquake had occurred in Erzurum, Turkey, of force 9 on the Mercalli scale. Over 16 thousand people had perished. Was there a strange connection between these two events? But even stranger coincidences were to follow.

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to an exceptional aurora two months later or to hurricane force winds near Australia two months after that

The usual explanation of earthquakes involves plate techtonic stresses/strains accumulating over many years; the usual explanation of auroras involves the high atmosphere interaction of solar wind particles with the earth's magnetic field; the usual explanation for hurricanes involves the interaction of thermodynamic and fluid dynamic equations for water vapor in the low atmosphere near the sea surface

Crustal slippage in Turkey shouldn't be significantly coupled with the geomagnetic field and shouldn't be coupled at all with the solar wind: I can see no way to make sense of the idea that later solar activity caused an earlier earthquake or that an earlier earthquake caused later solar activity, for example

Moreover, given the exponential instability of the equations governing weather, it will be completely impossible to compute the effects of minor aurora-related atmospheric perturbations on ocean weather two months later or to discover any effects of minor earthquake-related atmospheric noise on ocean weather four months later

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I tend towards believing the former. For instance, the "world wide flu epidemic of 1859" was actually from 1857 to 1859, but they hide that bit of info; and so it would not be a result of any solar event in 1859 - unless the idiot thinks effects of solar storms travel back in time. We can't rule out that kind of thinking, however - since they're claiming the solar event also caused an earthquake 2 months earlier. "Was there a strange connection between these two events?" Well, no, of course not, but the fool claims there was. That earthquake, by the way, was not unusual in its strength - there have been stronger ones in Turkey alone since. And why a (wind and rain) storm should be connected with a solar event a couple of months earlier, the writer doesn't even bother to speculate about. I suspect he just wants to draw in idiots who can't work out which way time runs, and who just get all excited at being told about other events in 1859.

All in all, that is a website for the terminally gullible and stupid. Do you know anyone who reads it on a regular basis?

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If you ever see a link to 'thunderbolts.info' on DU again, just link to this page, and everyone will immediately see what crap it spews.

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