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Be worried, but don't assume this is an earth-ending event. How magnetic fields impact UV penetration is a complex process involving both physics and chemistry. One thing humans have proven very good at is modifying our atmosphere. Before we all retreat into caves we will try to boost our ozone layer. Artificial injection of ozone into the upper atmosphere is well within current technology. It isn't currently economical but would be cheaper than living like mole people.

And don't worry about nuclear power. Getting sufficient solar power won't be a problem with all those higher-energy particles getting through.




I am pretty skeptical that humans simply holed up in caves until this was all over, as the article suggests.

In fact I'm skeptical UV would be a big problem for humans at all. Aside from holing up in our houses and offices most of the day, we wear clothes.


And yet, so many get skin cancer when a big chunk of the population is vitamin D deficient through lack of exposure to the sun.


Survival just means we live long enough to reproduce. Humanity would be fine, have a child the die of skin cancer in everyone’s late 20s, life would just suck for any individual human though.


It could be that our alphabet was the key to scale.

On a side note is it a coincidence Golang has exactly 27 first class functions?




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