On: Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan each year

[ourcat]

A 'Faraday Cage' should also help.

edit: No idea why the downvotes. Faraday cages have long been thought of as a way to protect electrical devices from the electromagnetic waves which can be a result of solar flares.

I even chatted to someone from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory about it in the past.

[titzer → ourcat]

Cosmic rays are not electromagnetic waves. They are highly energetic particles, like protons and naked helium nuclei.

[belter → ourcat]

Because a Faraday Cage would make it worst not better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1fsiv9/how_effe...