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The Problem With a Cosmic Ray
At sea level, roughly where we are, every square centimeter of the planet gets hit by one muon every minute. The particles have energy and they can change, they can flip transistors basically. It's what you make bottle from. What was that war again? The bull. Get a muon. A muon. Yeah. All right. But all of us now, all of us are being, like, just bang, bang, bang. Muon's passing right through us. Is no one concerned even slightly? I'm concerned.