
Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How Much Sun Screen Would I Need to Survive a Solar Flare?
It's not like that scene and terminator, where she's watching the nuclear bomb go off and her face melts or something. No, it's much more indirect. It's mostly going to knock out a lot of our electric infra structure. Why only things that are metallic? You know, like, why don't trees get burned? Yet? The energy can get deposited in trees also. But, you know, metals are just great wayys to absorb this energy,. Because they have all these electrons floating around in these conduction bands That can absorb this energy and start to flow. These are charged particles coming in, so theyre on to like to interact with other charged particles.
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