How true is this meme passing around about a solar flare and

A high energy CME hitting the earth would fry everything. It wouldn't matter if the device was powered off, or unplugged completely. Unless you had it protected in a lead box surrounded by a Faraday cage it would fry.

How would a solar flare suddenly make wireless devices cancer causing?

>>57223196
they are saying that the "high radiation from the sun would cause damage to our bodies", or some such.

My mom called me asking me about it, came here didn't see a thread so I expected it's some facebook/ whatsapp hoax.

>>57223287
Have you ever heard of sunburns?

>>57223162
I believe Earth's magnetic field is able to protect us from a solar flare attack.

>>57223717
It can for the most part. Powerful ones have been known to get through though, I think there was one in Alaska a while ago.

>>57223776
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_solar_storms,_2003

>>57223184
so a faraday cage is not enough to protect my devices?

>>57223162
there have been no flares for like a week mate, sun is pretty quiet these days

>>57223162
I didn't turn off my Note 7 and it blew up.

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>>57224280
>still doing this meme