Will The Sun Kill Us All?

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJan 25, 2012

“Although it’s becoming fashionable to talk about these solar storms, there is no need for sensationalism.”
— Physicist José Carlos del Toro says we shouldn’t be too concerned about solar activity disrupting our technology and turning life as we know it into a dark and terrible pit of despair in which all the hallmarks of modern society are eradicated as we devolve to our most primal and barbaric instincts, raping and robbing and killing in an orgy of destruction followed by our total extinction as a species. So lighten up.

Image by April Cat, via Shutterstock

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