Comment by decimalenough
13 hours ago
The article casually mentions a "notorious" 775 AD event which I'd never heard about (insert relevant XKCD here), so here's Wikipedia:
The event of 774 had no significant consequences for life on Earth, but had it happened in modern times, it might have produced catastrophic damage to modern technology, particularly to communication and space-borne navigation systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spik...
Interestingly, the identification of the cause of the 775 AD event with a huge solar flare came from the same researchers as this story.
Not a single telegraph wire was operational, in the wake of the 775 AD event.
Good lord, you're right! Not even one functional iphone has been found from the period either!
It took so long to get the lights back on that we call it the "Dark" Age
What about Android? Is that also vulnerable?
Chances are that people died of other causes before any cancer could metastasize.