# If NASA announced that a massive solar flare was headed our way

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-nasa-announced-that-a-massive-solar-flare-was-headed-our-way/711489 "2015-02-01T03:49:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-nasa-announced-that-a-massive-solar-flare-was-headed-our-way/711489/42 "2015-02-03T21:44:02Z")

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Don’t worry – a [world-covering forest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Forest_of_the_Night) will spring up overnight to protect us.

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