Tuesday solar magnetic storm: should I get out my aluminum foil hat?

Worst in six years. Airline communications fouled, requiring reroutes. Phones sacked. Space station personnel have to stay away from certain bays. Cats sleeping with dogs.

What can I, as a citizen, do to minimize or forestall damage?

use two layers of foil. sit on your cell phone.

might be strong enough for Northern Lights as far south as Chicago. good to get outside away from lights if you aren’t cloudy tonight.

The question should be “Why did you put it away in the first place?”. Was it not properly designed?

:D:D

If you need to ask the question…

As usual, the media is over hypBZZZZZTTTTTTZZZZZZZZZZ and this will ZZZZZZAAAPPPPPTTZZZZZ, in my opinion.

The foil will act as a conductor, providing a path for the charged particles to enter your brain, thereby at least tripling the chance that you will be transformed into a superhero. I say go for it.

Just stay within the Earth’s atmosphere, and make sure that no conductive part of your body extends more than a few hundred miles, and you should be fine.

So for my longest member, steel or copper?

Protect your rabbit ears TV antennae with an extra layer of tin foil.

Just don’t fart. Unless you have no problem with that kind of tweet.

Tonight, certain machines will turn to gold, truck drivers will have epiphanies, aging rural store managers will call their estranged lesbian daughters on Wall Street and all will be forgiven.

I’ve had ECT. Didn’t happen. On the other hand, I got to pick up a complete stranger who turned out to have been an ex- girlfriend. Weird.