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by steve_mcdougall 1155 days ago
By that logic the sun's rays should be causing buildings to topple randomly. You say a lot of words that sound right but are 100% batshit.
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If that were true, we'd all be immune to neutron radiation. It's just there's a lot of stuff between cosmic neutrons and us, and that's where carbon-14 comes from. It's not perfect but at least we're not walking balls of cancer.