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by jajko 591 days ago
This is what nature keeps doing for billions of years - we have constant background radiation, some stuff from sun which still gets through, and lets not forget about everybody's favorite cosmic rays. The most energetic particle we detected had energy of baseball ball thrown at 100kmh. I'd say this is the main fuel of whole evolution of life on Earth, on top of drastically changing environments.

You can't build 100% radiation-shielded environment, anywhere. Neutrinos just don't care that much about obstacles (and interact very weakly with target, but they still do in small numbers, that's how we detect them).

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on the scale that nature does it, the consumers of plants also evolve.

I can't believe what I'm being asked to argue here, it's "environmentalism" and "public health" and "anti big X" all rolled up into one. I'm on the other sides of all those issues, so I wish you'd all get back in your lanes.

Nah, you're just arguing magical thinking based on, to put it charitably, an understanding of reality pulled from pulp sci-fi and cheap comic books.