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Can you provide us with a link of a single documented case showing that space weather was the cause of a lithium battery fire ?

Simply stating that space weather occurs the same time as reported Tesla accidents is not evidence.

"Correlation is not causation" means that just because two things correlate does not necessarily mean that one causes the other. ... Correlations between two things can be caused by a third factor that affects both of them

Cosmic Rays fears debunked as a non-event !!!


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But the aim here isn't to cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The tech and scientific industries have known about cosmic rays since the 1960s, and the events detailed above occurred when more old-fashioned analog systems were making way for new digital, computerized systems, and when the effects of cosmic rays on electronics weren't as well understood.

These days, cosmic rays might be a concern, but we're in good hands. Companies in aerospace, defense, aviation, and consumer electronics as well as chip manufacturers, the automotive industry, the communications industry, the IT infrastructure, and more are aware of the effects of cosmic rays and have worked with researchers to implement safety and mitigation measures, he said.

These days, cosmic rays are so well-managed and correctable that they're almost a nonevent. If they weren't, "our electronics would be facing all kinds of problems right now," Bhuva said.


Cosmic rays seem like one of those things that have been largely taken care of behind the scenes. It's

also a "right place at the right time" kind of thing, in which the chances of cosmic rays flipping the bits in our electronics is sparse and random. And so far, few — if any — major catastrophes can be attributed to cosmic rays, or at least as far as we know. Even in cases in which it's suspected, there's never a guarantee cosmic rays were actually the cause of a given malfunction. It's just a plausible explanation.

Even Bhuva said it's not a major concern for most people, which may be why cosmic rays are a little-known threat. It's just not something that most of us are likely to experience on a regular basis. And if we do, we are unlikely to know about it. A device may malfunction only briefly, perhaps as a result of cosmic rays, and we'll pass it off as a random glitch. Gadgets glitch, right?

"We know how it happens," Bhuva said. "We know how to take care of it."