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southsider2k5

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Is it true that it is harmful to travel on airplanes when there are solar flares?

 

I have always been curious about how the suns flares/rays affect astronauts. I know people are only supposed to travel across the earths poles once a year, otherwise they recieve too many harmful rays from the sun, roughly equivilant to getting an x-ray without wearing the lead blanket.

 

But what about the astronauts in the space station who get no protection for months except for a few inches of plastic?

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