Please.

Humans are social animals. Even the most anti-social, introverted human at times feels the need for a conversation. Perhaps just once a year, but they do need to see other humans.

Hello?

Humans that move to foreign countries almost universally seek out other humans who speak their language. If they have nothing else in common, speaking their language to another fluent speaker is a mental relief. Hearing their language for the first time after more than nine months can cause some to shed tears, even if the conversation is with a stranger on the topic of the weather.

I know you’re there.

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Some humans learn languages easily. Most do not. Either way, a human in a land where no one speaks their native language will learn to communicate. If they do not, they are less than human.

Allinllachu?

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Solar flares are about as predictable as earthquakes.

That is to say, they aren’t predictable at all.

Yes, there are some signs immediately preceding an earthquake or solar flare, but after thousands of years science hasn’t progressed past “we expect a big one every 11-ish years”.

Scientists have resigned themselves to this. Average humans have not.

For a while humans focused on stopping the effects of both earthquakes and solar flares. Flares in 1859 and 2025 caused mass confusion and panic as technological devices failed globally, while the widening of the San Andreas Fault in 1906 and 2034 had effects felt all over the Pacific Ocean in the form of tidal waves and increased volcanic activity. The mid- to late-2000’s saw a great increase in mechanical and architectural safety.

But humans still can’t predict these events.

Giant mirrors out in space aren’t affected by earthquakes, and humans believed they weren’t going to be affected by solar flares. Scientists had done enough research to, they believed, avoid all problems related to them.

Finding out they were wrong was upsetting.

Finding out their error had cost five lives was terrifying.