This has nothing to do with solar flares or cycles.

Root Cause Analysis has determined that solar flares, which come from the Sun, are the reason any life exists on Earth. Without the sun, no technical evolution would have occurred and no outage in Facebook's infrastructure would have happened.

wow... Haven't you heard about the Big Bang?

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

is that sarcasm? because I can play, but only if we confirm this is sarcasm

There are technical limits to how much sarcasm can be understood as such on the Internet.

Narrator: It was not

> causing minor shortwave blackouts

You probably shouldn't try to use Messenger over a shortwave connection.

'Solar Flares'?

I recognize a fellow BOFH...