It is Earth's silent defender. Without it, a constant onslaught of charged particles would bombard our planet's atmosphere, changing its chemistry and disrupting our electronic infrastructure. Assuming any of that stuff was even there to disrupt. In Earth's infancy, our guardian may have prevented the sun's action from stripping away the protective bubble of gas surrounding our planet entirely, and so allowed life - and eventually intelligent life - to flourish.
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