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OldMercsRule
04-08-2011, 09:32 AM
"Astronomers are tracking unusual, extremely bright blasts of radiation coming from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years from Earth"

http://news.discovery.com/space/gamma-ray-burst-mystery-110407.html

Purdy Kool, (actually prolly hot), eh?


:boobies:

OldMercsRule
04-08-2011, 09:36 AM
We are darn lucky that galaxy is sooooooo far away.

If that kinda gun were in our neighborhood, (10,000 light years or sooooooo), it would sterilize this place.... yikes!

fj1200
04-08-2011, 09:39 AM
... it would sterilize this place.... yikes!

It's OK, we need something to wipe out those Indian super bugs.

OldMercsRule
04-08-2011, 10:26 AM
It's OK, we need something to wipe out those Indian super bugs.


One way ta kill those pesky bugs eh? LOL.

Actually it prolly wouldn't kill 'em, (as ya likely know).

Jus' most the rest o' life on this planet.

Respectfully, JR

KarlMarx
04-08-2011, 01:17 PM
A gamma ray burst of that magnitude, even if it were a few light years from Earth, would have enough force to rip the atmosphere off of our planet an radiate the Earth's surface with more than enough radiation to kill whatever was left.

P.S. A light year is 6 Trillion miles

P.P.S. if you could print dollar bills that were a mile long and lay them end to end, the number of dollar bills that would be needed to pay off the national debt (now standing at 14 Trillion dollars) would still not be enough to reach the *nearest* star 24 Trillion miles away

OldMercsRule
04-08-2011, 03:16 PM
'Member that some NASA tecnician's unintended cold viruses in the equipment lived through an orbit or many n' re-entry?

Me thinks real nasty bugs may live through a gamma ray burst.

The 95% extinction event 250 million years ago, (much worst then the 65 million year ago hit by the big rock that killed the dinosaurs), may have been Volcanoes....n' it coulda been a gamma ray event toooooooo.

Bugs survived.......................... ;)

logroller
04-11-2011, 12:57 AM
A gamma ray burst of that magnitude, even if it were a few light years from Earth, would have enough force to rip the atmosphere off of our planet an radiate the Earth's surface with more than enough radiation to kill whatever was left.

P.S. A light year is 6 Trillion miles

P.P.S. if you could print dollar bills that were a mile long and lay them end to end, the number of dollar bills that would be needed to pay off the national debt (now standing at 14 Trillion dollars) would still not be enough to reach the *nearest* star 24 Trillion miles away

P.P.P.S. **excluding our sun, which is star ~93 million miles from Earth.