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Gamma Ray Bursters (Little Upsilon)

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Johanas Bilderburg (Little Upsilon)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:05 am Something new to worry about for Nix. Quote: The side of Earth facing the concentrated beam of an incoming gamma burst from a nearby source would suffer atmospheric shock waves which ignited everything in the air and on the surface of the planet. The immense heating of the atmosphere would begin causing catastrophic weather changes worldwide within only minutes. Everything which could burn would do so. However, taking refuge in sturdy shelters would offer some momentary protection. Following this brief (under one second) blast of gamma rays would be days of cosmic rays raining down upon Earth, and passing with killing energies through everything as deep as half a kilometer. It's unlikely even humanity's elite in the best and deepest underground shelters available could survive. Life in the depths of the oceans will be killed. Everything on the surface will be dead. New source of Armegeddon
Alexander Platypus (Little Upsilon)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:09 am How often does stuff like that happen?
Váli (Fearless Blue)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:22 am supernovas, very rare very unlikely
Darke Katt	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:24 am Suprenovae occur approximately once every fifty years within the Milky Way. The less immediate terror may well be the possibility of a pulsar entering the solarsystem.
Alexander Platypus (Little Upsilon)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:44 am Darke Katt evey 50 years within our GALAXY. But how often does stuff like that happen to earth itself?
Jack Frost (Little Upsilon)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:45 am your still alive aren't you?
Stuart Taylor (Golden Rainbow)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:48 am Armegeddon out of here!!!!! 21st December 2012 folks!
Darke Katt	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 03:49 am You do realise how far a Supernovae can be and effect the Earth, right? Not even within the local interstellar cloud. Hell, not even the same spiral arm.
The Grand Poobah (Golden Rainbow)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 04:28 am It all depends if we are in one of two directions from the burst. I think a Black hole would be the best way to go. Well, at least the funnest.
Treasurer (White Giant)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 08:16 am I will take death by banana penetration.
Alexander Platypus (Little Upsilon)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 12:54 pm darke katt, i guess my question is, what is the likelihood of this occurring in any of our lifetimes? my guess is under 0.000001%....
Darke Katt	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 06:54 pm Depends upon how you live. Given enough time, all probability tends towards 1.
The Crafty Cockney (Kebir Blue)	Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 08:23 pm ah, the second law of thermodynamics, music to my ears.
Johanas Bilderburg (Little Upsilon)	Monday, January 12, 2009 - 07:40 pm If all probability tends toward 1 then explain zero!!! Ahha got you there.
Darke Katt	Monday, January 12, 2009 - 07:51 pm Zero is a statistical anomaly.
nix001	Monday, January 12, 2009 - 08:54 pm JB. Already knew that one mate. To deal with things like this I just sing: Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The futures not ours to see Que sera, sera Why worry about something you hav'nt caused?
Treasurer (White Giant)	Monday, January 12, 2009 - 10:53 pm Everyone behave or I will divide a number by zero.