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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on March 04, 2008, 07:00:57 pm
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/03/04/1847251.shtml
From Cosmic Rays of DOOM!!!!! (TM)
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In a few hundred thousand years.
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In a few hundred thousand years.
Given the constraints of the speed of light, we wouldn't exactly know until it hit us, right? I mean, theoretically, a burst could have occured 65,000 years ago from a star 65,001 light years away, and we wouldn't know about it until we were sizzling like eggs in a frying pan.
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In a few hundred thousand years.
Given the constraints of the speed of light, we wouldn't exactly know until it hit us, right? I mean, theoretically, a burst could have occured 65,000 years ago from a star 65,001 light years away, and we wouldn't know about it until we were sizzling like eggs in a frying pan.
Yeah, but apparently they're predicting it will take a hundred thousand years or so for the star to go supernova. I know those types of predictions are sometimes horribly inaccurate, but let's hope that this one is accurate. :p
Of course, it could happen in the next five minutes. Who knows?
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So that's why Shivans blew up Capella...
That's going to suck by the time we build the portal :P
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Its kind of unnerving knowing that earth is staring straight down the axis of a possible gamma-ray burst. Sure, it probably won't happen anytime soon, but its still creepy as hell.
Good way to cause mass panic though.
On a side-note, this is the most effective topic title I've ever seen :P
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On a side-note, this is the most effective topic title I've ever seen :P
Agreed.
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of course were all gonna die, thats normal
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Doncha just love gamma rays of DOOM?
No but seriously it is highly improbable that any of us will be around when this happens, or when the radiation reaches earth (that's assuming earth is actually in the path).
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Or it could have exploded 15000 years ago and the gamma rays are going to hit us in 3... 2... 1...
Naw.
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The article first says that the gamma rays could remove our ozone layer. Then it says weve already been hit. Which is it? We still have ozone...
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The article first says that the gamma rays could remove our ozone layer. Then it says weve already been hit. Which is it? We still have ozone...
We were hit during the Ordovician. Ordovician =/= Now.
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We still have ozone...
Or do we?
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The article first says that the gamma rays could remove our ozone layer. Then it says weve already been hit. Which is it? We still have ozone...
We were hit during the Ordovician. Ordovician =/= Now.
I know that. But we have been told our ozone is irreplacable. Either it is or we werent hit by ozone reducing gamma rays.
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I know that. But we have been told our ozone is irreplacable. Either it is or we werent hit by ozone reducing gamma rays.
Ozone is constantly being generated by a reaction involving unstable oxygen gas molecules reacting with the increased ultraviolet radiation in the upper atmosphere. It just takes place real slow-like, so for all intents and purposes the damage us humans do with CFCs and such permanent in our limited timeframe.
150+ million years is a rather different story. But regardless, if thinking it's irreplaceable keeps people from making the holes any bigger, then i'm completely happy to let that little piece of misinformation go uncorrected. :p
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Thanks for the nugget of info. I assumed as much but decided to make a joke about it...
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its infinitely more likely we stray in the path of a black hole and get BBQ'd that way.
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its infinitely more likely we stray in the path of a black hole and get BBQ'd that way.
Wouldn't we be ripped apart that way? :p
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first ripped apart and THEN BBQed ;)
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Like popcorn chicken. Yum. Wouldn't it be nice if we all ended up like the fantastic 4 through some twist of chance. (Fate's overrated)
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afaik by the time it reaches the edge of the solarsystem wed be bombarded with asteroids from the belt :)
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We're only looking at it head on now. Unless it's rotating at the same speed the sun is orbiting the centre of the Milky Way we aren't likely to be looking at it head on when it goes off anyway.
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Finally! The world shall be free of it pests once more!
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Meh, the Sun will cause the oceans to vaporize in 0.5-1 billion years anyway and spell end to life on Earth as we know it. And that's pretty much a known fact. Also, the headline is a tautology anyway, since historically the death toll has been horribly high during a specimen's life...
Of course, the faster we get self-sustainable big space ship building capacity, the better. Raising hell from this kind of random threats would be cool, if it were used to increase the funds of space flight research.
I say we build an Orion as soon as possible. Or perhaps just install covers, engines, life support and living quarters to Eiffel tower... :lol:
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I say we build an Orion as soon as possible. Or perhaps just install covers, engines, life support and living quarters to Eiffel tower... :lol:
that actually sounds kinda fun.
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Like popcorn chicken. Yum. Wouldn't it be nice if we all ended up like the fantastic 4 through some twist of chance. (Fate's overrated)
I got dibs on the flame powers!
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I got dibs on the flame powers!
We know, we've all seen the flamewars.......................
Oh! The Human Torch's powers! Right! :lol:
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Suzy storms got the best. Lol
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Suzy storms got the best. Lol
Yeah she's got great powers too!!!!! ;7 :lol:
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I say we build an Orion as soon as possible. Or perhaps just install covers, engines, life support and living quarters to Eiffel tower... :lol:
I agree, and congratulate you on finding a way to nuke the French that they would probably initially agree with. :p
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Sorry, couldn't resist... :p
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I know France was into weird WMD. Now we must nuke it.
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"The year is 2008. The name of the place is Eiffel 5."
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This topic is farther reason to not invest anything in the theory of global warming. :p
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its infinitely more likely we stray in the path of a black hole and get BBQ'd that way.
Wouldn't we be ripped apart that way? :p
Not if we get BFReded by the jets blasting out from either side of the accretion disc.
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I dunno what that means at all :WTF: but it tickled my funnybone. Lol
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This is entire discussion is purely academic; we're all going to get butsecksed by the bony fist of Ahpuch in 2012 anyway.
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Then again, the moon or sun or another gigantic planet may save us and take most of the force of the GAMMA RAYS OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Either way, I'll live forever or die trying.
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Either way, I'll live forever or die trying.
Which will be in 2012
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This is entire discussion is purely academic; we're all going to get butsecksed by the bony fist of Ahpuch in 2012 anyway.
Who?
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The Mayan god of death. Seemed apropos considering the craze is coming from some shoddy reading of the Mayan calender.
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Ah, but it's also corroborated by some future telling Chinese book as well as some other equally dubious sources.
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Oh ****, really? Boy do I feel silly.
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Yeah--we're all doomed to die in 2012... that, or the entire planet enters into a new world peace and we start tp colonize the surface of the Moon and Mars. If not, nuclear apocalpyse FTW!
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Yays! Nuclear winter!