Any comments by learned folks on this topic?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080310-mm-grb-us.html
Fear not Tikay, oh sweet damsel type ..... we've sodded around for around 4 billion years and life will continue even if we're zapped by this big-boy beam, especially knowing that within a yocto-snippet of time our now exponentially growing tech' will be somewhat awesomely-awesome, easily able to counter the 'trifling' rays produced by this astro' beast.
Stock up on sunscreen.
Hi tikay,
We won't even know it.
From the article:
Of course they had to end with this.
Of course they had to end with this.
... "I would worry a lot more about global warming,"...
But I liked this link at the bottom better.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/dest...earth_mp-1.html
We won't even know it.
From the article:
QUOTE
Since the initial blast would travel at the speed of light, there would be no warning of its arrival
Of course they had to end with this.
QUOTE (->
| QUOTE |
| Since the initial blast would travel at the speed of light, there would be no warning of its arrival |
Of course they had to end with this.
... "I would worry a lot more about global warming,"...
But I liked this link at the bottom better.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/dest...earth_mp-1.html
This "deathstar" is going to become a loony magnet for every doomsday theorist.
Well I wasn't actually worried just curious, and interested whether anyone would have interesting comments...it's nice to know that if any gamma bursts should hit, we shall be awesomely-awesome by then! 
Well well well...
Our current model for Gamma Ray Bursts wanted them to emit neutrinos and gravity waves.
We have detected neither of them, though the last near GRB should have been near enough - according to its intensity - that we expected to detect both.
Which is a kind of clue that the current model for GRB is pure rubbish - er, I said, that it needs further refinements to include special cases.
Our current model for Gamma Ray Bursts wanted them to emit neutrinos and gravity waves.
We have detected neither of them, though the last near GRB should have been near enough - according to its intensity - that we expected to detect both.
Which is a kind of clue that the current model for GRB is pure rubbish - er, I said, that it needs further refinements to include special cases.
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