[Servant of the 9]

WOW

So9

[cripplecreek]

Hmmm that might explain my newfound ability crawl around on the ceiling.

[billorites]

"Least Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth"

[LibKill]

I knew something was up when I saw my bones glowing through my flesh.

[silverleaf]

Maybe God is premenopausal and has started having hot flashes..

[UCANSEE2]

Another possibility is that the magnetic field more or less snapped in a process scientists call magnetic reconnection.

I told em, NEVER TOUCH THE RED BUTTON!

[zook]

So, I'll bet that's why I couldn't get in all my radio stations at night last December!

[UCANSEE2]

A neutron star is the remnant of a star that was once several times more massive than the Sun. When their nuclear fuel is depleted, they explode as a supernova. The remaining dense core is slightly more massive than the Sun but has a diameter typically no more than 12 miles (20 kilometers).

Marking this for support on my theory that the core of the Earth is a neutron star, which went supernova and collapsed to the size mentioned, attracting debris to it and forming the layers around the core up to the mantle and surface of the Earth. It is the 'engine' that generates the heat, keeping the magma hot, and generates the magnetic and electrical fields via interaction with solar energy passing past the Earth from the sun.

[GSlob]

Now, if Karl Rove were to trigger similar, or much bigger [i.e. closer] gamma flash upon the opposite side of the Earth from the United States, he could get a few unfriendly countries...

[Liberal Classic]

Pierson's Puppeteers have already gotten the hell out of Dodge.

[NutCrackerBoy]

The magnetic field around [magnetars, ultra-magnetic neutron stars] is about 1,000 trillion gauss, strong enough to strip information from a credit card at a distance halfway to the Moon, scientists say.

Sounds like something a scientist would say when he was tripping.

[martin_fierro]

Way, Waaaaay Out There Ping.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Anything about "gamma rays" goes right through my head.

[JennysCool]

"Is there life on the Galactic Flash? We'll ask Richard C. Hoagland...Next"

[PatrickHenry]

Earlier thread on this, using the NASA title. Search wouldn't have found it:
Cosmic Explosion Among the Brightest in Recorded History.

[Cactus Man]

That must mean it happened 50,000 years ago and we just found out about it.

[Popman]

The whole earth was ZOTTED and we didn't even know it.

[PA Engineer]

Praxis?

[Fester Chugabrew]

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).

That sounds so . . . primitive. Is light the fastest thing around?

[Humidston]

You gotta see this (if you didn't already know about it).

[Noumenon]

Who knows what wars are raging out there?