Mysterious Explosion Detected In The Distant Past, Halfway Back To Big Bang

Science Daily ^ | 1-8-2008 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

[cripplecreek]

The medium bang?

[theDentist]

Folks sure had short fuses back in the day...

[Larry Lucido]

Early Taco Bell?

[Slapshot68]

The Bantam Bang?

[tx_eggman]

The medium bang?

The Big Bang's echo bouncing off the table in God's kitchen

[happinesswithoutpeace]

bkmarking for tonight. Thanks blam.

[kbennkc]

Is this in the Bible? Must be in the back , by the football betting exemption .

[colorado tanker]

Wow, if you were on a planet in that neighborhood, this thing could seriously ruin your day.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

Helen Thomas + Lentils.

[beelzepug]

Is Kolob in that neighborhood?

[sinanju]

The History Channel has a thing on GRB’s. According to that program the big one’s are caused by massive, short-lived stars going “hyper-nova”, mainly to be found in young galaxies made up of such stars.

It’s the small version—the binary Neutron stars merging—that happen in galaxies like the Milky Way and which present more of a threat to us.

The program implicated such a blast, nearby, in the Ordovician mass extinctions.

[vollmond]

"There was supposed to be a big kaboom."

-- Marvin

[colorado tanker]

I don’t think we’ll be able to find out until we invent the warp drive and build the Enterprise. :-))

[J40000]

Halfway back to the ‘Big Bang’?

I must have missed something. Somebody please tell me when the ‘Big Bang THEORY’ ceased being a THEORY and has been found to be FACT.
I must have been out sick that day.

[Diogenesis]

Bush’s fault?

[LibWhacker]

Rapid follow-up observations with the 2-meter Liverpool Telescope and the 4-meter William Herschel Telescope found an optical afterglow in the same location as the burst, which allowed astronomers to identify the GRB’s host galaxy.

I'm still totally flabbergasted that they can see an optical "afterglow" INSIDE a galaxy that's 7.4 billion light years away! I'll bet that if we were only a thousand lys away from it, we wouldn't be describing it as an afterglow, but as a hell cauldron that was melting our eyeballs out and blasting the flesh off our bones. I know that if you are directly in one of the jets and anywhere close to the action, it's curtains for you. But these afterglows sound pretty awesome as well.

[Dog]

It was Marvin.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[pacobell]

Heard some sirens and saw some flashes of light in the southern sky in my back yard about an hour ago. What’s going on?