To: JohnBovenmyer
As long as its poles aren’t pointed at us we’ll be OK.
Other wise the Gama Ray burst will fry us even at 700 light years.
To: desertfreedom765
“Other wise the Gama Ray burst will fry us even at 700 light years.”
Not if you wear a foil hat.
19 posted on
02/10/2020 11:00:42 PM PST by
DesertRhino
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To: desertfreedom765
the Gama Ray burst will fry us even at 700 light years. Won't it just turn us all into incredible Hulks?
-PJ
45 posted on
02/11/2020 1:56:28 AM PST by
Political Junkie Too
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To: desertfreedom765
Betelgeuse isn't the right type of star to produce a GRB, as far as we know. That happens with Wolf-Rayet or other stripped-core supergiants when they run out of fuel (producing type Ib and Ic supernovae). For a while it was thought that WR 104 was one of these, pointed right at us and ready to explode. But it turns out it's off by 30 or so degrees.
The distance to one of these actually doesn't matter that much. They're deadly as long as you're within the beam.
To: desertfreedom765
Yup. If one iof it’s poles is pointed directly at us, it will be an extinction level event. Not even bacteria will survive. However, the odds of that are extraordinarily low. Given the distance involved, about 1 in 18,000,000,000,000,000 (seriously roughing the math). If not, it will just be a good light show.
50 posted on
02/11/2020 2:54:44 AM PST by
piytar
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