[vannrox]

Cool.

[capitan_refugio]

This thread has been moved to Chat????? This should be Breaking News!!!! Our deflectors aren't turned on yet.

[NormsRevenge]

"During the first minute after the explosion it emitted energy at a rate more than a million times the combined output of all the stars in the Milky Way. If you concentrated all the energy that the sun will put out over its entire 9 billion-year life into a tenth of a second, then you would have some idea of the brightness,"

Impressive Output Indeed!

[Lawgvr1955]

I don't believe this. Baghdad Bob said there was no such thing as a hypernova. That burst of light was the aura eminating from Saddam's smiling face.

[Brett66]

Jes*s Jumping Jupiter, sounds like it was a matter/anti-matter explosion.

[RightWhale]

This phenomenon has been called a hypernova, playing on the name of the supernova

It's the same word, the same root. super = ekshyper, Gr., above.

If they want to play the great, monster, giant, excessively huge word game, they could go to international standard --IS-- prefices, all of whch are Greek. Excessivly huge would be exanova. Beyond that would be zetanova, 1000 times more impressive than an exanova, or yottanova, 1000 times more impressive than zetanova. If they need to exaggerate further, there is the Arabic language waiting in the wings.

[martin_fierro]

Oh. I thought it was:

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