[silverleaf]

You call that a burst of energy?
THIS is a burst of energy!

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/descriptions/GRBstar2.html
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Videos/news/GRBstar2.mov

Gamma-ray bursts can release more energy in 10 seconds than the Sun will emit in its entire 10 billion-year lifetime!

So far, it appears that all of the bursts we have observed have come from outside the Milky Way Galaxy. Scientists believe that a gamma-ray burst will occur once every few million years here in the Milky Way, and in fact may occur once every several hundred million years within a few thousand light-years of Earth.

WE ARE OVERDUE!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/naked_eye_release.html

[Scythian]

Hey, I’m all for a mega burst, I hope it knocks out all cell phones permanently