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Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth
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| 18 February, 2005
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 02/18/2005 6:11:56 PM PST by Servant of the 9
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To: Servant of the 9
That must mean it happened 50,000 years ago and we just found out about it.
To: Servant of the 9
The whole earth was ZOTTED and we didn't even know it.
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:09:33 PM PST
by
Popman
To: Servant of the 9
Praxis?
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:11:28 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberalism is a Hate Crime-Liberate America from the occupation media!)
To: Servant of the 9
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?
To: 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?
It's the fastest you're cleared to know about.
SO9
To: CarolAnn
You gotta see this (if you didn't already know about it).
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:15:10 PM PST
by
Humidston
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282122/posts - Blood on the Potomac!)
To: Servant of the 9
Is it OK to show him this?
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:16:20 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberalism is a Hate Crime-Liberate America from the occupation media!)
To: e_engineer
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:16:36 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
To: Servant of the 9
Shucks. If only I were privy to the speed of NOW.
To: PA Engineer
Is it OK to show him this?
As long as he isn't shown the lockout gate to the gearsets above 4th.
So9
To: billorites
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:26:04 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:27:02 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Servant of the 9
Who knows what wars are raging out there?
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:29:44 PM PST
by
Noumenon
(The Left's dedication to the destruction of a free society makes them unfit to live in that society.)
To: UCANSEE2
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.
Interesting idea, but a neutron star is more massive than the sun.
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:37:57 PM PST
by
clyde asbury
(Genesis ch. 1 v. 32)
To: Servant of the 9
sorry. I didn't know anyone was trying to sleep.
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:55:46 PM PST
by
smonk
To: clyde asbury
When it is a neutron star. After it goes supernova and expands, what is it's density? It's size is already stated in the qoute I marked.
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:57:18 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(The truth is like sex, it is a highly personal thing.)
To: FreedomCalls
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:58:11 PM PST
by
clyde asbury
(Genesis ch. 1 v. 32)
To: UCANSEE2
When it is a neutron star. After it goes supernova and expands, what is it's density? It's size is already stated in the qoute I marked.
The neutron star comes after the supernova, and the mass is generally 1.4 solar masses. Even if it's half that, it would be many, many times more massive than Jupiter - the most massive planet in our system.
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posted on
02/18/2005 8:01:49 PM PST
by
clyde asbury
(Genesis ch. 1 v. 32)
To: Servant of the 9
A similar blast within 10 light-years of Earth "would destroy the ozone layer," according to a CfA statement, "causing abrupt climate change and mass extinctions due to increased radiation." The ozone layer would recover within a few days, but the loss of every satellite would take years to recover from.
This burst had a power output of about 1x10^40 Watts. That would yield about 80000 Watts/meter^2 on earth from a distance of 10 light-years. About 100 times as bright as the sun's visible radiation, but it only lasts for a few hours at most, and dissipates in the upper atmosphere.
To: clyde asbury
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posted on
02/18/2005 8:13:17 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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