An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday.
Just a WAG but *maybe* that HUGH Super Gamma Ray Burst we got hit with about a week ago has just a teeny thing to do with it.
The GRB was so massive it shut down the sensors and computer that monitors GRBs. And the GRB data was so large the 'scientists' (people who smoke pipes and wear Lab Coats) thought at first it was a sensor error, or 'glitch' (technical term). BUT, if that GRB had hit us directly we wouldn't be here now.
The GRB was from a Star that went Super Nova 5 Billion years ago. So there 'could' be one coming at us now - and we'll never know it. We'll just all die. Kind of like the Dinosaurs.
Oh well, now off to read some really depressing news.