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New study shows how gamma-ray bursts could end life on Earth
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| 8 Oct 2011
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 10/09/2011 8:28:11 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
This looks like the ultimate in “green jobs.” Appropriate some money so Obama can get some unionized workers started on building the gamma-ray umbrella.
To: smokingfrog
Keep some perspective. Your chances of getting killed by a gamma ray are far less than loosing your life on an air craft crash. Of course we all have been told the story about how that is less than dieing from getting hit by lightening, that of course is less than dieing in your bath tub or pool, and that......
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posted on
10/09/2011 10:32:08 PM PDT
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: smokingfrog
Hey-hey, hey-ho, high-energy gamma-ray radiation has got to go!
To: SunkenCiv
Ok it is all over but the glowing weirdness in the dark.
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10/10/2011 12:23:14 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: spetznaz; Captain Beyond; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks spetznaz & Captain Beyond.
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10/10/2011 3:30:56 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: smokingfrog
Oh great! Now everyone gets to be the Hulk.
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posted on
10/10/2011 3:53:36 AM PDT
by
chemicalman
(The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
To: smokingfrog
New research SUGGESTS the continuation of life on Earth depends on massive explosions on the other side of the galaxy. The explosions, gamma-ray bursts THOUGHT to occur when two stars collide, can release tons of high-energy gamma-ray radiation into space.
Scientists BELIEVE they have already played a part in some the planet's extinctions.
They SAY the blasts could be contributing to the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer.
Brian Thomas, of Washburn University, in Topeka, Kansas, said: 'We find that a kind of gamma-ray burst — a short gamma-ray burst — is PROBABLY more significant than a longer gamma-ray burst.
It is THOUGHT to be the first time scientists have connected the timing of these gamma-ray bursts to extinctions on Earth that can be dated through the fossil record.
They say the blasts COULD be contributing to the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer.
Well, gee, if you're THAT sure.....
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posted on
10/10/2011 4:03:31 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: smokingfrog
Women and minorities to be hardest hit.
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posted on
10/10/2011 4:05:47 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: smokingfrog
The Pierson’s Puppeteers know how to handle that one. You just move the entire solar system away from the exploding core.
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posted on
10/10/2011 4:44:31 AM PDT
by
Malsua
To: smokingfrog
“could be” “probably”
I need more research cash...
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posted on
10/10/2011 5:01:59 AM PDT
by
hattend
(If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
To: mylife
HELL YEAH LOL!
It always Godzilla fault on that beside earthquakes
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posted on
10/10/2011 1:49:46 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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