Gamma Ray Bursters (Little Upsilon)

Something new to worry about for Nix.

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The side of Earth facing the concentrated beam of an incoming gamma burst from a nearby source would suffer atmospheric shock waves which ignited everything in the air and on the surface of the planet. The immense heating of the atmosphere would begin causing catastrophic weather changes worldwide within only minutes. Everything which could burn would do so. However, taking refuge in sturdy shelters would offer some momentary protection. Following this brief (under one second) blast of gamma rays would be days of cosmic rays raining down upon Earth, and passing with killing energies through everything as deep as half a kilometer. It's unlikely even humanity's elite in the best and deepest underground shelters available could survive. Life in the depths of the oceans will be killed. Everything on the surface will be dead.<!-/Quote-!>

New source of Armegeddon

How often does stuff like that happen?

supernovas, very rare very unlikely

Suprenovae occur approximately once every fifty years within the Milky Way.

The less immediate terror may well be the possibility of a pulsar entering the solarsystem.

Darke Katt evey 50 years within our *GALAXY*. But how often does stuff like that happen to earth itself?

your still alive aren't you?

Armegeddon out of here!!!!!

21st December 2012 folks!

You do realise how far a Supernovae can be and effect the Earth, right? Not even within the local interstellar cloud. Hell, not even the same spiral arm.

It all depends if we are in one of two directions from the burst.

I think a Black hole would be the best way to go. Well, at least the funnest.

I will take death by banana penetration.

darke katt, i guess my question is, what is the likelihood of this occurring in any of our lifetimes? my guess is under 0.000001%....

Depends upon how you live. Given enough time, all probability tends towards 1.

ah, the second law of thermodynamics, music to my ears.

If all probability tends toward 1 then explain zero!!! Ahha got you there.

Zero is a statistical anomaly.

JB. Already knew that one mate.
To deal with things like this I just sing:
Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The futures not ours to see
Que sera, sera

Why worry about something you hav'nt caused?

Everyone behave or I will divide a number by zero.