• AnAngryDumpster
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      2 years ago

      nothing scarier than seeing the words “gamma ray burst pointed directly at earth”

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          2 years ago

          one of our major extinction events may have been caused by a gamma-ray burst. Emphasis on may, we haven’t arrived at certainty on that one.

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            2 years ago

            Makes me wonder how large the “cone” of such a burst can get and how often GRBs happen in absolute terms if this tiny target gets hit twice in only a couple of million years. Anyone an expert on this?

            Also, I’ll never sleep again.