Cool.
bump
My gramma is a lot closer and a whole lot meaner.
another whack at gamma ray bursts
This is the same Deathstar as last week’s. There can’t be two of these rare things so close.
They already ran this scare on Discovery Channel. We’re all gonna die.
Having said that, life in general is this way. There are events outside of our control, both at the macro and micro level and we can only do our best with what is in our control.
But, this article also shows its clear bias:
"In comparison, the recent human-caused thinning of the ozone layer, creating "holes" over the polar regions, have only been depletions of about 3 to 4 percent, he explained."
There is no clear, compelling, imperical evidence that "humans" are causing this. There are volcanoes that have and will erupt that put out far more damaging emmissions, by orders of magnitude, than all of those produced by man since the industrial revolution...and somehow we still survive.
Cool.
“Since the initial blast would travel at the speed of light, there would be no warning of its arrival.”
So it already could have exploded and we just don’t know it yet because the light hasn’t reached us. I don’t know if I can get my house in order in 8000 years...
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Bush’s fault.
Nice to see them include a bullsh1t global warming nod in the piece.
Jeez, it seems like the journalists and chicken little liberals will latch on to every phenomenm, no matter how bizarre or remote, to shriek that the sky is gonna fall.
Another good reason to stock up on beer...
‘Death Star’ Gamma-Ray Gun Pointed Straight at Earth
FoxNews.com | March 5, 2008 | news.com.au
Posted on 03/05/2008 4:07:09 PM EST by Squidpup
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Strange Space Pinwheels Spotted
Space.com | 04 September 2006 | Robin Lloyd
Posted on 09/07/2006 11:58:04 AM EDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Uh, okay.
I’m calling “BS” on this one.
The supernova “beam” is a one-off event.
There are two, and only two, possiblities about that beam.
Either it is somehow miraculously focused and narrow like a laser beam (really about that focused, and that narrow), or else it’s harmless.
It really cannot be both.
If it’s focused like a beam so miraculously that it can travel 8000 years (four times the length of time since Jesus was nailed onto that cross) across space at the speed of light in a tiny little beam the width probably of our solar system - without losing its energy - the odds that beam is at that very moment pointing *exactly* right at us - are zero.
Zero!
This is total bull.
(imho)
“Melott and others have speculated that gamma ray bursts might have caused mass extinctions on Earth. But when it comes to whether this pinwheel might pose a danger to us, “I would worry a lot more about global warming,” Melott said.”
well that’s a silly thing to say.
Global warming doesn’t cause mass extinction with no warning.
This gamma ray burst business is much scarier than global warning - and there’s no running - no hiding - no warning whatsoever.
Why would they worry more about gradual warming that occurs - what? maybe 2 degrees over 5 decades?
I’ll put the death star ahead of global warming on my bogeyman list.
No wonder there have been so many prescient GW deniers!!!
Everything was AOK, until this.
“the recent human-caused thinning of the ozone layer, creating “holes” over the polar regions, have only been depletions of about 3 to 4 percent, he explained.”
The ozone layer changes in correspondence to the output of the Sun, and the interaction between the atmosphere, the solar winds, and the Magnetic Pole Flux (N or S).
It is what generates the ozone. We don’t.
Tremendous amounts of power enter at the N and S poles and are the source of the energy that heats our planet and allows it to ‘grow’. Ozone is given off at the entry points.
Just like the brushes do on an electric motor.
The field can be seen. It is called the Aurora.
The holes have been there before. We just weren’t capable of monitoring it back then. They open and close dependent on energy passage. Too much, they close and limit the juice hitting the armature of the Earth.
Too little, they open the throttle up and suck in the rays.
Thank God, the holes occur in the one place under which no one really lives.