Posted on 07/08/2020 3:37:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Dont sweat the neutrinostheyre mostly like fairy dust. There are pions, kaons, muons, iron nuclei, and neutrons with more credence as the bad boys. Lead-polyethylene-boron composite is your friend.
Yes. Larry Niven was always good.
Maybe.
I have a question.....
That neutrino was travelling at 186,000 miles per second for 3.8 billion years, how many miles has it travelled?
These huge numbers are something else.
'Outrageously-Luminous' Galaxies Discovered 300 Trillion Times Brighter Than The Sun
I remember someone on FR explaigning to us that a trillion dollars was a stack of $100,00 bill 140 miles high.
Can you see earth in this picture? It was taken by Voyager from four billion miles away.
Man O Man!
I don't feel very significant.
I have single Zimbabwean banknotes that can easily exceed that total. :)
And....Mugabe is finally gone.
That link just now... 300 trillion times brighter than the Sun, presumably they are great big bunches of great big bright stars. Orrrr, they aren't as far away as believed. :^)
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