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Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth
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| 18 February, 2005
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 02/18/2005 6:11:56 PM PST by Servant of the 9
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To: Servant of the 9
Hmmm that might explain my newfound ability crawl around on the ceiling.
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:14:10 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The crippled stool is the cadillac of poopin stools.)
To: Servant of the 9
"Least Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth"
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:15:53 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Servant of the 9
I knew something was up when I saw my bones glowing through my flesh.
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:17:26 PM PST
by
LibKill
(Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
To: Servant of the 9
Maybe God is premenopausal and has started having hot flashes..
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:18:20 PM PST
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: Servant of the 9
Another possibility is that the magnetic field more or less snapped in a process scientists call magnetic reconnection.I told em, NEVER TOUCH THE RED BUTTON!
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:23:42 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(The truth is like sex, it is a highly personal thing.)
To: Servant of the 9
So, I'll bet that's why I couldn't get in all my radio stations at night last December!
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:26:42 PM PST
by
zook
To: Servant of the 9
A neutron star is the remnant of a star that was once several times more massive than the Sun. When their nuclear fuel is depleted, they explode as a supernova. The remaining dense core is slightly more massive than the Sun but has a diameter typically no more than 12 miles (20 kilometers).Marking this for support on my theory that the core of the Earth is a neutron star, which went supernova and collapsed to the size mentioned, attracting debris to it and forming the layers around the core up to the mantle and surface of the Earth. It is the 'engine' that generates the heat, keeping the magma hot, and generates the magnetic and electrical fields via interaction with solar energy passing past the Earth from the sun.
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:27:58 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(The truth is like sex, it is a highly personal thing.)
To: UCANSEE2
Do you think the same goes for the Jovian planets?
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:32:38 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Half a league, half a league rode the MSM into the valley of obscurity)
To: UCANSEE2
Marking this for support on my theory that the core of the Earth is a neutron star, which went supernova and collapsed to the size mentioned, attracting debris to it and forming the layers around the core up to the mantle and surface of the Earth. It is the 'engine' that generates the heat, keeping the magma hot, and generates the magnetic and electrical fields via interaction with solar energy passing past the Earth from the sun. A neutron star has a magnetic field of billions of Gs.
One in the core of the earth would absorb the entire planet in short order.
SO9
To: Servant of the 9
Now, if Karl Rove were to trigger similar, or much bigger [i.e. closer] gamma flash upon the opposite side of the Earth from the United States, he could get a few unfriendly countries...
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:41:22 PM PST
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GSlob
To: Servant of the 9
Pierson's Puppeteers have already gotten the hell out of Dodge.
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posted on
02/18/2005 6:50:08 PM PST
by
Liberal Classic
(No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
To: Servant of the 9
The magnetic field around [magnetars, ultra-magnetic neutron stars] is about 1,000 trillion gauss, strong enough to strip information from a credit card at a distance halfway to the Moon, scientists say.Sounds like something a scientist would say when he was tripping.
To: RadioAstronomer; petuniasevan
Way, Waaaaay Out There Ping.
To: Servant of the 9
Anything about "gamma rays" goes right through my head.
To: LurkedLongEnough
That must have been the night my man-in-the-moon marigolds were affected.
To: billorites
"Math is..like...realllly hard"
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:00:21 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
To: Servant of the 9
"Is there life on the Galactic Flash? We'll ask Richard C. Hoagland...Next"
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:02:19 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: Servant of the 9
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posted on
02/18/2005 7:04:19 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
To: ErnBatavia
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