Gamma ray burst may strike again...

[survivor]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Heal ... 363370.cms

Gamma ray burst may strike again
6 Apr 2009, 0000 hrs IST, AGENCIES

A brilliant burst of gamma ray killed most of the creatures on Earth some 440 million years ago, and researchers say, a similar celestial
catastrophe could happen again. Most gamma-ray bursts are thought to be streams of high-energy radiation produced when the core of a very massive star collapses. The new computer model shows that a gamma-ray burst aimed at Earth could deplete the ozone layer, cause acid rain, and initiate a round of global cooling from as far as 6,500 light-years away, reports National Geographic News.

Such a disaster may have been responsible for the mass die-off of 70% of the marine creatures that thrived during the Ordovician period (488 to 443 million years ago), suggests study leader Brian Thomas, an astrophysicist at Washburn University in Kansas.

The simulation also shows that a significant gamma-ray burst is likely to go off within range of Earth every billion years or so, although the stream of radiation would have to be lined up just right to affect the planet. Currently WR104, a massive star 8,000 light-years away, is in position to be a potential threat, Thomas noted.

But the study, which has been submitted to the International Journal of Astrobiology, isn’t necessarily sending other astrophysicists into a panic. “There is certainly no harm in looking at what a gamma-ray burst might do if it were close enough to us, as this author has done. That’s the way science works,” said David Thompson, a Nasa astrophysicist and deputy project director on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

[crazymonkie_]

*Kaboom*!!! Crazy stuff.

We're so fragile. It's amazing that such a relatively small thing- cosmologically speaking- could just... wipe us out.

It reminds me of the Shoemaker-Levy comet striking Jupiter. We're very fortunate to have that gravity well (which was *just small enough* to not become a brown dwarf, thus making the solar system a binary system and not allowing any life, anywhere, in the solar system- probably) and it was amazing to watch.

[Aksel Ankersen]

There are conflicting theories about the Ordovician/Silurian mass extinction; it could also have been mass vulcanism or hypoxia in the seas.

Important thing to note about Gamma Ray Bursts is that most of the energy is collimated (for reasons not well understood) along the axis of the star - unless we are facing the N or S pole of a massive star it's unlikely earth would get hit by a GRB.

[crazymonkie_]

Oh yea- I forgot that gamma rays, being very short-wave, don't carry too far.

Don't they mostly get blocked by the atmosphere anyway?

[misswhisp]

and the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse have been already released,christians read John,revelations, Islam read yours,Jews read yours, we have one and the same predictions, and they are coming to pass, the first 4 seals have been broken, there are 3 to go,...i'll say no more...read ..please read!

[crazymonkie_]

The Horsemen seem to be released every couple of years. Tell me, how long has it been since Revelations was written; how many years has it been since the 'end times' were immanent? Been a while... I'd say it'll be a while yet, if ever.

[misswhisp]

yes maybe so, but it seems to be a chain reaction lately , where one ends the other starts, animals are becoming exintinct,food is scarce , one catastrophe after another,the ozone layer,climate change, the poles are melting, there is war, again, where one ends another starts, pestilence, cancer and aids are an epidemic, etc etc, and not in world history has this happened over and over again within weeks and days of each other.Have a think about it.

[crazymonkie_]

It *has* happened over and over in history. At the same time. Or nearly. The difference now is that we can see these things happen (well- measure it, anyway) with instruments. Things are just about the same as they always were. We're not about to hear hoofbeats on the glade; the world will drag on as it always has.

[misswhisp]

I don't think so..i think this may be it...it is nice talking to you monkey seriously it is, we have differences of opinion but the debate is civilised and without malice, nice to chat again with you...

[crazymonkie_]

Uh huh.

Got anything other than fear to offer me for spiritual belief? No?

Didn't think so.

[misswhisp]

monkie please read John, Revelations, in the bible,as what is predicted in the bible is coming to pass as we speak.

[crazymonkie_]

Again: No.

Very wise and holy men have said exactly the same thing you have, for exactly the same reasons, talking about the same natural events, since the book was canonized.

This is beyond old hat; it's depressing and laughable.

[Aksel Ankersen]

Oh yea- I forgot that gamma rays, being very short-wave, don't carry too far.

Don't they mostly get blocked by the atmosphere anyway?

Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength has an infinite range in vacuum.

And yes, they're quickly absorbed by atmosphere but are energetic enough to cleave apart nitrogen and oxygen molecules and create large quantities of nitrous oxide in upper atmosphere... The result beng that the stuff reacts with ozone and removes our natural protection from harmful UV and also is a greenhouse gas.

[Aksel Ankersen]

yes maybe so, but it seems to be a chain reaction lately , where one ends the other starts, animals are becoming exintinct,food is scarce , one catastrophe after another,the ozone layer,climate change, the poles are melting, there is war, again, where one ends another starts, pestilence, cancer and aids are an epidemic, etc etc, and not in world history has this happened over and over again within weeks and days of each other.Have a think about it.

It is indeed a disaster prone world, that we are living in.

[ying_yang]

dear sweta:

have you ever heard of "allah ray"?. that maggot caused more misery than gamma ray

[survivor]

dear sweta:

have you ever heard of "allah ray"?. that maggot caused more misery than gamma ray

Dear ying-yang, indeed yes, , and, it's not just me, even my forefathers, since the past 1000 years in India, have had lived the misery brought in by the deadly middle eastern disease called islam.

[sevens]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Gamma-ray-burst-may-strike-again/articleshow/4363370.cms

Gamma ray burst may strike again
6 Apr 2009, 0000 hrs IST, AGENCIES

A brilliant burst of gamma ray killed most of the creatures on Earth some 440 million years ago, and researchers say, a similar celestial
catastrophe could happen again. Most gamma-ray bursts are thought to be streams of high-energy radiation produced when the core of a very massive star collapses. The new computer model shows that a gamma-ray burst aimed at Earth could deplete the ozone layer, cause acid rain, and initiate a round of global cooling from as far as 6,500 light-years away, reports National Geographic News.

Such a disaster may have been responsible for the mass die-off of 70% of the marine creatures that thrived during the Ordovician period (488 to 443 million years ago), suggests study leader Brian Thomas, an astrophysicist at Washburn University in Kansas.

The simulation also shows that a significant gamma-ray burst is likely to go off within range of Earth every billion years or so, although the stream of radiation would have to be lined up just right to affect the planet. Currently WR104, a massive star 8,000 light-years away, is in position to be a potential threat, Thomas noted.

But the study, which has been submitted to the International Journal of Astrobiology, isn’t necessarily sending other astrophysicists into a panic. “There is certainly no harm in looking at what a gamma-ray burst might do if it were close enough to us, as this author has done. That’s the way science works,” said David Thompson, a Nasa astrophysicist and deputy project director on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

survivor

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Sevens

[survivor]

survivor

I found your post extremely interesting and confirms much of my current research and journey in the adventures of Magnetar the Judgment broadcast tool of the Local Universe System Government.


http://www.sevenfoldtruth.com

Sevens

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[sevens]

survivor

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all the best and great blessings
sevens

[sevens]

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sevens