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Did you know that if two collapsed stars meet, they create a gamma burst.

Imagine our sun.
Now imagine ten suns in our sky.
Now twenty.

Amazing, yes?

Now imagine one Billion, Billion stars.
This is a quintillion.

Yes, 1 billion billions.

When two collapsed stars meet, we get the energy
of one quintillion stars.

Exploding. All at once.

The force is so great that even if it were 1000 light years away,
it would destroy the earth.

That's right. Even if the damn thing explodes
5,865,696,000,000,000 miles away.

We're dead. Dead meat.

How far is this? If you left in the space shuttle, it would take you THIRTY SEVEN
MILLION YEARS to travel to the site.

So think about it.

No matter what man has done in the mere 10,000 years we've been writing
shit down, we're probably already dead and we don't know it.

There's one gamma burst exposion EACH DAY inthe universe.

So enjoy life to the most, for we will be a brief twinkle in the
sky.

>> No.2  

This does not seem to happen really often because Earth still exists after billions of years of road trip. Anyway, GRBs are assumed to be narrow-beam phenomena which happen during extra-big supernovae and at cosmological distances (i.e. far away). They used to happen when the universe was younger, but near ones at local times are exceedingly improbable and/or hard to be hit by. Neutron star collisions may occur nearby but this should be even harder to come by; neutron stars are very small...

vc: thardose



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