brightest galactic flash ever hits earth!

[Eli]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: archcommus
Humans have only been around for a couple thousand, meh, we're nothing. Imagine what humans will have developed if they stick around for millions of years like some species *in awe of the thought, keep in mind computing as we know it is ONLY fifty some years old, picture computers THOUSANDS of years from now*

But that won't happen, the human race will kill itself LONG before anything out of our control does.

Eh... Humans have been around a lot longer than a couple thousand years...

Eh, yeah, guess so. Well what, 4 or 5k max?

LOL.. I weep for the future. And not because of any magnetar explosion.. I almost think that would be brighter... no pun intended.

 

[Valhalla1]

did you know there are more humans alive right now living on earth today, than all the humans who have ever lived and died in history

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: OverVolt
"released 10,000 trillion, trillion, trillion watts of power" wow

Wow, that's way more than 1.21 gigawatts.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: Valhalla1
did you know there are more humans alive right now living on earth today, than all the humans who have ever lived and died in history

although I have heard that before, I doubt it somewhat

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: archcommus
Humans have only been around for a couple thousand, meh, we're nothing. Imagine what humans will have developed if they stick around for millions of years like some species *in awe of the thought, keep in mind computing as we know it is ONLY fifty some years old, picture computers THOUSANDS of years from now*

But that won't happen, the human race will kill itself LONG before anything out of our control does.

Eh... Humans have been around a lot longer than a couple thousand years...

Eh, yeah, guess so. Well what, 4 or 5k max?

Err, try at least 7,000 years.
We're at 2005 now. There are records of people from 5000BCE (or 7000 years ago) at least, and I believe before that too.
Try over 10,000 years, and then add some more.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Woaah

Hey turn off that light!!

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: MAME
there's like nothing 10 light years away from us. The closet thing is 4.3 light years away.
AKA: never going to be an issue

The biggest star in the galaxy is only 8k light years away. Something like 100 times the sise of our sun. What do you think would happen if it went supernova, and one of the magnetic poles were pointed at earth? Earth go bye bye. Granted, it would be at least 8,000 years before it got here, but we would have about zero warning since the energy would be moving at nearly lightspeed.

And... who's to say it didn't supernova 7999 years ago...

Also, I don't think there's a person on earth who understands a number like 10,000 trillion trillion trillion.. That's a BIG number!

Would that be like... 1e39 in scientific notation?

 

[nCred]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Valhalla1
did you know there are more humans alive right now living on earth today, than all the humans who have ever lived and died in history

although I have heard that before, I doubt it somewhat

Yes you should doubt it, becouse it´s not true.
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[nCred]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: cobalt

Originally posted by: archcommus
Humans have only been around for a couple thousand, meh, we're nothing. Imagine what humans will have developed if they stick around for millions of years like some species *in awe of the thought, keep in mind computing as we know it is ONLY fifty some years old, picture computers THOUSANDS of years from now*

But that won't happen, the human race will kill itself LONG before anything out of our control does.

Eh... Humans have been around a lot longer than a couple thousand years...

Eh, yeah, guess so. Well what, 4 or 5k max?

Err, try at least 7,000 years.
We're at 2005 now. There are records of people from 5000BCE (or 7000 years ago) at least, and I believe before that too.
Try over 10,000 years, and then add some more.

Try 50,000 - 100,000 years..

 

[Rockhound]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: MAME
there's like nothing 10 light years away from us. The closet thing is 4.3 light years away.
AKA: never going to be an issue

The biggest star in the galaxy is only 8k light years away. Something like 100 times the sise of our sun. What do you think would happen if it went supernova, and one of the magnetic poles were pointed at earth? Earth go bye bye. Granted, it would be at least 8,000 years before it got here, but we would have about zero warning since the energy would be moving at nearly lightspeed.

Stars go supernova once in what, a trillion years? Multiply that by the number of stars eligible for that within 10 light years from Earth and you'll see what the odds are less than .0000000000000000000000001%

No, its not trillions of years. Light years are measured in trillions of miles. 1 light year is something like 6 trillion miles. If the universe is speculated to be between 12-15 billion years old, then it can't be trillions of years.

 

[archcommus]

Actually looks more like 200,000 years. Text

However they say they vary somewhat from each other. I wonder when humans started to look 100% like they do today.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: Rockhound

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: MAME
there's like nothing 10 light years away from us. The closet thing is 4.3 light years away.
AKA: never going to be an issue

The biggest star in the galaxy is only 8k light years away. Something like 100 times the sise of our sun. What do you think would happen if it went supernova, and one of the magnetic poles were pointed at earth? Earth go bye bye. Granted, it would be at least 8,000 years before it got here, but we would have about zero warning since the energy would be moving at nearly lightspeed.

Stars go supernova once in what, a trillion years? Multiply that by the number of stars eligible for that within 10 light years from Earth and you'll see what the odds are less than .0000000000000000000000001%

No, its not trillions of years. Light years are measured in trillions of miles. 1 light year is something like 6 trillion miles. If the universe is speculated to be between 12-15 billion years old, then it can't be trillions of years.

Errr, what? I was exaggerating about the percent and the time of course. But when did I say light years was a unit of time as opposed to distance? I think you read my post wrong

 

[archcommus]

According to my own calculations, a light year is 9.4608 x 10^12 kilometers.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: AdvancedRobotics
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash_050218.html

Occured on Dec. 27th last year, 50,000 light years away. "Had this happened within 10 light-years of us, it would have severely damaged our atmosphere and possibly have triggered a mass extinction," said Bryan Gaensler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

So basically it was trillions of miles away.

How is this news? There's a big difference between 50,000 light years and 10 light years.

 

[ironcrotch]

Sooo.. wait. If this actually happened, we all would have DIAF?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Sooo.. wait. If this actually happened, we all would have DIAF?

No, we'd all start telling each other "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" and wearing stretchy purple pants.


(Lethal gamma ray burst not flames)