Our well-read pal Valerie sent the following story from New Scientist. Something more to worry about while the Large Hadron Collider does its thing.
“Astronomers think they know what caused the brightest ever gamma-ray burst, which was observed in March: a tightly beamed jet of matter that happened to be aimed almost directly at Earth. Gamma-rays bursts are thought to be caused when massive, spinning stars collapse to form black holes and spew out jets of gas at nearly the speed of light. These send gamma rays our way, along with visible light produced where the jet heats up surrounding gas.”(Click for full story)
“Astronomers think they know what caused the brightest ever gamma-ray burst, which was observed in March: a tightly beamed jet of matter that happened to be aimed almost directly at Earth. Gamma-rays bursts are thought to be caused when massive, spinning stars collapse to form black holes and spew out jets of gas at nearly the speed of light. These send gamma rays our way, along with visible light produced where the jet heats up surrounding gas.”(Click for full story)
This is probably a natural phenomena but the phrase “aimed almost directly at Earth” does conjure images of elite Hegemony Attack Ships from the Black Galaxy. (And the EMP negation of all cellphones.)
The secret command is Open Fire!
The secret command is Open Fire!
CRYPTIQUE – Accelerating expansion of space causes time to dilate.
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9 comments:
NOT MY CELLPHONE!!
I got a picture on that thing & it looks like 'The Hulk' is going to beat me up as I cower in fear...
Oddly enough, I went to college with a guy named Bruce Banner. I wonder how he's doing today?
Personally, I think the pig should feel fucking insulted....
...but then as we all vanished yesterday when we all fell into the black hole caused by the collider, it probably doesn't matter any more....(or even anti-matter any more either....)
More Monroe and less (Michael) Palin please Mick....
But Palin must be stopped. She shall not pass.
The gamma burst could be a message from friendly aliens.
Oh Mary, I so don't think so.
Friendly or not, we'd be fucked. It's almost a law of nature that when a one civilization encounters another that's more advanced, the first civilization goes into immediate and unstoppable decline.
Sorry to be a pedant what you should be saying is "It's almost a law of nature on earth that when one human civilization encounters another that's more advanced in military technology, the first civilization goes into immediate and unstoppable decline."
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No, that isn’t what I should be saying, Officer. I meant exactly what I said. The less advanced civilization is always absorbed by the more advanced. Military technology might speed things along, but it isn’t mandated. A civilization can be totally fucked by culture, economics, food sources, new tool use, religious conversion, not to mention bacteria and immunity. (The Amish can’t stop their kids dealing speed.) I would also ask for proof that this was unique to Earth.
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