8000 light years awayis no distance at all when it comes to the gamma flare.
It was about to blow 8000 years ago and the shit will hit the fan at the speed of light, so we get zero warning.
We are pretty much looking at the barrel of a gun and just wondering whether something will come out.
(It was about to blow 8000 years ago and the shit will hit the fan at the speed of light, so we get zero warning.
We are pretty much looking at the barrel of a gun and just wondering whether something will come out.
LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 20:49,
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Nah, a fraction before,someone, deep in a mine will see his heavy water flash repeatedly as the neutrinos come through. He'll just have time to say, 'Wow that's----' before having his DNA ripped to pieces.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 21:28,
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