Posted Friday 20th February 2009 12:38 GMT
A bad day if you happened to be living next to it, I suppose.
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 12:38 GMT
better dig a bunker
alien - yeah well kinda obvious
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
.. Or wherever the jets are dispersing towards.. if we see one pointed at us.. well the light will arrive with the other radiation, so hopefully we won't all be baked potatoes.
As far as I understand planet-sterilizing things, anyway :)
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
Before starting that big accelerator of theirs.... luckily, on this planet, we know better
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
Naaah. It's been 12 Billion Years since this happened, Hopefully they've made peace in that time!
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
Just needs John McLain flying out of the explosion totally unscathed with a bit of dirt on his vest. "Yippiekayay Muddyfunsters!"
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
maybe the Q continuum is having a pre friday night scrap?
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
"The explosion, known to its chums as GRB 080916C, occurred on 15 September in the constellation Carina at a distance of 12.2 billion light-years from Earth."
So was that 15th September 12,199,997,991 BC?
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
If this was 12.2 billion light years distant, then this happened roughly 1 billion years after Big Bang 1.0? Might this have been God's after-dinner belch?
I mean, assuming this is in the right direction, couldn't this have been a follow up Bangette?
(Mods, we need a an icon for "clueless git" or somesuch. Essentially, the antithesis of the egghead)
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:18 GMT
18 billion light-years away, and stuff moving at no less than .999999c, so I guess that means we should start feeling the particle flux in about 18,000 years.
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:45 GMT
more like a bad 1/8th of a second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 14:45 GMT
'The explosion, known to its chums as GRB 080916C, occurred on 15 September in the constellation Carina at a distance of 12.2 billion light-years from Earth'
Becomes:
'The explosion, known to its chums as GRB 080916C, was detected on 15 September in the constellation Carina at a distance of 12.2 billion light-years from Earth'
(even I know it occured 12.2 Billion Years ago)
Posted Friday 20th February 2009 20:56 GMT
An awesome analysis all round there old boy. Any thoughts on the economy or Jade Goody?
I think you may be joking but just in case, I'm replacing your geek squad icon with something more appropriate. It's harsh, but fair.
Posted Sunday 22nd February 2009 21:42 GMT
> 99.9999 per cent of the speed of light
That was a close encounter with c, wasn't it? Any quicker, and it would have falsified the Theory of Relativity.
Posted Sunday 22nd February 2009 21:57 GMT
It was just Jehova trying to fool us again! Everyone knows that He made the universe 6,000 years ago.
Paris - Jehova made her, too, just to prove that He is a Kind and Merciful God.
Posted Monday 23rd February 2009 16:21 GMT
Hi, I build/sold the computer ground station for this telescope.... Glad to see they are working! I kid you not, but I must remain anonymous.
Posted Thursday 26th February 2009 21:59 GMT
since event was 12.2 billion light years away & estimated to to equal outflow, isn't there place in opposite direction 12.2 billion light years from event just recieveing gama rays? or that Universe is at least 24.4 billion light years in /Diameter.
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