Sunday, March 23, 2008

7,500,000,000 years ago...

...a gigantic star, some forty times the size of our own Sol, blew itself apart in a titanic burst of radiation, flinging a sleet of gamma rays across the universe, and we just found out about it the other day. The mail sure does run slow in this neck of the woods.
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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn speed limit.

8:50 AM, March 23, 2008
Tam said...

If you violate it, you probably get pulled over by a black hole.

9:27 AM, March 23, 2008
Anonymous said...

Just think. If I remember right there was a comment recently that if it were to happen again today, the earth would be gone by the time it got here.

We only have about 7e9 more years left before the sun takes us out or so the astrophys's say.

9:41 AM, March 23, 2008
Matt G said...

7.5 billion light years away.
And a light year is 5.9 trillion miles.

44,250,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.

(Heh. He said "sextillion.")

11:44 AM, March 23, 2008
Tam said...

I wouldn't want to have to walk there.

11:54 AM, March 23, 2008
dave said...

The mail sure does run slow in this neck of the woods.
Hire a government to do a private-sector job....

2:46 PM, March 23, 2008
Anonymous said...

First, there was nothing.

Then it exploded.

4:55 PM, March 23, 2008
Anonymous said...

Talk about sign and wonders in the sky! This big deal will hardly get noticed but it may be another in a series of signs that Christ will soon return. Where are you going to spend eternity?

5:17 PM, March 24, 2008
staghounds said...

And THAT, folks, is why I check out the view from this porch. Might never have contemplated an event so huge that it happened so far away and I could still see it with my little eye.

Thank you, scientists, explorers, the universe, and Tamara for the little reminder.

9:18 PM, March 24, 2008
Anonymous said...

LOOKING BACK IN TIME IS GREAT DON'T YOU THANK.
AND WHO IS GOING TO SEE IT NEXT AND HOW LONG FROM NOW

11:54 PM, March 24, 2008
Anonymous said...

I've calculated this, and I'm more than certain the flash was no more than 7,499,999,999 years old.

2:04 AM, March 25, 2008
Anonymous said...

Quick, Has anyone blamed the Bush Administration yet?
Diamondback

12:17 PM, March 25, 2008

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