You want our ecosystem destroyed? Why? It would be a slow nasty death for most of us.
Yeah, but that's not what would happen. A GRB would knock out our ozone layer. It would be UV radiation from the sun that kills us. Of course, humans would get under cover, but the oceans and much of the life on land would die. So we'd starve. Not before we fought some massive wars to steal resources from each other of course. It would be an ugly lingering death. Not exactly going out in style.
Why not? Jumping off a cliff or have you got a well-stocked bomb shelter? Still not nice to 'wish' a lingering death on the rest of humanity.
I got a muslim buddy that's gonna share his cave with me.
Meh, after watch a few hours of Fox News/CNN today, I have lost a lot of sympathy for my fellow earthlings.
Why did foxnews include jets from supermassive blackholes at galactic centers with this story? They are millions of times bigger than what we are talking about here. It's like showing an image of a thermonuclear explosion when talking about a firecracker.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335186,00.html
'Death Star' Gamma-Ray Gun Pointed Straight at Earth
(It seemed like a good picture to include.. )
Earth could be in for a neighborhood dispute with a death star, according to an Australian astronomer.
A spectacular rotating pinwheel system just down the astronomical road from Earth — 8,000 light years away — includes an unstable Wolf-Rayet star that could explode....
....There's no need to move planets just yet, however, because Tuthill is uncertain whether Earth is precisely on WR104's axis.
"We probably have hundreds of thousands of years before it blows, so we have plenty of time to come up with some answers," he said.
Tuthill's research is published in the latest edition of the Astrophysical Journal......
It could happen at any time, it may have happened 7,999 years ago and next year will be really interesting.
