NEWS: Some Shit Blew Up in Outer Space

GEEK: Some Shit Blew Up in Outer Space

NASA scientists have recorded a strange explosion of gamma-ray-like energy from the constellation Aries, just 440 light years away.

While scientists believe that the previously-unseen type of explosion is the beginnings of a supernova, I have it on good authority that the burst was caused by an unfortunate accident involving the test run of an experimental warp-drive-enabled Intergalactic Class Cruiser out of Alpha Centauri whose guidance system mistakenly charted a course directly through a star.

maybe this was more like an intergalactic gunshot heard late at night in a bad area of compton.

2,000 seconds of gamma ray activity... i suppose that translates into a half hour of this shit. holy photon cocks.

actually. This is pretty close. A gamma ray burst could sterilize everything on the planet if it were close enough.
Although, that would take care of the neo-con problem...

It was probably just another universe being formed inside our own to displace the current one we occupy. Since the expansion of that universe will certainly occur at the speed of light, we most likely only have days left to live until this portion of the universe is displaced by a massive energy cloud.
No biggie.

We're expanding too, so maybe we have more like a week?

woo hoo the end life on earth without all the mess of a nuclear war....Nature is so neat.

the chances of all life ending NOW because of some galactic shit happening.... hmmm....

I knew the "Jump Drive" would be dangerous.

favorite headline ever.

Days? If it started 440 light years away...wouldn't it take 440 years?

right along with Mom "m Gay....And it's your fault.

Naw. It happened 440 years ago. About 1566.

People got fired for that math error. Or is it sub-atomized?

That would suck i enjoy living and porn and beer and vodka and getting laid and shooting at people. i cant do that if the planet is steril

We've been warned for years...




...Uranus is full of deadly gases.

Actually, if you estimate the odds of a catastrophic meteor strike on the earth based on observations of large meteor strikes on nearby bodies (such as the moon) over the last million years...

You have a significantly greater chance of dying from a meteor hitting the earth than you do of dying in an air disaster.

Sleep well...

the best thing about outer space is that everything outward happens in it

(anyway ... where's jodie foster when you need her?)

[Edited on Feb 25, 2006 by Norbu]

The creation of The Incredible HULK as begun

Gamma Ray? Please god, PLEASE, I'll start believing in you if I can be doused in enough of it to become the Hulk...

The Earth's atmosphere blocks out most of the gamma rays that come our way. We have to actually put up satellites just to observe that stuff.
But a nullneutron bomb would have the same effect. They were designed to kill all of the life in an area without causing too much structural damage. That way the invading army could move right in after a few weeks.


Looks like it was a supernova that caused this and is 440 million light years away from us. So that energy has been traveling for 440 million years and the source isn't even in our galaxy, let alone our neighborhood.

oh yes, the odds of everyone you knowing dying from something hitting the earth are something like 1 in a 100. But the odds of something hitting are a much greater.

what a gloomy fucking post, sorry about that

(I don't know why it put nullneutorn when it should just have been neutron)

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[Edited on Feb 25, 2006 10:41PM]

fuck!

there goes another opportunity to gain super powers

I've been telling my friends all day that I felt a great disturbance in the force...it was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. They blamed it on the three bean burritos I ate.

Fuck! There goes Alderan....

the Old Ones have returned...

interesting, especially as i was just watching something on gamma ray bursts and hypernovae just the other day...