Death star may pose threat to planet Earth

Death star may pose threat to planet Earth

www.news.com.au

EARTH may be staring down the barrel of one of the galaxy's most beautiful and potentially deadly objects.

A highly unstable star at the end of its life could unleash a burst of gamma-ray radiation directed straight at Earth, any time between now and the next couple of hundred thousand years.

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No warning, at any time. Not likely, but apparently possible. No one thinks anything can happen until "anything" does......

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precise - between `now` or `the next couple of hundred thousand years` - our own sun might go nova before then


but not to worry i have a friend called luke who`s actually quite handy to have around death star`s . with his good mate of long, long time ago oriental descent called Han.

Dang foo! that's crazy! i Knew the death star would somehow find it's way to earth and kill us all.

Still, We have many years remaining to live. So should we worry about such star at the moment or just let it be? or heck, perhaps it could happen anytime. Oh well, either way we are all dead man.

Now and the next couple of hundred thousand years is a pretty big time gap. Still kind of scary, but what can you do?

This doesnt mean much at any time a Super Nova could kill us the Gamma rays never stop or diminish. theres billions of stars in the night sky that could of blown up millions of years ago. once the gama gets here it could blow our atmosphere away.

not to mention solar astroids and other planet killers

oh no im gonna die oh no im gonna die oh no im gonna die oh no im gonna die oh ? what?..not a couple a years? , oh a couple a HUNDRED THOUSAND years,
feeewww!!! that was close!!
well back to global warming!!!


actually doesn't all it take is a single burst from the sun at any time,in our direction?

[edit on 3-3-2008 by skribal]

I don't want to hijack but this thread I did might be interesting in reference to this thread...
Origin of life on Earth due to two supernovas

Ofcourse please keep posting here

Maybe this event could lead to a new stage in life on Earth for some strange species. Maybe even for us...

[edit on 3/3/08 by flice]

Just remember that the inverse square law is on our side when it comes to distant radiation events and in the case of a supernova it's the flux of neutrinos preceding the visual explosion that pose a risk to us. If the nearest star, Proxima Centauri at 4.3 light years away, were to go supernova there'd be some risk indeed but one twice as far away would deliver 1/4 of the radiation and one 10 times as far off would deliver just 1% as much radiation.

The universe is a big place and probability is on our side here if we work out the overall frequency of observed supernovae and compare to the average distance of likely suspects. Such events may be responsible for sudden mutations of species.

Maybe it's not coincidental that the biggest ever neutrino detector is being constructed at the south pole - check out project IceCube.

[edit on 3/3/2008 by Pilgrum]

I remember seeing something like this on TV on one of my three stations ( History Channel, Discovery Channel, or National Geographic not sure which.) But they were talking about that being one of the possible death scenarios for the Earth. I don't think they were talking about our own star, but rather stars that were well off into the galaxy. Even if they did explode, it will take some time for them to get to us that's the beauty of the universe.

Either way for now where kind of safe from what I understand.

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hey random question, what's a solar asteroid? An asteroid with at atmosphere?

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hey random question, what's a solar asteroid? An asteroid with at atmosphere?

Originally posted by Tenebrous
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hey random question, what's a solar asteroid? An asteroid with at atmosphere?

My Guess is an asteroid in a solar system. If so my example would be the chunks of rock in the asteroid belt or the rocks in the kuiper belt (If some people count those as "In the solar system" that is.)

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Here's the deal -

WR104 is a mere (approx) 8,000 light years distant....

it could have already went supernova around 6000BCE ~ & that
would make the year 2012 quite exceptional & a convienient epoc ender !


instead of a short news blurb---
theres a couple of sites that are interesting about WR104->
news.softpedia.com...

www.spaceinfo.com.au...


this scenario has been verbalized for years now,
'superwave' is one hypothesis, but way before WR104 was discovered,
myself... a intellectual pigmy, put this idea out among my acquaintances,
even before the early 1970s, but i was a story-teller.




[edit on 6-3-2008 by St Udio]

I can't see worrying about something like this, when any number of things could get us between now and then. I'd be more worried about very terrestrial things that we can actually do something about then things like this that can't be stopped by anything that we yet understand.

VERY interesting, nonetheless. Starred and Flagged.

GREAT FIND!!

TheBorg