INSATIABLE said:

XxAxX said:

what. is. wrong. with. you????

Imago said:

sayin' YOU don't have a gamma and a gampa? then WHERE did your mam and pap come from?

XxAxX said:

Imago said:

fine. i just won't post on no more of your celebrity family threads then

XxAxX said:

oh no!!!!



You're awful posts are the only things keeping my threads on page 1 some days.

Imago said:

well, okay then. you mebbe oughta start more threads about britney, 'stead of elvis. you heard her new CD yet??

XxAxX said:

I'm talking about exploding stars here--not imploding ones.

Imago said:

Aren't you really just talking about ejaculation?

Hey I saw a Gamma Ray show on last night on the History channel On Mega Disaters. It was a new one.

They said there is one Gamma Ray burst every 100 seconds some where in the Universe.

They are gonna show it again. At other times.

http://www.history.com/sh...eId=242326

Mega Disasters

Episode: Gamma Ray Burst

Friday, October 26
01:00 AM

Sunday, November 11
01:00 PM


Scientists at the University of Kansas believe gamma ray bursts were responsible for a great mass extinction on Earth 450 million years ago. The gamma rays strip away the ozone layer and generate chemical smog, producing a widespread chill that grips the Earth. It would cause food chains to collapse resulting in a prolonged worldwide famine. Also, an expected electromagnetic pulse will zap all of our electronics. Scientists predict the Earth will be able to support only 5 to 10 percent of its current population; that means close to 6 billion people will die--most by starvation. How will our modern cities hold up in the face of a previous global catastrophe?



Rating: TVPG

Running Time: 60 minutes

This whole Gamma Ray episode on The History Channel "Cable TV" is worst than the California fires,
Tsunami and shit that goes down in Florida and Texas combined.

Sometimes I wonder why they bother telling us all this stuff. I mean they repeat it over and over again every month, then they show series of all the different things that could end life as we know it on Earth. Things we can't possibly control. Then the next week they start in on Global warming and what we need to do to save the planet, it's like why bother almost.

And my behind be sitting there watching every moment of it. I think I've become desensitized years ago.

morningsong said:

good fucking point



I think I was posting this thread just to post something different, and with the morbid curiosity of whether anybody would open the thread or bother posting on it.

salty said:

OMG, where's the link!!!!???!!!!

Imago said:

http://www.history.com/sh...eId=242326

Our Danny's taking a Beginner's Astronomy Class at the local Junior College.

INSATIABLE said:

What?




There's folks in P&R who need to know the Universe is older than 7 thousand years, and that it won't die by a swarm of locusts with 7 heads or whatever!

Imago said:

Don't try. You think you can really argue with someone who believe that shit?

INSATIABLE said:

Well, if I pull the whole "Gamma Rays shoot from the eyes of God cause he's angry with the Homosexual agenda" angel.

Imago said:

why not broaden your horizons even farther?

how about a thread like "Gamma Rays Shoot From the Eyes of God Cause He's Angry With Homosexuals Who Do Not Love Birds"

XxAxX said:

We're stretching this joke out like my Aunt's meatloaf.

I’d like to talk about Gamma Ray bursts real quick yall.


But before I do, let me just recount what happens when a star dies. We’ll disregard red dwarves as those stars will actually outlive the universe as we know it as each of those motherfuckers burn through their hydrogen so slowly, there is no red dwarf star in existence that is even remotely done with its infancy.

Anyways, a star the mass of our sun, which is an average sized yellow star will take about 10 billion years to burn through it’s hydrogen fuel. What it’s doing right now as we speak is fusing hydrogen atoms into denser helium atoms. However, once it gets to the point where it only has helium left, in order to fuse that into carbon, it must then heat up 10 times hotter than it’s current temperature (gravity attempting to crush the star will supply this heat), causing it to swell, and eventually burn away the oceans of the earth. If we’re lucky, life on earth will die that way. Once the sun has burned through it’s helium, which will only take 100 million years, it will attempt to fuse carbon into oxygen and heavier elements, but it simply wont have the mass to do so. In short it will be kept in it’s current state first by electrons repelling each other, then by Nutrons (I believe).

But the real action starts with larger stars, the size of 10 solar masses. Once they’ve exhausted their hydrogen, then helium, they have enough mass and weight to actually fuse carbon into heavier elements. The problem is that eventually the stars try to fuse iron, and since that process actually uses more energy than it expels through fusion, the star collapses in on itself.
The explosion of such an event is known as a supernova of course, but the during the collapsing of the star, two extremely bright beams of light shoot from either end of it. Its kind of like poking a pen through the middle hole in a compact disk.

These beams of light are known as Gamma Ray bursts, and they are the most luminous events since the big bang. Anything within 1000 light years of the beam will be in it’s path of destruction. In the short few seconds that a gamma ray burst lives, it will emit more energy and radiation than the sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifetime.

If a gamma ray bursts were to hit the earth, and the likeliness of that happening would be about once in the earth’s entire lifetime, the gamma ray burst would come without warning. This of course is because the radiation is being emitted from the newly collapsing blackhole at the speed of light, not allowing any time for warning.

The ferocity of such an event 500 light years away would be likened to standing within’ 1 mile from the Hiroshima explosion, any where on that side earth that receives the ray. Though lasting only a few seconds to a few short minutes, it would cook everything in the hemisphere that faces it immediately, burning up half the ozone layer, triggering tsunamis, hurricanes, and even earthquakes. The chemical reactions with nitrogen in the atmosphere would diffuse to the other side of the planet causing very acidic rainfall and mass extinctions would ensue.

All without warning.

In 2007 the usual 3 or 4 bursts recorded per week has gone significantly up in number. Remember, these bursts are so powerful that they can be easily viewed from other galaxies (which is why scientists originally thought all the bursts were coming from within our own).



[Edited 10/26/07 13:04pm]

Imago said:

U're not making sense, it is a known fact that every person that was xposed 2 gamma rays became green-skinned behemoths

shaomi said:

I don't have a good response to this, but I think this thread deserves a second chance.

What?




There's folks in P&R who need to know [FLAME SNIP - Mach ] or whatever!