Small reminder we all could go at any time

Post by **Freakaloin** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:35 pm

old...

Post by **Tsakali_** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:49 pm

it's already on the way noobs

Post by **Freakaloin** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:50 pm

yeah...only 440 million more years for it to get here...

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:52 pm

wouldnt that be weird. we'll never know what hit us

Post by **Tsakali_** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:56 pm

yes we would, big things take alot of time, prolly enough time for us to figure out how to GTFO this deathtrap you call home, or prolly kill eachother before nature has any say-so

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:35 pm

well it could be me but i dont think gamma bursts are something one could easily predict. also its radius is so big that we prolly either need to know 200 years in advance or travel with the speed of light to actually "GTFO this deathtrap we call home" :l

Post by **Turbine** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:46 pm

Freakaloin wrote:yeah...only 440 million more years for it to get here...

It allready happened 440 million years ago. And now the light came.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:15 pm

then the uh gamma rays cum alot later?...i'm sure its nothing...

Post by **bitWISE** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:31 pm

It's funny...I watch a lot of educational television (BBC,Discovery networks,History) and the stuff on the Discovery channels always seem very apocolyptic and doomsday-ish. But a History channel documentary on the same topic is so overly confident that it sounds like we already kicked the futures ass.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:34 pm

If we all died, would anyone notice?

Post by **bitWISE** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:37 pm

SplishSplash wrote:If we all died, would anyone notice?

The mice would

Post by **Canis** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:42 pm

If we go, we're going to go with a bang...

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:44 pm

It's still much too distant to affect us noticeably, but GRBs would destroy any nearby civilization. It's difficult to concieve of any advanced civilization weathering one of these things.

Post by **Transient** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:24 am

bitWISE wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:If we all died, would anyone notice?
The mice would

Post by **eepberries** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:06 am

Freakaloin wrote:then the uh gamma rays cum alot later?...i'm sure its nothing...

Actually that's a good question. I think they're talking about the gamma rays having already hit, but I'm not quite sure.

How fast do gamma rays travel?

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:07 am

MKJ wrote:well it could be me but i dont think gamma bursts are something one could easily predict. also its radius is so big that we prolly either need to know 200 years in advance or travel with the speed of light to actually "GTFO this deathtrap we call home" :l

since it happened 440 million light years away i don't see a problem, assuming of course we have the energy required to GTFO and aren't relying on windmills and the longer-lasting lightbulb

Post by **eepberries** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:21 am

riddla wrote:which is why I said if it happened in our 'neighborhood', e.g. close enough by. Since the burst would travel with the light, we'd never even know.

Well that answers that question.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:53 am

Massive Quasars wrote:It's still much too distant to affect us noticeably, but GRBs would destroy any nearby civilization. It's difficult to concieve of any advanced civilization weathering one of these things.

Yes bloody difficult I'd recon. It would be hard to out run it at any civilization level :icon26:

I suppose it is natures' way of saying 'enough is enough', but it is a hell of a way to clean out the cupboard.

Post by **Tsakali_** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:58 am

i'm so gonna go out my box on this one, but maybe just maybe, if a civilization can actualy master the art of faster than light travel or some type of portal enter/exit travel, they could set up a type of early warning grid with sensors enclosing the general circumference of a few light years in diameter around the point of interest (namely their home planet) and those sensors send a portal like signal back home they will have ample time to prepare an escape.
Well the means of the actual escape will have to be already at their disposal, but no need to save every single fucker, but just enough to ensure their survival as a species. After all we're talking about raw survival here, not just being able to get back in time for your favorite TV show.

Post by **Grudge** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:59 am

eepberries wrote:How fast do gamma rays travel?

lol

Post by **eepberries** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:39 pm

Grudge wrote:
eepberries wrote:How fast do gamma rays travel?
lol

What's so funny about asking a question about a subject I wasn't quite clear on?

Post by **stocktroll** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:29 pm

who cares?
once i die the entire world can get destroyed after me for all i care

Post by **Tsakali_** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:38 pm

stocktroll wrote:who cares?
once i die the entire world can get destroyed after me for all i care

pathetic

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:43 pm

stocktroll wrote:who cares?
once i die the entire world can get destroyed after me for all i care

I'd rather be the last to go.

Post by **stocktroll** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:48 pm

Survivor wrote:
stocktroll wrote:who cares?
once i die the entire world can get destroyed after me for all i care
I'd rather be the last to go.

ya so what would you do if you got a full day to live after everyone else died?