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Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth
phenon writes "On December 27th scientists detected the largest cosmic blast to strike the Earth, actually altering the earths ionosphere briefly. MSNBC reports (along with Space.com), that this event happened from a magnetar 50,000 light years away from us, and if it had happened from a distance of 10 light years away, we would be talking about mass extinction here on earth. The cosmic ray blast was measured at 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts of power!"
It's so bright, we can't even look at slashdot to see if it's been mentioned already!
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First post?
Do Slashdot editors even read Slashdot?
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
/. is always behind. /. had this story days ago.
... I gotta wear shades.
My tinfoil hat is taking a real beating from all these cosmic rays!
'nuff said.
My username does not make me Apathetic. It's irony, get it?
I'll meet your dupe and raise you one inane comment.
So this happened 50,000 years ago, and it's only now being posted to SlashDot?
Gotta be a new record.
It's Bush's fault! It has to be! It's because of the SUV! Global warming! First the tsunami, now this!
Okay, after one bright flash, I could logically attribute it to random galactic physics. These things happen in our universe.
But ANOTHER flash? And this one is ALSO the brightest galactic flash ever detected to hit Earth? There is only one answer for such an incredible coincidence of two brightest galactic flashes ever--the apocalypse is coming.
I am barracading myself in a small underground shelter near a mountain in Nevada. I invite any and all Slashdotters to come join me (preferrably females) and await the end of the world. Thank God for Slashdot; without it, I would have never had this incredible cosmic warning. Amen.
...as if millions of Slashdotters cried out "dupe", and were suddenly silenced.
Jeez, editors, we'll let you off having to search through the (broken) search feature before you post your latest, greatest headline, but d'ya think you could at least take a peek at the front page? The original story's less than 7 hours old...
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
Dupe of URL, surely?
Actually, I think this dupe is what scrolled the other one off the front page.
That has to be a record.
With over 50 redundant "dupe" responses on slashdot, you'd think this story is becoming a DUPER-NOVA!
For a second there, I had thought I had a sixth sense last night about something 50,000 lightyears away not being 10 lightyears away, and not killing us. But, no, I actually did read about this just before I went to bed, and had forgotten.
"That it can reach out and tap us on the shoulder like this, reminds us that we really are linked to the cosmos," said Phil Wilkinson of IPS Australia, that country's space weather service.
First they make up this "story" about global warming and now this?!? Like we're supposed to feel some kind of link to the cosmos just because they tell us to?!? Damn activist scientists always pushing their agenda down our throats and making up terms like "cosmos" to scare us good consumers!
Slashdot needs dual-core CPUs -- one for each copy of the story.
I'll try to submit this story to slashdot right now... Just to see if they'll post it AGAIN. :)
Cmon, I can understand that duplicate stories can happen, but in the same day!!??
perception is reality
This comment is a dupe of the past ten in this thread.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Obviously light years measure distance. Time is measured in parsecs, as any Star Wars aficionado will tell you.
English is easier said than done.
Dupe of URL,
Dupe, Dupe,
Dupe of URL, Dupe, Dupe.
As I click through this whirl, Nothing can stop the Dupe of URL
And you,
you code in Perl
No one can hurt you, oh, no...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
The cosmic ray blast was measured at 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts of power! or almost the power one Pentium 4 needs.
Oh wait.
It's tragic. Laugh.