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Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth

Posted by timothy on from the betting-that's-estimated-rather-than-measured dept.

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!"

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  1. Score 1, Redundant by EtherAlchemist · · Score: 2, Interesting


    See also from Friday - right here.

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  2. No, no, no... by Storlek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Clearly not a dupe: the first story was about the explosion, and this one's about the flash.

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  3. @ /. after being printed on newspapers by giaguara · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How come /. has so old news today? This particular one was already in the printed newspaper in Italy, La Repubblica (article). And the 6th sense thing was already printed a few days ago.

  4. Re:Um, Yeah . . . . . . by HeghmoH · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The comparison is pretty good, actually.

    Both produce large quantities of schlock. They don't care about the material, but they know that it sells. Nobody respects them, but they make a lot of money anyway.

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  5. Re:Is this the beginning of the end? by RealBorg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have already thought of creating an alternative to /. where not only comments but also story submissions get modded by the users. Current practice appears to be less than suboptimal.