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Furthest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Observed
jd writes "The SWIFT team have announced the furthest-ever observed super-massive gamma-ray burst (from 13 billion light years away). The burst was observed on the 6th of September and lasted for 3 minutes - long enough for a number of other telescopes to home in on the gigantic explosion. The distance is only barely within the reaches of the observable universe. The idea of the SWIFT telescope and follow-up observations is that they will discover both the cause of the bursts and the consequences to the star."
I feel a great disturbance in the Force (which we all know travels at the speed of light). As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Maybe it was the universe's first post, or the explosion caused by the first moderators giving the first post first -1.
Black holes are where God divides by 0. Gamma explosions are where God divides by 0.0000000000000000001 - God's accountant
Table-ized A.I.
Wow, Slashdot really dropped the ball on this one, this news is 13 billion years old.
I'm agneglectic, too lazy to care if there is a God.
Correct. For instance, the easiest way is to just cut the universe in half and count the rings.
No, but I do wish I could moderate your post (Score:420, High As A F*cking Kite).
I know /. is famous for old news--but come on, this is 13 Billion years old...
"Blah, blah, blah... Am I the only one that is sick and tired of hearing about the "age of the universe", "big bang", and "cosmic expansion"? Cosmology and Astronomy are so far from true science as to be almost laughable. I declare that there are x number of galaxies in the universe! Who is going to prove me wrong?"
No, rest assured that you're not the only one. There's a majority of dumb and uneducated people who need to mock science they never understood (or learned), and generally try to drag everyone back into the muck of mediocrity.
I assume that belittling everyone else's achievement makes them feel better about being dumb failures themselves.
And the dumber and less educated they are, the less they actually understand from that science, the more rabid they'll be in attacking it. The farther someone will be to the left of that IQ or education Gauss curve, the more they'll rant and rave about how everyone to the right is a quack and a witch-doctor spouting nonsense.
Either way, rest assured that you're not alone. You fit in that dumb and uneducated majority perfectly.
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