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Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD
The Bad Astronomer writes "Studies of carbon-14 in Japanese trees and beryllium-10 in Antarctic ice indicate the Earth was hit by a big radiation blast in 775 AD. Although very rare, occurring only once every million years or so, the most likely culprit is a gamma-ray burst, a cosmic explosion accompanying the birth of a black hole. While a big solar flare is still in the running, a GRB from merging neutron stars produces the ratio of carbon and beryllium observed, and also can explain why no bright explosion was seen at the time, and no supernova remnant is seen now."
became ye olde incredible hulke...
But you not like earth when EARTH ANGRY! RAAWWWRR
Did we get struck twice in 775? I bet samzenpus knows.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/04/1147201/what-struck-earth-in-775
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
They were really the Glow-In-The-Dark Ages.
It killed off all the creatures that only lived back then - dragons, elves, fairies, witches and the like.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
A tree older than the world? That must be the one Eve picked the fruit from!
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I would still call it an article if it just contained the word "the".
Definitely.
The enemies of Democracy are
Specifically... the risk of crashing into solid matter that doesn't emit or reflect light.
I see that you too own a black lab that sleeps between the bed and the bathroom...
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