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[james_davis_nicoll]

Yesterday, astronomers spotted a gamma ray burster that was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. It was over seven billion light-years away.


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[phanatic.livejournal.com]

So it was redshifted enough to bring gammas down into the visible range?

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hey, look at that."

"What?"

"Out the window. That, up there."

"That's an airplane."

"No, no, there! see? Look. Right there!"

"Get back... you're standing over my lunch!"

"I swear that looks like a gamma ray burst. A pulse of energy so mind-shatteringly vast in scope, so hideously, monstrously gargantuan in power, it could boil the atmospheres of a million planets, snuff out suns like they were matches in a hurricane! Tell me you saw that!"

"If you get dandruff in my soup, so help me..."

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Maybe the residual gamma ray flux explains the current round of drama queenage on LJ.