From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 10:03:50 MST
>From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>You know, dealing with the "sun is mostly iron" thread, lets
>assume that our suns 'supernova' 5 billion years ago produced a
>GRB that wiped out life in a radius of x light years from the Sun.
>How big a radius would that be, and could the Fermi paradox be
>explained by intelligent spacefaring races avoiding our region,
>expecting no life to exist here due to the GRB?
I was pondering the exact same thing as I was watching the show,
but the theory got blown away by the end of the show, as it was
revealed that GRB's are not produced by supernovas ( not powerfull
enough for the distances involved) but what may be termed
hypernovas (30X+ larger). If I got it correct the result is not a
neutron start, but a black hole.
As Bart would say "Whoa Mamma!"
Brian
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