Re: Novas

Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:25:08 -0700


>Apparently (according to what I read in the latest thread on this subject
>in rec.arts.sf.science a year back), the neutrino shower is so intense
>that it can be deadly in the entire solar system. And the x-ray pulse is
>going at c (but delayed compared to the neutrinos), so the civilization
>will have to run very fast.

What would it be like to be killed off by a neutrino shower? You it be like
radiation sickness?