mind boggling energy burst

From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 14:29:07 MDT

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    Hey all you bastards cruising around in wasteful SUV's ...

    "During the first minute after the [hypernova] explosion it emitted energy
    at a rate more than a million times the combined output of all the stars in
    the Milky Way. If you concentrated all the energy that the sun will put out
    over its entire 9 billion-year life into a tenth of a second, then you would
    have some idea of the brightness," said Michael Ashley, faculty member in
    the astrophysics and optics department at the University of New South Wales
    and a member of the ROTSE team."

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030407075127.htm

    Russell Evermore

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