From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 15:51:08 MDT
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, nanowave wrote:
> "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, [snip]
Such a gosh darn friggen waste -- take a clever engineer like Spike
and I'm absolutely certain that he could figure out something extropic
to do with all that matter and energy. Mind you it did happen 2
billion years ago and spike wasn't around back then -- but still --
it seems to be a crime to waste such resources.
Interestingly -- if there is a decline in such events in close
proximity to us (i.e. more up-to-date (potentially "evolved") galaxies
that could be evidence that the ETIs are getting a handle on
managing these resources more productively.
Robert
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