Who would you like to party with?
I'm sure a lot names pop into your mind, but let me tell you about who I'd like to party with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Click the link to find out who he is. I first seen him on the Daily Show. If there is someone who can get you interested in the universe it's this man. What got me hooked today, was GRB's (Gamma ray bursts) . In the life of our planet there is a 1% chance that one will hit our little house on the prairie. Do you want to know what a GRB is then go here. If not the I'll give you the short of it. When a super star goes super nova or hyper nova, and collapses upon itself to form a black hole. A tremendous amount of energy is released through the compression process. Sorta like squeezing a grape in the palm of your hand. It squirts out both sides of your hand. The energy released is 1 million trillion times the energy of our sun, and that's not a typo! To put it into terms that we can have some type of way to gage it. Every second our sun produces more energy than the human race has used since we came into being. It boggles the mind. The short of it is, that if one these Gamma Ray Bursts happened to hit they earth, it would be a quick end. A GRB moves at the speed of light, so we wouldn't see it coming. If it was within 1000 light years of our planet it would burn off our ozone and atmosphere, delivering radiation 100x the lethal dose to humans, and causing all life to start decomposing at the cellular level. Not good! NASA launched the SWIFT probe in 20 November 2004.
If you are interested in real time information the Swift mission data it can be viewed here. accessed here. It's very cool, but only interesting if you're above the level of a wife beater t-shirt. Now for Mr.Neil deGrasse Tyson I give you a couple videos that I hope you will enjoy.
posted by Army_Tanker @ 9:20 AM
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