How safe do you think you are? you got your house with good gate , a security alarm system , police is near by and government assuring safety of its citizens. Sounds pretty promising to me if you think "relatively" . But in absolute safety in earth is like a biggest joke you can think of. Our solar system may be look bigger, but compared to universe , i don't think earth can be counted as size of a virus. So this big universe there are lots of mass extinction events can be occurred in any second. today i would like to talk about a celestial event called "Gamma-ray Burst" or GRB.
Gamma-rays bursts are in very simple terms a powerful energy blasts. most of them take the shape of a simple line while there can be different dimensional type of energy blasts. So how can they occur ? when a Supernova start to collapse to form a neutron star or a black hole it emits energy blasts, When galaxies combine with each other throws energy blasts ,when supernova rotating provide energy blasts , when binary stars merging provide energy blasts or blackholes it self burst out energy blasts (Which we have no idea why) .
The Gamma ray burst typically goes between few milliseconds to several hours . The scientists expected that a couple of seconds of gamma ray bursts release energy more than our sun has ever produced. So you understand the idea of a caught to a gamma ray burst. Surviving is simple almost null.
So now the question is not how but when this going to happen right? . the good news is this is extremely rare event. few hundred years is a very big time for us , but for the universe that is not even worth mentioning. Therefor the occurrences of a gamma ray burst directed at earth is very rare. But i don't think we know at least 0% of the universe. So might as well as we earn the lucky ticket to witness it and goto heaven and bragging about it. But i hope we are not so lucky enough to enjoy that feast.
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Hi, I found some acronyms/abbreviations in this post. This is how they expand:
There are many event in universe which are unknown and mysterious for us. Universe is full of mystery. Any thing happen so let's what happen in our time.
interesting defenition of luk lol