Saturday, July 17, 2010

Cosmic X-ray blast temporarily blinded NASA satellite!

Cosmic X-ray blast temporarily blinded NASA satellite

We're all gunna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, no. Not really. But this is interesting.

The burst was so bright in X-rays it put other GRBs to shame:
slamming Swift with 143,000 X-ray photons per second,
it was 5 times brighter than the previous record holder,
and nearly 200 times as bright as a typical GRB!

1 comment:

twisty said...

This is such an interesting topic to me....

I've been watching about Coronal Mass Eruptions on Discovery Channel....

they talked about flairs in the past and that if we had one now like the 1859 (approx) one that we would be without power in some parts of the world for up to 10 years...every single electronic thing would be fried, and seeing how we've literally put all our eggs in one basket its going to be a tough slog after the event...

considering how well small disasters like oil spills are handled... we're toast...