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ReaperOfSly
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Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:10:00 -
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The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Saint Lazarus
Originally by: ReaperOfSly
The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Mass suicidal drunken sexual 7 and a half minute orgy....
sounds like a nice way to go
Except we wouldn't know about it until a few seconds before the blast wave hits. Actually we would probably be vaporised by the gamma burst that leads the blast wave by a few seconds. We wouldn't even survive to see the blast wave hit.
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:25:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Ok, Lets assume the initial blast didn't kill us.
But that's silly. It would.
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 21:13:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
also, I just thought of something. The actual explosion (Meaning the fiery ball of death and whatnot) wouldn't actually travel at the speed of light would it?
No, but very very close. Hence the physical blast wave trailing a few seconds behind the gamma burst.
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.21 13:04:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
There is no sound in space  .
Well actually there is. Space isn't pure vacuum, it has various particles floating around in it. This can actually carry sound at great speed (although attenuation is obviously awful).
Have you heard of the sun's heliopause? It's the range at which solar winds go from travelling faster than the local speed of sound to below the local speed of sound. That's generally the point beyond which you're considered to be in interstellar space. I believe Voyager 1 passed it a few years ago.
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