Gamma-ray bye-bye

I don't know why I get so fascinated by what goes on in the sky. Maybe it's the big numbers thing, Bunnyboys are always interested in big numbers.

My latest craze is for Long Gamma Ray Bursts (gamma rays are the things that jump out of nuclear explosions and melt our skin)

Lovely colour, isn't it.

These seem to be all the rage out there in space, apparently with some of them emitting over a thousand ergs of energy. Ooeeerr and wolligogs, must take quite a lot of chickens, that.

I was wondering if the birth of a blog might generate that sort of energy, but sadly not.

If one of these little bursts happened in our galaxy, it would destroy the ozone layer, remove all my grey hair and cause huge profits for sun-lotion companies. Luckily there are only 3 stars in our galaxy that are mean enough and they're busy arguing among themselves as to who's going to be the first, so it probably won't happen tonight.

Don't you get a really quite warm and fuzzy about living in a place where we are all so completely insignificant? The fact that the human race will one day be wiped out by a tiny cosmic event is something that stops me feeling so depressed. So party out tonight, peepsies, just in case we go bye-bye tomorrow.