Gamma Rays and Their Effects, a conversation

[Simonm]

A major gamma ray burst, as might come a day or two later by his speculations, could do major damage to the electrical grid and electrical equipment. Equipment encased in metal with no wires attached would have a better chance of surviving undamaged
Forgive me if I miss the joke here, but even a small Gamma ray burst hitting the earth would wipe out all life!! GRB are nothing like an electromagentic pulse, which is what you have described!

[ThePythonicCow]

Forgive me if I miss the joke here, but even a small Gamma ray burst hitting the earth would wipe out all life!!

No ... gamma ray bursts come in varying strengths, as do all electromagnetic emissions. We are constantly being radiated by gamma rays. The largest gamma ray burst recorded with modern instruments hit earth on December 26, 2004, 44.6 hours after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra in Malaysia, as Paul LaViolette describes here: Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravity Waves, and Earthquakes (http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html).

[Simonm]

Forgive me if I miss the joke here, but even a small Gamma ray burst hitting the earth would wipe out all life!!

No ... gamma ray bursts come in varying strengths, as do all electromagnetic emissions. We are constantly being radiated by gamma rays. The largest gamma ray burst recorded with modern instruments hit earth on December 26, 2004, 44.6 hours after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra in Malaysia, as Paul LaViolette describes here: Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravity Waves, and Earthquakes (http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html).

BUT, all GRB observed have originated outside of our galaxy, many light years outside. General concencus is that if one were to happen in our backyard and we were in one of the emmiting rays, then "goodnight Vienna" ;)

[ThePythonicCow]

BUT, all GRB (gamma ray bursts) observed have originated outside of our galaxy, many light years outside. General consensus is that if one were to happen in our backyard and we were in one of the emitting rays, then "goodnight Vienna" ;)
I think you just moved the goal posts on me ... and I disagree with your new claims as well.

However the disconnect between the two of us on this topic seems sufficiently large that the prospects for fruitful discussion between us on this seem to me to be unlikely.

[Simonm]

BUT, all GRB (gamma ray bursts) observed have originated outside of our galaxy, many light years outside. General consensus is that if one were to happen in our backyard and we were in one of the emitting rays, then "goodnight Vienna" ;)
I think you just moved the goal posts on me ... and I disagree with your new claims as well.

However the disconnect between the two of us on this topic seems sufficiently large that the prospects for fruitful discussion between us on this seem to me to be unlikely.

Don't worry, you need to demean yourself further on my account! However, no moving of goalposts. FACT, EVERY single GRB observed has been outside our galaxy AND I regefer the gentleman to the previous response I gave some moments ago!

[ThePythonicCow]

The prospects grow ever dimmer.

[Simonm]

The prospects grow ever dimmer.

Good good, jog on :)

[Kristin]

Forgive me if I miss the joke here, but even a small Gamma ray burst hitting the earth would wipe out all life!!

No ... gamma ray bursts come in varying strengths, as do all electromagnetic emissions. We are constantly being radiated by gamma rays. The largest gamma ray burst recorded with modern instruments hit earth on December 26, 2004, 44.6 hours after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra in Malaysia, as Paul LaViolette describes here: Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravity Waves, and Earthquakes (http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html).

BUT, all GRB observed have originated outside of our galaxy, many light years outside. General concencus is that if one were to happen in our backyard and we were in one of the emmiting rays, then "goodnight Vienna" ;)

Simon,
Would you please provide a link to this general consensus? Gamma thoughts aside, I just may remove these posts to another thread to create the space for the conversation to continue.
From the Heart,
Kristin

[DeDukshyn]

Might be a good discussion, let's get way more context from Simonm first ... ;) Then we can move this forward wherever (if) it goes. ;)

[Kristin]

This has been moved to it's own thread to help continue the conversation in the Tap on Tap off Tapper (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46312-Tap-on-Tap-off-the-tapper.&p=612441&viewfull=1#post612441) thread.

From the Heart,
Kristin

[Simonm]

Not being scientific I should just probably keep my mouth shut. From everything I have ever read and seen GRB have been heralded as the slayer of worlds. I always assumed that these were not good things. So maybe, it's just my reading matter and documentaries that are wrong in my term of "General concensus"??????

As to the other statement I made. EVERY page I have read states that EVERY GRB has been outside our galaxy, but hey, Paul seems to be up there with the best of em and obviously knows better.

Please forgive my interaction in this thread and feel free to delete as you see fit. You lot are just too clever for me!

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

please look into icecube neutrino and gamma observatory and the new detectors being built in the Mediterranean.
gamma bursts can provide directional and time sensitive information for detecting remote blasts and other nuclear effects.

i don't mean to derail the thread but hope someone here finds this interesting.

it's worth a hundred years of research to me to know what's going on down there, any suggestions?

edit: i believe gamma bursts correlate with psychic experience for people who are sensitive to cherenkov radiation.

[DeDukshyn]

Here's some info. I'm thinking GMB-gamma ray burst events may have all occurred outside our galaxy (I never checked these stats -- irrelevant for my point). But also that any nuclear reaction is the source of gamma rays. Two separate things. ;)

http://space.about.com/b/2010/03/15/source-of-gamma-rays.htm