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Maybe some people did die, it's a bit too early to tell if it killed, say ten people. It's probably very unlikely though. More importantly, there is a very wid
by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Maybe some people did die, it's a bit too early to tell if it killed, say ten people. It's probably very unlikely though.
More importantly, there is a very wide spectrum of danger between death and no effect, especially when you consider things like cancer. I assumed that was the point of the grandparent's question.
- TearsInTheRain 7y agoSounds like we should all just stay inside to be safe from the blackholes. That suits me just fine
- kabdib 7y agoX-class flares from our sun are 10E32 or so ergs. The black hole flares were roughly 10E35 ergs, about a thousand times more energetic but they are about a billion times farther away than our sun. Apply N^2 law and . . . The amount of radiation you received from the Sagittarius flares is almost indescribably tiny. Many, many orders of magnitude less than the cosmic ray background radiation that we already live with. If you didn't have a sensor pointed right at the BH, you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from the noise.