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First thing that comes to mind is a lethal dose of neutrino radiation: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Now the tricky part is probabl

• causality0 3y ago
  One of the most interesting yet sadly least rigorous What-Ifs. He relies on simply scaling up a calculation in absorbed dose at the distance of one parsec. Neutrinos do not interact with nuclei the same way gamma rays do, and the effects of a particular amount of neutrino radiation on living tissue is unstudied and unknown. The paper he cites explicitly points this out but he ignored it.
  • raverbashing 3y ago
    Of course it doesn't, I think that was given by the relationship between neutrino count and sieverts But make no mistake, there is such a thing as a fatal amount of neutrinos. It's just that's a supernova mind boggling amount, but it exists. They do interact due to the weak force, which is more than neutrons do (and a lethal dose of those is well known)
• mhh__ 3y ago
  See also neutrino HFT
• ridgeguy 3y ago
  In the sci-fi novel Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross, death by neutrino flux from a weaponized star figures into the plot. (edit - spelling)