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All it takes is for a Magnetar to have a hiccup and it could sterilize an entire galaxy. When we take numbers and probabilities in consideration it's good to a
by elorant 3y ago
All it takes is for a Magnetar to have a hiccup and it could sterilize an entire galaxy.
When we take numbers and probabilities in consideration it's good to also note how many hostile to life events can occur on a cosmic scale. You have supernovas, gamma ray bursts, black holes, neutron stars, magnetars, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and a host of other shit we don’t even now about that could destroy life at any stage.
- cthalupa 3y ago> All it takes is for a Magnetar to have a hiccup and it could sterilize an entire galaxy. There are tens of millions of magnetars in the milky way and we can and do observe their "hiccups" - we've traded a multitude of GRBs back to stars we believe to be magnetars. They do not have anywhere near enough energy to sterilize an entire galaxy.