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A supernova is a big explosion, but I don't think it's quite 'galaxy sanitizing' big.
by mhurron 13y ago
A supernova is a big explosion, but I don't think it's quite 'galaxy sanitizing' big.
- Tossrock 13y agoAn appellation reserved for gamma ray bursts (and only within the emission cones).
- gbhn 13y agohttp://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ A nearby supernova would definitely be sterilizing to the kind of life found on Earth, and to a lot of other imaginable forms. Of course, "nearby" in astronomical terms is sometimes unintuitive. :-)