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- sdellboy, on 02/17/2008, -2/+9Good on Alan Wells. Nice guy. You just won't like him when he's angry.
- formergthing, on 02/17/2008, -1/+7Can someone tell me where these gamma ray bursts are most concentrated? It is my understanding that high exposure to gamma rays will either turn you into a rock man, give you super stretchy limbs, make you invisible, or give you the ability to light yourself on fire and fly.
- floyd427, on 02/17/2008, -1/+6This mystery has been solved. The bursts are primarily emanating from collapsing stars forming into black holes. The Swift satellite's purpose is to focus a telescope focusing on other wavelengths to the area where the gamma rays came from so we can better observe the aftermath of such an event, in the short time which those wavelengths are still visible, (hence Swift)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_bursts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Gamma-Ray_Burst ... - ValVedRaY, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4Black holes emit gamma ray bursts as they are collapsing, this happens everyday just like black holes are born everyday... but with a universe so grand it would be rather unlikely for it not to happen.
The headline of this article is misleading, they mention nothing that we didn't already know about gamma ray bursts. - Seaborgium106, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4Something else that wasn't mentioned in either this article or any of the comments is that gamma ray bursts also occur when binary neutron stars collide. And once again, very misleading title. Also, why is an article being written and dugg about something that was news 4 years ago?
- rhkaloge, on 02/17/2008, -1/+4I spent a summer at MIT in 1998 for an astronomy program and I remember a lecture on Gamma Ray Bursts where the professor was theorizing they were the results of alien communications between galaxies. We kind of looked at him funny, but our adviser said it was as good a theory as anything and he had decent arguments behind it.
- Scynet, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2We've had plenty of TED talks here.
- SteveMax, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2They happen wherever a star that is at least 30 times as massive as the Sun dies. They are reasonably equally distributed through the universe, but they are rare (and its emission beamed) enough that we still haven't seen one in our near neighbourhood.
- JBmtk, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2Well some things aren't meant to be understood
- gnothiseauton, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1"Gamma ray bursts are occurring several times daily somewhere in the universe... These fleeting explosions are precursors to the births of black holes." So, do black holes emit several Gamma ray bursts before they are born? Or, are several black holes born everyday?
- xpose, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1If you guys like to hear about this stuff I highly recommend watching "The Universe" on the history channel. Its fantastic.
- harriman714, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1is this better than Blu-ray?
- thejesse, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1My professor for an introductory astronomy course was really into gamma-ray bursts, and anytime one was detected his cell phone would alert him and he would cancel the rest of the class and go running out to see what was going on.
He also looked exactly like Lewis from Revenge of the Nerds. - diktator279, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1pft... a fart joke?
- Owwmykneecap, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0HULK SMASH!
- Indyanna, on 02/17/2008, -2/+2Betcha he believes in evolution, too.
- warlokaz2004, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0well the new Hulk film is out in June I think...theres your bursts. Mystery solved.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -2/+1Interesting . . . thanks for the submission.
- cygnus2112, on 02/17/2008, -8/+6I had a Gamma-ray Burst a little while ago. It made my wife leave the room. The cat, too.
- BradHAWK, on 02/17/2008, -4/+0Obama-ray bursts FTW!!
wait.. time to lay off the nyquil and/or digg.. - parishilton2008, on 02/17/2008, -5/+0I don't care about this; I love the simple things; simply things which are incredibly hard for me....
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -11/+2Better check on David Banner, alias the Hulk. He may be using his Gamma Ray machine again. lol.
- thredden, on 02/17/2008, -11/+2i mean kinda cool, but man, how many lame ass science articles make it to the front page, when nothing from ted.com ever makes it? i just don't get it.
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