Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Threat to Life on Earth — mentioned by throwaway_yy2Di

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:37:12 GMT

What sort of existential risk is this supposed to protect against? The articles' examples are all wrong (these aren't Musk's examples): "A billion years will give us four more orbits of the Milky Way galaxy, any one of which could bring us into collision with another star, or a supernova shockwave, or the incinerating beam of a gamma ray burst. We could swing into the path of a rogue planet, one of the billions that roam our galaxy darkly, like cosmic wrecking balls. Planet Earth could be edging up to the end of an unusually fortunate run." Rogue planets are categorically not a threat to…

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Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Threat to Life on Earth — mentioned by throwaway_yy2Di