4 Small Rivers

Four Small Rivers: a chaotic ramble of notes from my travels; from my life; from my professional world; and musings on the Meaning of Life. Related website: joeinc.tv/Personal NOTE: the notes in here represent personal opinions not those of any entity I may otherwise be affiliated with (employers, customers, etc.)

Friday, February 18, 2005

Star Bright

"We have observed an object only 20 kilometers across [12 miles], on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a tenth of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years"
"For a fraction of a second in December, a dying remnant of an exploded star let out a burst of light that outshone the Milky Way's other half-trillion stars combined, astronomers announced today." Source of all this energy: an unusual neutron star, SGR 1806-20 . Use that name as a search term and you'll get the full scientific data.

Lots of superlatives in the press, 'this is the big one', a 'once-in-a-millenium experience'. Imagine if its waves had arrived one day EARLIER on Dec 26th, the day of 'the (other) big one', the monstrous tsunami. That would have really had people wondering!
|| Unknown, 10:27 PM

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