-=> RICHARD SMITH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 ->  RS> You guys wade through this on a regular basis?  Man, we need to check
 ->  RS> the e coli count in here or something . . .

 -> Why are you planning on eating your computer without
 -> adaquately cooking it?

 RS> I _do_ like to get my teeth into an argument, but no.  Just realizing
 RS> out loud that I need antiseptics around here . . .

 RS> Still nowhere near as bad as this place three years or so ago, though.

 -> My thoughts on the matter is it's well overdue time to add
 -> some clorine to the gene pool.

 RS> Chlorine's nice every so often.  Beats sterilization by fire.  
 
 Oh I don't know about that. Early on in the developement
 of satellites the DoD employed gamma ray detecting satellites
 to check for cheating on the above ground nuclear test
 ban but instead caught the signature gamma ray bursts they were
 looking for coming from space.
 Recent work has revealed the source of these bursts to
 be the result of "hypernovas" which put out enough radiation
 to sterilize the entire galaxy in which one occurs.
 Should one occur in the Milky Way galaxy we'd be sterilized by fire 
 before the radiation killed us.
 The discovery of the incredible power of hypernovas was
 revealed when a new satellite designed to detect and 
 reveal the location of a hypernova event in time for 
 astonomers to point their telescopes at that location in time
 to detect the afterglow of such an event.
 Once optical telescopes found one the distance and thus energy
 output of the event could be calculated using the inverse square law
 regarding energy and distance.
 No-one had imagined such a intense event was possible except one 
 physicist who was considered a kook until empiracal evidence
 became available such events were occuring at such enormoius distances.

 RS> I am a
 RS> big fan of the Darwin Awards.

 I read them regularly myself.
 
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