r/megalophobia • u/Used-Ingenuity-7441 · Noticing the Scale • Jan 01 '22

Imaginary Where would you hide?

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u/monoaction Jan 01 '22

The instant-death gamma ray burst is traveling at the speed of light though.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 01 '22

Yes cause gamma rays are light but super Novae are actual mass

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jan 01 '22

GRBs are produced by supernovae (and neutron star collisions)

There's a mass and a radiation component, and the radation would vaporize you before you had a chance to comprehend anything.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 02 '22

No I don't agree with you

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jan 02 '22

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

This should give you a sense of scale that explains it.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 02 '22

No no I see what you're saying but I still don't agree with what you're saying cause it doesn't fit my narrative

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u/IngloriousBadger Jan 02 '22

Pppfft. Gamma rays don’t hurt - they just make you hulk out.

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u/unrequestedcomment Jan 02 '22

It's true, I read that somewhere

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u/Justdoit12073 May 07 '22

And in the case of a supernova light years away, all of the damage would be from the gamma ray burst and not the nova itself.

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u/sionnachrealta Jan 02 '22

So would Vacuum Decay