MetaFilter posts tagged with gamma

Saturday Flash fun

boo_radley — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:40:30 -0800

Don't you know that I'm toxic? Toxic has you controlling a clean-suit wearing bomberman across destructible platform mazes in search of glowing green canisters, powerups and enemies to bomb the living bejesus out of. The chiptune soundtrack is pretty nice, too.

Beta Is SO Passe

keswick — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:02:36 -0800

Gamma is the new beta. Web 3.0 is here, via the new Flickr interface. And it's sexy.

A very large explosion

C17H19NO3 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:42:30 -0800

NASA scientists say that a large gamma ray explosion within our own galaxy may have triggered a mass extinction hundreds of millions of years ago.

There can be no escape. . .

absalom — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:10:10 -0800

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory recently detected [reg required] the largest explosion ever detected in the universe: an eruption releasing the energy of hundreds of millions of gamma ray bursts. Just to put it in perspective, a single GRB releases enough radiation to wipe out just about everything human beings would require for survival in a 1000 light year radius. (The Milky Way spans ~100,000 light years, while the United Federation of Planets spans about 8,000). Arthur C. Clarke has gone so far as suggesting that GRBs might be one of the reasons for Extra-Terrestrial silence: Gamma Ray Bursts are so large and inescapable, a single one would wipe out even an enormous galactic empire. Makes killer asteroids seem downright quaint.