>
> > ... it would be enough to power all of human civilization on Earth for a
> > billion billion years. Of course, only a tiny fraction of this energy
> > reached Earth.
>
> More discussion at:
>
> http://wwwssl.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast29sep98_1.htm
from NASA's page:
>
> Fading away
>
> Yet by the time it reached Earth, it posed no health risk - the dose was
>far less than a dental X-ray and the outer atmosphere
> absorbed all the energy.
Tim
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