RE: Static thinking

Tim Byars (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:43:13 -0700


At 8:34 AM -0700 9/30/98, "I'm not a real doofus, but I play one at a
national laborator came up with this:

>
> > ... 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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