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Tuesday, 4 November 2008

That's almost exactly how it started in the book...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6124960.stm
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Telescope catches 'monster flare'

6 comments:

  1. Oh.Little bit of a stretch. If there are things living in that star, they'll be wanting to invade the sun, not the earth, imho.

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  2. OK, just a bit maybe. It just sounded so familar

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  3. "Earth's magnetic field does a robust job of deflecting most of the high-energy particles and radiation our star will hurl at the planet in a normal flare. "
    From what I remember of physics, a magnetic field ain't gonna do much about x-rays.

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