Re: Metals protect Milky Way from gamma-ray bursts

On a sunny day (Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:59:09 GMT) it happened Sam Wormley
<swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in <hMY1g.110067$oL.57446@attbi_s71>:

Metals protect Milky Way from gamma-ray bursts (Apr 20)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/9

Do you lie awake at night worrying that life on Earth might one day be
destroyed by a blast of gamma radiation from space? Then don't, because
a team of astronomers in the US has calculated that the probability of
such an event occurring in our galaxy is virtually zero.

And they calculated virtual zero for Tjernobyl, Long Iland, several subs too.

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