this is what would happen if there was a gamma ray burst.?

Question

First, you would see an intensely bright light in the sky almost like another sun and you would instantly know something bad is happening. Second, the gamma rays would burn the entire ozone layer within 10 secondsand the earth would be incredibly hot with no protection. Third, your body's cells would stop reproducing and your body wold not take energy from food you eat your hair would stop growing, your fingernails would stop growing, everything would stop growing. And Forth, within day three all life would be extinct, anything that would survive would be microbacteria, but our stuctores would be the last trace that we ever existed. But the chances of this happening are incredibly small, lets just hope this doesn't happen in our lifetime!!!

Answer 1

We know it won't happen to the Sun. The Sun is not heavy enough to explode, let alone turn into a gamma ray burst.

We know it would be disastrous. It's also vanishingly unlikely to happen in the Milky Way Galaxy. So don't worry about it. If it happens, there will be nothing we can do.

The answer is: we watch the gamma ray burst from across the depths of the universe, and we learn from it.

Answer 2

That'd be for a huge gamma ray burst. In fact, the Earth experiences smaller gamma ray bursts on an almost daily basis.

Doug

Answer 3

I don't think it would happen quite that way. But we really don't have to worry anyway. A long GRB is the result of a massive stellar collapse, and we don't really have any of those supermassive stars near us. A short GRB releases less damaging radiation, and is the result of a neutron star-neutron star merger - more likely to happen nearby, but still not actually likely.

Answer 4

The damage would only happen if it was either the sun Sirius or our own Sun actually .

Answer 5

Quit scarring people.