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Good memories indeed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded-rattled-earths-atmosphere/ In early October 2022 a wave of high-energy radiation swept over Earth from a gamma-ray burst, one of the most singularly catastrophic and violent events the cosmos has to offer. Astronomers quickly determined its distance and found it was the closest such burst ever seen: a mere two billion light-years from Earth. Or, if you prefer, 20 billion trillion kilometers away from us, a decent fraction of the size of the observable universe. To astronomers, “close” means something different. This one was so close, cosmically speaking, that it was detected by a fleet of observatories both on and above Earth, and it is already yielding a trove of scientific treasure. But even from this immense distance in human terms, it was the brightest such event ever seen in x-rays and gamma rays, bright enough for people to spot its visible-light emission in smaller amateur telescopes, and was even able to physically affect our upper atmosphere. Despite that, this gamma-ray burst poses no danger to us. Either way, I’m glad they keep their distance. Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are intense blasts of gamma rays—the highest-energy form of light—that typically last from a fraction of a second to a few minutes in length. Gamma-ray bursts have been a puzzle to astronomers since the cold war, when the first one was discovered in the 1960s by orbiting detectors looking for nuclear weapons tested on or above Earth. More than 1,700 have been observed since then. Still, it took decades to pin any of them down well enough in the sky to observe them with more conventional telescopes and to understand better what they were. Even then it was difficult, as each GRB has idiosyncrasies, making them complicated to understand as a group. A tweet by astrophysicist Rami Mandow pointed out that lightning detectors in India and Germany showed that the way pulses of electromagnetic radiation from lightning propagated changed suddenly at the same time the GRB energy hit our planet. These pulses indicate conditions in Earth’s upper atmosphere changed, with electrons suddenly stripped from their host atoms. Gamma rays ionize atoms in this way, so it seems very likely that this blast physically affected our planet’s atmosphere, though only mildly and briefly. Still, from two billion light-years away, that’s an extraordinary phenomenon. A GRB this close means that astronomers can analyze the light they see from it in more ways than usual. Typically a burst’s light isn’t bright enough to clearly reveal details about the event that caused it. This specimen could help scientists better understand the central black hole engine that forms during a burst and the extraordinarily complex nature of the physics surrounding it. It can also tell us about the Milky Way. The Swift observatory saw expanding rings of x-ray light centered on the GRB’s location, caused by dust clouds in the Milky Way located roughly 600 to 12,000 light-years from Earth. These “light echoes” happen when light hits dust clouds just off our line of sight to the GRB—so we see them to the side, next to the bright point in the sky. Because of the short amount of extra time it takes light from the blast to reach those dust clouds and be scattered toward us, we see rings of light moving outward from the center, their expansion rate related to their distance from us. Measuring these rings allowed astronomers to determine the distances to the clouds. Although great strides have been made, especially since the 1990s when the first bursts were seen by optical telescopes and their distances were determined to be literally cosmic, there is much about them we have yet to understand. GRB 221009A is still being observed by telescopes around the world, and it may prove to be a Rosetta stone for these wildly diverse, bizarre and powerful events.”

Nanny always taught me a wager against Nina is a torched wager. Its kinda funny hearing words like fantasy land and weenie on this forum coming from a bunch of weenies also living in a fantasy land of there own.

The first “triple-dip” La Niña (three consecutive years) of the 21st century will continue to affect temperature and precipitation patterns and exacerbate drought and flooding in different parts of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization

I apologize @Ruin , Some nights I tend to over indulge in Grams old fashioned Nug top Cake . I'm sure there are more ways this could happen than I am aware of. All I am saying is there can be air aloft of a different temperature that can get mixed in , or warmer/cooler air nearby that can work its way in/out , expanding ,shrinking or simply just moving in slowly. These guys here are incredibly cold shouldered to nubes around here that don't kiss the back side , and my humor can certainly be offensively confusing when it's even humor lol . There are plenty of guys here that could have given you a great answer quickly, but because you question the computer and media gods that can't get a single synoptic detail correct a majority of the time inside 48 for a huge chunk of the US unless the pattern is locked , so you have very few friends around here . I suggest you look up mesoscale analysis on YouTube, and you will find your answers there in time.

2°F here in Fairview township. Tested out my new Tobe v3 and Tobe base layers in the snow Thursday, and cold early this morning. This morning was 7.3 miles hiked and 3.3 hours out in the dark ,cold, shitty wind. Awesome Mono suit, great morning hike to the summit, though snowless.

All 3" of snow here gone. Slight breeze just scoured out the fog in a hurry in Fairview Towinship . Fronts influence is being felt here. As some one else mentioned a week or so ago, I found the night and day late mass goose migration that occurred a week ago very interesting. Just stating things on my mind, I don't like your social media mob mentality here or anywhere for that matter, I don't need feed back form a bunch of people I don't like so none is necessary.

Around 3-3.5" in New Cumberland

If you lay in cold bathwater and take a piss it will eventually warm your feet even if you don't move, mixing to equalize

Loose as a Christmas fkn goose and ready for your steamy hot stuffing

You that man Blizz !!! Old Willy always had faith in you and your super duper magic maps . I'm a heading out to get me some of them Moose Biscuits and white mood gravy bearing down on us.