if a hypernova occured....

[phantom48]

if a hyper nova occured, it would set of an endless chain of disasters!!!!

heres the scenario.......

1.hypernova occers close enogh to wipe out the ozone....
2.the force and electric wave would set off every nuclear weapon in the world.
3.every plant and animal would die from UV rays and radiation.
4.nukes and force would start massive landslides, and shake the earth.
5.landslides cause mega-tsunami, wipes all coastal areas off the map.
6.earthquakes would set off super-volcanoes.
7.earth becomes a living hell.
8. THE END......... :yikes:

[Bigsky770]

. . .I had moved this to the proper location, in the "Armageddon threads", where you had posted this originally is ONLY intended for submitted articles based upon research materials, not for polling. All's cool. . .

Joe (Bigsky770) :vbroll:

[stewey]

I got to the second part of your scenario and already realized id be voting no.

[cjpluss]

Ahhhh!!! Why did you have to make a poll? I hate these, as they can stay at the top of the front page for months and months. The armageddon forum is particularly littered with these right now....

[dreamwhiz]

I think I know why he has this up.

Check out http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&e=3&u=/afp/astronomyspaceflare for more info

[stewey]

Good thing nothing that can cause that type of explosion is close enough to do any harm :)

[DmoneyCustoms]

A Hypernova, now this thread should be interesting lol if their would be a Hypernova occure than thats it it just does there is nothing we can do about it I voted No on the poll by the way........... :bye: :bye: :bye:

[ALIENTheorist]

I have one question WTF IS A HYPER NOVA...is it suppose to be like a million times worse than a supernova...explain than I'll vote..thanks

[dreamwhiz]

I believe they are really refering to a GRB. And if I have been reading right, a real close one would make Earth a barren rock.

[ALIENTheorist]

alrighty than thanks now I'll vote...

[tight]

if a hypernova occurs and is close enough to our ozone layer, don't you think it MIGHT just destroy the earth? there is no logical way that it could erase our ozone layer, which is shaped like a sphere (as our planet it), without liquidating the earth. the only way your theory can be correct is by surrounding the ozone layer, demolishing it, then ceasing to consume the planet.

beka

[Mezurashi]

um, it seems to me that if there were such an extreme cosmological event close enough to have those sorts of physical effects, the wavefront of high-energy heavy particles would sweep our world clean of life long before all the other stuff began to matter. I have nothing except an amateur's grasp of high-energy physics, so it is very possible I have my head up my ass. reality check?

[stewey]

It wouldn't physically destroy the earth, but it would kill everyone on it (it would boil the atmosphere). For one to be close enough to do harm, however, it would need to be like within 25 light years.

[XJINRAH]

Hypernova (pl. hypernovae) refers to an exceptionally large star that collapses at the end of its lifespan—for example, a collapsar, or a large supernova. Until the 1990s, it referred specifically to an explosion with an energy of over 100 supernovae (1046 joules); such explosions were proposed to explain the origin of exceptionally bright gamma ray bursts. An extensive sky search found several apparent hypernova remnants, but too few to support the hypothesis.[1]

After the 1990s, the term came to be used to describe the supernovae of the most massive stars, the hypergiants, which have masses from 100 to 150 times that of the Sun. Decaying 56Ni, a short-lived isotope of nickel, is believed to provide much of a hypernova's light.[2]

The radiation output of a nearby hypernova could cause serious harm to Earth, but no hypergiants have been found near Earth.[3] Some have conjectured that a hypernova may have caused a mass extinction on Earth 440 million years ago, but there is no unambiguous evidence of it.[1]

The word collapsar, short for collapsed star, is an early word for the end product of stellar gravitational collapse, a stellar-mass black hole. This word in this sense is obsolete, but it is sometimes used to refer to a specific model for the collapse of a fast-rotating star, as discussed below.

[bluenose_ian]

Not sure what Hypernova is but if you mean Supernova then my guess and 2pence worth is yes it would get very hot and strip down the solar system and much further in the Galaxy spiral arm if one was close enough, but it would also kickstart a new chain reaction in the same way some Scientists think our own solar system was born.

Im no expert just some bits ive read, cant quite remember if a super-novae actually formed our solar sysyem or it just heated it up enough to start the reaction in the Sun, or one started a reaction in the stellar nursery that started mutilple new stars?

[Mezurashi]

Not sure what Hypernova is but if you mean Supernova then my guess and 2pence worth is yes it would get very hot and strip down the solar system and much further in the Galaxy spiral arm if one was close enough, but it would also kickstart a new chain reaction in the same way some Scientists think our own solar system was born.

Im no expert just some bits ive read, cant quite remember if a super-novae actually formed our solar sysyem or it just heated it up enough to start the reaction in the Sun, or one started a reaction in the stellar nursery that started mutilple new stars?

one theory that I heard about in the late 1990's was that the Sun as we know it formed around the 'mostly iron' remnant of a previous supernova. thus although the Sun's main mass is hydrogen it also contains a lot of iron. this iron was formed as the result of the previous supernova's last bout of weird fusion (when the hydrogen and helium have been used up and the slow fusion starts creating the funky solid matter we all know and are made out of today).

anyhow, the Solar System presumably condensed out of the nebular remnants of the supernova, and thus there was a lot of iron there as well, which is why pretty much all of the 'rocky' planets have been assumed to have iron cores.

this is also supposed to be connected to why our haemoglobin is iron based, as is all the animal life on Earth.

anyways, there you go, one theory that states that the hyper-dense mostly iron leftover from a stellar death spasm 'kickstarted' our Solar System and so on.

but opinions vary as always, this is just a theory.