Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Not a space drive after all

So if I'm reading these stories correctly, Scientists predicted a supernova by noting an earlier gamma-ray burst from the same direction, which seems to confirm that these bursts are all caused by supernovae.

That's amazing stuff. It kills a SF idea I had in the back of my head, that the bursts were what happens when something breaks lightspeed. Very very expensive space drive, that would be.

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