{"id":8861,"date":"2014-09-20T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8861"},"modified":"2014-09-20T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:01:53","slug":"extraterrestrial-civilizations-culled-by-grbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8861","title":{"rendered":"Extraterrestrial civilizations culled by GRBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic sterilization by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma-ray_burst\" target=\"_blank\">Galactic Gamma-Ray Bursts<\/a>\u00a0(GRB) may explain\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermi_paradox\" target=\"_blank\">Fermi Paradox<\/a>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crowlspace.com\/?p=1978\" target=\"_d\">Fermi Paradox Solved? &#8211; Crowlspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1409.2506\" target=\"_d\">[1409.2506] On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds like\u00a0a motivation to accelerate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_uploading\" target=\"_d\">mind uploading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic sterilization by Galactic Gamma-Ray Bursts\u00a0(GRB) may explain\u00a0the Fermi Paradox\u00a0: Fermi Paradox Solved? &#8211; Crowlspace [1409.2506] On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe Sounds like\u00a0a motivation to accelerate\u00a0mind uploading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science-and-technology","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2iV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2203,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2203","url_meta":{"origin":8861,"position":0},"title":"Amateur astronomer captures images of giant Gamma Ray Burst","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins captured images of the visible light from the largest gamma-ray burst ever recorded.\u00a0 GRBs are seldom bright enough to be seen with amateur telescopes but this one was especially energetic across the spectrum and for several hours. 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