{"id":38608,"date":"2023-04-17T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38608"},"modified":"2023-04-17T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:43:03","slug":"ok-thats-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/17\/ok-thats-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, That&#8217;s Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunglasses bright?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably the brightest event to hit Earth since human civilisation began,\u201d says [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/physics\/people\/faculty\/burns_e.php\">Eric Burns<\/a>\u00a0at Louisiana State University]. \u201cThe energy of this thing is so extreme that if you took the entire sun and you converted all of it into pure energy, it still wouldn\u2019t match this event \u2013 there\u2019s just nothing comparable.\u201d<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2366440-the-most-powerful-space-explosion-ever-seen-keeps-baffling-astronomers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em>Leah Crane<\/em>, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (8 April 2023, paywall)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes me wonder. About a lot of things. Like, why bother with regrets when <em>everyone<\/em> would go away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunglasses bright? \u201cIt\u2019s probably the brightest event to hit Earth since human civilisation began,\u201d says [Eric Burns\u00a0at Louisiana State University]. \u201cThe energy of this thing is so extreme that if you took the entire sun and you converted all of it into pure energy, it still wouldn\u2019t match this event \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/17\/ok-thats-bright\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38609,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions\/38609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}