When’s that next gamma-ray blast gonna come, already?

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-06-13

Summary:

Phil Plait writes: Earth May Have Been Hit by a Cosmic Blast 1200 Years Ago . . . this is nothing to panic about. If it happened at all, it was a long time ago, and unlikely to happen again for hundreds of thousands of years. This left me confused. If it really did happen [...]

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Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/06/13/whens-that-next-gamma-ray-blast-gonna-come-already/

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Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

06/13/2013, 12:50

Date published:

06/13/2013, 09:08