@frocharocha said:
Starquakes in real life show it's destructive capabilities. Starquakes are know to vaporize anything in light years and the shock can also destroy everything in light years
After this you quote the wikipedia definition of "Starquake" (part of it) ,but you did not post the entire definition of this "astrophysical phenomenon",and claim that "the shock can also destroy everything in light years",when the scientific definition did not say anything about physical destruction,but in fact,when it talk about "Had the event occurred within a distance of ten light years from Earth, the event could have potentially triggered a mass extinction on Earth" it actually mean it would be by massive radiation instead of physical destruction.
It's not a phenomenon bigger than a Supernova (in "destruction" diameter) as you make it look like
So,your comparison of the "Starquake" and Galactus exploding has nothing to do...at all (except,both occur in the space)
Even in the definition you just posted,it say it's radiation "It released gamma rays equivalent to 10E36 kW in intensity",i'm not a cientific, but why you translate "gamma radiation" into "the shock can also destroy everything in light years" (granted,for the living things in a planet it would mean death anyway,but the diference is:in one case,there's still the planet in the other,just ashes)
Here it's the rest of the wikipedia definition:
A starquake is an astrophysical phenomenon that occurs when the crust of a neutron star undergoes a sudden adjustment, analogous to an earthquake on Earth. A paper published in 2003 in Scientific American by Kouveliotou,Duncan & Thompson,suggests these starquakes to be the source of the giant GAMMA RAY flares that are produced approximately once per decade from soft gamme repeaters. Starquakes are thought to result from two different mechanisms. One is the huge stresses exerted on the surface of the neutron star produced by twists in the ultra-strong interior magnetic fields. A second cause is a result of spindown. As the neutron star loses angular momentum due to frame-dragging and by the bleeding off of energy due to it being a rotating magnetic dipole, the crust develops an enormous amount of stress. Once they exceed a certain amount, the shape adjusts itself to a shape closer to equilibrium, a perfect sphere. The actual change is believed to be on the order of micrometers or less, and occurs in less than a millionth of a second.
@frocharocha said:
It will depend on the star size. A single exaton of power (amount of power used to calculate those explosions) would be enough to vaporize booth Earth and the Moon, or basically destroy the sun and the rest of the solar system. That starquake was around 316 exatons.
Not only i would love to see where did you get your info (what a exaton can or can't do),how 1036 kW = 316 exatons and how it could possibly mean "vaporize Earth and Moon" = "destroy the whole Solar System"
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