TRANSCRIPT · This Gamma-Ray Burst Wasn't Dim, It Was Just Misunderstood

## This Gamma-Ray Burst Wasn't Dim, It Was Just Misunderstood (Universe Today)
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-gamma-ray-burst-wasnt-dim-it-was-just-misunderstood
GRANT BRICKMAN: A gamma-ray burst looked dim in March. It turns out we were just standing in the wrong spot.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. A gamma-ray burst caught by Fermi in March looked dim, and it was not. Nova has been asking the public how they feel about that.
NOVA: Thrilled to report! The burst only looked dim because we saw it from the side. It packed one billion years of the Sun's energy into a thin beam. Thoughts?
PASSERBY: A billion years of sunshine in one beam? Finally somebody saved up.
NOVA: Bursts like this can release in seconds what our Sun makes in nearly ten billion years. Only the Big Bang is bigger. How does that sit with you?
PASSERBY: Second only to the Big Bang? Always the runner-up. I relate to that burst.
NOVA: The first ones were found by accident in the 1960s, by a satellite watching for secret nuclear weapons tests. Did you see that coming?
PASSERBY: They looked for one kind of flash and found a bigger one? That is every Monday at my office.
NOVA: Every photon that reaches us tells us something. This one just needed the right angle, and the universe stays enormous.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Dim from the side, brilliant head-on. Some dinner guests work the same way.

## Before Avengers: Doomsday, Spider-Man: No Way Home proved the best Marvel event movies put character first (GamesRadar)
https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/before-avengers-doomsday-spider-man-no-way-home-proved-the-best-marvel-event-movies-put-character-first/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Avengers: Doomsday wants to be Marvel's biggest ever, and GamesRadar says look back at No Way Home.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Marvel's Doomsday is coming, and a multiverse sounds a lot like the station's 1987 weather map: too many fronts. Vera, bring order.
DR. VERA VECTOR: GamesRadar says Avengers: Doomsday is positioned as Marvel's biggest movie ever, meant to surpass even Endgame.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Robert Downey Jr. returns as Doctor Doom, and everyone from the Fox-era X-Men to the Fantastic Four will be there.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Vera, why does the article point back to a Spider-Man film?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Because No Way Home also brought different eras of Marvel together, yet it focused strictly on Peter Parker.
DR. VERA VECTOR: It was Marvel's first blowout success after Endgame, grossing almost two billion dollars amid the COVID pandemic.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The open question is whether Doomsday can keep character first while a very large cast arrives. That is analysis, not a finding.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So the template is one person at the center, and the crowd around them. Noted.

## The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Pixel Line is open: callers have questions, and some of them are about the right story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for The Pixel Line, our viewer phone-in. The lines are open, the coffee is hot, and we have a caller from Dortmund.
PASSERBY: Hello? Is that Kratos, the one with the axe? Why is he buying a printer in Indiana?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Different Kratos, Gerald. Kratos Defense, from San Diego, bought an AMCM M 8K additive manufacturing machine for the WestGate@Crane Technology Park in Indiana.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Gerald raises a fair point about the axe, and we will be looking into the axe.
PASSERBY: Sorry, the magnets on a chip story. Does that mean my fridge magnets get smaller?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Not your fridge, as far as the report says. Fraunhofer's Microbias puts magnets, Hall sensors and signal processing on one chip, with up to 99 percent less rare earth material.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Greta, Grant, we are off in thirty seconds. One more caller, then wrap it.
PASSERBY: Rivian again! Half the call on robotaxis, and the R2 gets crumbs. I have been saying it for years.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Verge says nearly half the hourlong call was hands-free driving, chips and robotaxis. Customers get hands-free in 2027, Uber robotaxis are planned for 2028.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, Walt. Lines stay open, and Gerald, the axe is on our list.

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