On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

If in visible light, the smallest starship laser pulse from a parsec
away could outshine Venus at its brightest, with a flash bright enough
to leave an afterimage . . .

. . . so remember to offset your jump emergence by a few degrees, so you don't come out in line with the "distress beacon" (assuming it's still running after several years) and get inadvertently blasted. :)

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.