system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How could we protect ourselves in the case of a gamma-ray burst?

In the case we detected a gamma-ray burst coming to us from the explosion of an hypernova.
How much time would we have from the moment we detect it?
What would be enough to protect ourselves from the massive amount of radiation? (from the particular small scale point of view and from the government point of view)
gpt
Unfortunately the gamma rays, being just an electromagnetic wave, travel at the speed of light. We wouldn't detect it until they arrived and killed us.

Possibly at some intermediate distance, ie not too close for everyone to die not too far away for everyone to live, you might survive by being on the opposite side of the earth to the burst.