The British South Africa Company equipped 250 colonial policemen with Martini-Henry rifles, Maxim guns, and a powerful electric searchlight – as well as brand-new British South Africa Company uniforms.
And once again the ports of the good ship Montecito grew out of the black Pacific and the slow steady sweep of the searchlight turned around it like the beam of a lighthouse.
We could represent the brightness of our Sun by this relatively dim LED and we can represent the brightness of the gamma-ray burst by the very very intense searchlight that's behind me, ain't that incredibly bright?
Unfortunately with this comparison, the searchlight is not nearly bright enough to represent fully the gamma-ray burst and in fact we would need a hundred billion such searchlights to have an adequate comparison.