A supernova or hypernova are definite possibilities

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A supernova or hypernova are definite possibilities

New Age Vapors — 9/6/2007 12:44:20 PM (archived)

The radiation from a nearby one of those would end life on Earth quite quickly.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/20may99.html

Keep an eye on Betelgeuse, a red supergiant sun a mere 472 light years
away located in Orion. Some winter we may get a new Star....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

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The World Without Us - New Age Vapors - 9/4/2007 4:39:57 PM
- re: The World Without Us - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2007 5:02:44 AM
  - Not likely either. - TB - 9/6/2007 5:22:48 AM
    - re: Not likely either. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2007 5:34:10 AM
      - A supernova or hypernova are definite possibilities - New Age Vapors - 9/6/2007 12:44:20 PM
- Me, I like Syd Mead's view of the future. - TB - 9/5/2007 3:34:39 AM
  - Been there, done that. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2007 4:15:13 AM
  - Did you ever read Meg's 1990? - ER - 9/5/2007 3:48:24 PM
    - We had a thread a while back on something like this. - TB - 9/5/2007 5:31:46 PM
      - The Late, Great 20th Century - ER - 9/5/2007 5:58:07 PM
  - So the future will be... - New Age Vapors - 9/5/2007 2:26:55 PM
    - What'll it be? The Jetsons, or Blade Runner? - ER - 9/5/2007 2:35:36 PM
      - Not Blade Runner - TB - 9/5/2007 3:07:22 PM
        
        re: Not Blade Runner - ER - 9/5/2007 3:14:43 PM
        
        Dang, ER - McFly - 9/5/2007 3:20:55 PM
        
        It works both ways... - ER - 9/5/2007 5:02:46 PM
- Is that what passes for environmentalist erotica nowadays? - Lee - 9/5/2007 3:25:22 AM
  - Isn't anybody allowed to think, reason and extrapolate anymore? - Raoul - 9/5/2007 5:39:55 AM
    - Not if it threatens neconservative entrepreneurial fantasies. - ER - 9/5/2007 12:50:40 PM
      - I've read it. - TB - 9/5/2007 3:19:42 PM
        
        Whoops. Syntax error. - TB - 9/5/2007 3:24:08 PM
        
        Don't worry, technology will always likely make a comeback - New Age Vapors - 9/5/2007 4:17:04 PM
  - To be fair... - TB - 9/5/2007 3:36:28 AM
    - re: To be fair... - Jody - 9/5/2007 11:16:30 AM
    - It is an interesting question... - ARRELL - 9/5/2007 10:27:42 AM
      - Blood on the tracks - ER - 9/5/2007 2:32:14 PM
- re: The World Without Us - Raoul - 9/4/2007 5:49:45 PM
  - re: The World Without Us - Marcia - 9/5/2007 3:25:05 AM

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