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Beetlejuice/Betelgeuse getting attitude lately?

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    Third Temple African Astronaut
    it was really fucking bright about 7 months back and flickering like crazy
    they (Scientist) were saying it's about to go SuperNova.

    but then it all went away. no one talks about it.
    did it kill us and we're not in perpetual purgatory
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    yea, its going supernova alright. I read on CNN awhile ago that it was going to 'splode and its detonation emissions are going to wipe out all life on earth.

    and nothing significant was lost...
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    Haley Yung Blood
    In cosmology 'quick' can mean anything in the range of 100k to 1 million years.
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    Third Temple African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Haley In cosmology 'quick' can mean anything in the range of 100k to 1 million years.

    human kind is a fart in the space of an office.
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    Haley Yung Blood
    Originally posted by Third Temple human kind is a fart in the space of an office.

    I guess. If you wanna get all existential about it.
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    AngryOnion Big Wig [the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
    Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly lanced lannys longing labia, letting her larp as a little laotian ladyboy lapdancer................................ yea, its going supernova alright. I read on CNN awhile ago that it was going to 'splode and its detonation emissions are going to wipe out all life on earth.

    and nothing significant was lost…

    LOL news from CNN.
    Reminds me of this.
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    Originally posted by AngryOnion LOL news from CNN.
    Reminds me of this.

    it was pure sarcasm

    theres nothing that comes off of the commie news network that isnt pure and complete fear porn and commie propaganda
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    What did you say to me? So High I Can't Feel It
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    Spend An JHour On The Internet <'.'> Or So.
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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    Originally posted by AngryOnion LOL news from CNN.
    Reminds me of this.

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    Originally posted by aldra

    beard on beard crime
  12. #12
    Third Temple African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Haley I guess. If you wanna get all existential about it.

    Stop running around in the got damn Hallway. C and R told me
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    All stars go thru regular cycles of increased and decreased intensity. We barely understand our own sun’s cycle, who knows how it works for red hyper giants. Even if it blows up tomorrow it’s not close enough to cause any problems here, so who cares
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    If you’re gonna be afraid of esoteric cosmic phenomena, look up gamma ray bursts or better yet vacuum decay. We’d be dead before we knew it was coming.
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    Meikai Heck This Schlong
    Originally posted by Fox If you’re gonna be afraid of esoteric cosmic phenomena, look up gamma ray bursts or better yet vacuum decay. We’d be dead before we knew it was coming.

    aren't GRBs caused by supernovae? presumably that's why he's afraid of this.

    and lol only half the planet would be dead before we knew it. the other half, shielded by earth, would be left in hell to slowly (relatively speaking) perish. no? we're talking everything on the side of the planet facing the source dying, so potentially a massive hit to oxygen and food production, probably fries all our electronics, and blows away the ozone layer? something like that, iirc. our planet would straight up die.

    2203, anyway. that's your schizo powerball number for the day. that's when it's all over. is it a year? a month/day? an hour? who knows.
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    Third Temple African Astronaut
    Well if it blows up Tomorrow it blew up 4.5 years ago because it's the closest star to us which is 4.5 light years away (actually it might be the second closest and I believe without looking it up a Binary duo/duel star system)
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    Third Temple African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Meikai aren't GRBs caused by supernovae? presumably that's why he's afraid of this.

    and lol only half the planet would be dead before we knew it. the other half, shielded by earth, would be left in hell to slowly (relatively speaking) perish. no? we're talking everything on the side of the planet facing the source dying, so potentially a massive hit to oxygen and food production, probably fries all our electronics, and blows away the ozone layer? something like that, iirc. our planet would straight up die.

    2203, anyway. that's your schizo powerball number for the day. that's when it's all over. is it a year? a month/day? an hour? who knows.


    Its not going super nova but some larger mass stars do this from time to time from what Nova was saying on PBS.

    do you guys have PBS in Canada?
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
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    Originally posted by Meikai aren't GRBs caused by supernovae? presumably that's why he's afraid of this.

    I always thought they were caused by black holes merging but I just googled it apparently really big stars can do it too in some conditions. The more u know. But Betelgeuse still wouldn’t be big enough or close enough to cause a problem, and its axis isn’t pointed at earth.
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    Originally posted by Third Temple Well if it blows up Tomorrow it blew up 4.5 years ago because it's the closest star to us which is 4.5 light years away (actually it might be the second closest and I believe without looking it up a Binary duo/duel star system)

    You’re thinking of the Proxima Centauri system. Betelgeuse is several hundred light years away. And of course I meant tomorrow as in we observe it happening tomorrow it doesn’t matter when it actually happened only when it happens relative to our perspective.
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