[La Lydia]

That is an old Twilight Zone episode.

[ravingnutter]

They should rename the rogue star Sarah Palin ; )

[allmendream]

This star is 20,000 light years away.

It exploded 20,000 or so years ago.

How could it live and die and leave behind a record of its existence that never was, if the Earth and Universe are only six thousand years old?

Assuming that God doesn't lie, it couldn't.

[Jaxter]

I think I’m gonna hold off full panic mode until they find an example of this happening to a main sequence, G type star.

[Darksheare]

Anyone else notice the swirl to the debris?
One or both stars in the collision tossed off their outer shells as they collided.

[dainbramaged]

Does anyone remember that 1956 film shown in schools called “Our Mister Sun”?

[joethedrummer]

Oh my gosh! We’re all gunna die! We’re ALL gunna DIE!!!

[Allegra]

DOOM!!

[Leo Farnsworth]

A Newsweek cover article in the future:

With the Copenhagen accords signed, Al Gore assured all earthlings: “A scenario like this will never happen to our sun; we can control it (the sun) easily with our new tax revenue a carbon offsets. The earth will never warm or cool again...”

Later in the year a small article in the same Newsweek magazine will mention that Al Gore was taken away in a straight jacket to ‘Happydale’ when the sun refused to respond to his ‘Earthly’ thoughts.

[Big Giant Head]

Now, eight years later astronomers remain puzzled as to what happened to the star, called V838 Monocerotis, and are still doing interstellar forensic detective work.

Yack. Is there a shot for that? Is it contagious? It sounds fatal, and apparently, is.

[dog breath]

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

or fester like a sore -

and then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over-

Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

Like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Our planet would be like that poem, A Raisin in the Sun, by Langston Hughes

[Joan Kerrey]

can anyone recommend the appropriate sun block product for this event?

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