I think what he said was it could explode between now and a million tears from now.
Cr@ppy reporting.
Sensationalized reporting - it grabs readership.
When we were house-hunting in a new town a few years ago I spotted a newspaper headline that blared: "Local Murders Up 100% Last Year." Alarmed, I immediately dropped money into the machine only to learn there had been one murder, 100% more than the previous year when there were none. But the sensational headline sold at least one paper.
OMG that's a long time!
"Leave Betelgeuse alone!"