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To: The KG9 Kid
If it is 650 light-years away and it exploded 640 years ago, we're in trouble. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty about its distance--I have an old World Almanac which says 520 light-years (so we are seeing the light that left there in 1492) but there are lower and higher guesses.

It's supposed to explode within the next million years. So I won't put it high on my things to worry about. As Louis XV would have said, Apres moi, le poulet frit.

12 posted on 02/27/2012 5:51:08 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
"If it is 650 light-years away and it exploded 640 years ago, we're in trouble."

If it is 650 light-years away and it exploded 649 years ago, the Mayans were right.

13 posted on 02/27/2012 6:10:46 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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