Send Al up there to fix it.
By God, as long as there is a penny of wealth left to transfer we WILL be safe from this calamity, I just know it!
BS, unless one of the poles are aimed at us, 500 light years is enough distance to be safe from a supernova
It’s Bush’s fault or maybe Rush Limbaugh’s.
I guess that would put the health care bill and the falling dollar in perspective!
I guess we don’t need to worry about conservation or climate change then, do we?
So, about 3300 LY away. Assuming a particle stream traveling at somewhat less than the speed of light as the primary destructive agent (if there are any), that gives us a few thousand years to come up with something. So, any ideas? Some kind of Dyson Sphere surrounding the Earth, or significant parts thereof? Maybe a magnetic deflector field to shunt those particles off to the side? I’m sure the techie-trekkies among us can come up with something.
Woman and Children hardest hit
That's no moon ...
So long as all democrats, commies, muslims, atheists, and assorted left wing rif raf go sizzle, I’m happy.
Well, that firms my decision up. I am leaving no full beers in the fridge tonight. Just in case.
How will we all sleep at night? Obama, start a government program to study and stop this -— now! Massive tax hikes are need this year, preferably retroactive for the last twenty years to help solve this Interstellar Global Nova Threat crisis! God Save Us All!
I’ll be damned worried about it in 3,260 years.
Good. Hopefully the whiney/emotional liberals won’t be able to handle it and will commit suicide.
The Crab Nebula is 6500 light years away. It was a supernova that while noticed in the daytime in 1731 it had no ill effects. At 3500 Light years this supernova is still too far to worry about, but it would make for a great show!
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Unfortunately, it blew up 3,259 years ago, and we will finally "see" its explosion next November.
Then will come the slower moving pieces.
The Beta Cassiopeia supernova was twice as far, roughly, and nobody on Earth was bothered much, back in 1572, except for the daytime star generating much talk.
Simesis 147 went off about 100KY ago, and was a tad closer, 3000 LY. Didn’t wipe life from Earth. Eyewitness reports are somewhat vague :)
The Vela supernova was 800 LY away! Woo hoo, if we are worried about 3200 ly distance, this one was in our lap! 10,000 BC or so, so there were people around then to take UV readings to measure ozone depletion. No fluorocarbons back then, so the readings would be uncluttered.
Vela Junior may have been closer.
The supernova remnant that’s now the Crab nebula went off 1n 1054, widely observed, and was 7000 ly away.
Supernova 185 was a big hot type 1A at only 3000 ly distance, about the same as the one coming up.
Point is, there have been supernovas in the past, some with people around, some as close as this Doom Star, and we pulled through.
I realize that back in the year 185 we did not have MSM to scare us to death with endless accounts of what the ozone layer is doing. Tune in at 11 to learn the ozone depth over YOUR town and what type of sunblock President Chelsea Clinton uses.
