Well we only have 8000 years to figure out what we should do. Course it may have gone nova 7999 years ago and we won’t know about it till next year. In any case there isn’t anything we can do anyway.
“there isn’t anything we can do anyway.”
We could sacrifice Al Gore to the gods.
“In any case there isn’t anything we can do anyway.”
Like so many other unknowns, we can at least busy ourselves with worrying about it.
“In any case there isn’t anything we can do anyway.”
We could build this fence. We’ll have the materials the U.S. government has accumulated for the fence they aren’t going to build between the U.S. and Mexico.
Actually, that's not true. Gamma ray bursts travel at the speed of light, so the moment we see the supernova, it'll just be scant seconds afterward that the gamma ray burst will strike. Provided, of course, that one of the supernova's poles are pointed precisely at Earth's location in the Terran orbit.
Considering the movement of our planet along its orbit and the positioning of the remote star, it's going to be like two speeding trains moving at high speeds at opposite ends of the American continent; one train firing a stationary gun to hit a moving target on the other train. The target might be hit, but the odds of it happening are exceedingly remote.