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The galaxy won't be so quiet when this puppy finally blows: "
With a 25,000 light year distance, that 'puppy' may have
already mailed its candygram 25 millenia ago (postage was reportedly much cheaper then).
It's really only 8,000 light years away. And candygrams can't travel faster than the speed of light, so those would be arriving right about, now? I wouldn't worry about eta Carinae, though, this one is much more dangerous:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335186,00.html