Betelgeuse 'not likely to explode in 2012'

News.com.australia ^ | 01-22-201 | Staff

[Salamander]

*That* pose right there is what my biker friends wanted me to recreate for photos.

Buncha weirdos.

[Salamander]

Ha.

He bought cheap property near there a long time ago in anticipation of the inter-galactic super highway.

He’s planning on building a strip mall just off exit 42.

[Salamander]

He wrote it on a shovel and hit me in the face with it.

[Salamander]

I always thought it one of their most hilariously understated and surrealistic gags....:)

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

so I cant sleep tonight and go outside and what do I see right out my front door.... Orion as bright as can be.

Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

its truly amazing how God has orchestrated the stars as validation of Him!

[shibumi]

I find the whole concept of playing tennis with a homicidal pudding named “The White Eat” to be quite Felliniesque.

[shibumi]

[Salamander]

At the very least.

[even Dada-esque]

[Ron C.]

Indeed Betelgeuse is pictured as the right armpit of Orion.

The following is a screen cut from a Stellarium display...

[Ron C.]

Actually, at the moment, Betelgeuse is 427.47 light years away.

[Ron C.]

Here's a screen-shot of loc-data for Betelgeuse data (from So CA)

[Cardhu]

Betelgeuse appears to be bad news for all those Orion slave girls

                                                      Slave Girls of Orion

The green is a little off-putting but, as they say, all cats are black at night.

[spokeshave]

Were one to pick it up and plop it directly into our solar system, replacing said Sun, the width of Betelgeuse would easily extend out to around Jupiter’s current orbit.

Well thats nice to know.

[timetostand]

So when Betelgeuse explodes Orion loses his arm pit?!!

[GRRRRR]

Does this supernova make my mass look big?

[Notary Sojac]

Just one more problem inherited by Obama from the previous administration.

[ops33]

Exactly what I was thinking. If Betelgeuse explodes in 2012 we would not see it until 2652. If we see the explosion in 2012 its because the star actually blew up 1372.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2661173/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2661523/posts

[50mm]

I hadn’t seen that sketch. LOL

Of course I spent the next hour after watching more of the same.

[50mm]

*That* pose right there is what my biker friends wanted me to recreate for photos. Buncha weirdos.

The pose looks fine to me. Of course, I'm a weirdo. I think it's because I had many *unusual* poses myself in my rebellious days.