"Betelgeuse might go up tonight, or it might not be for 100,000 years. We're just not sure."
Whew! I'm glad that's settled. I was worried......
To: Red Badger
We would not find out until it was too late.Betelgeuse is 640 light years away. The light we are seeing came from Betelgeuse 640 years ago. The light we are see from the sun came 7 minutes in the past.
To: Red Badger
3 posted on
01/22/2011 9:04:11 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: Red Badger
“Huh. Good to know.”
7 posted on
01/22/2011 9:07:33 PM PST by
RichInOC
("Daaaaaaaaaay-o! Day-ay-ay-o! Daylight come and me wan' go hooooooome...")
To: Red Badger
Has it been growing brighter by the day recently? By this change in brightness are they thinking that it did indeed explode 641 years ago? I care, but I just don’t have the time to read the damn article.
9 posted on
01/22/2011 9:12:51 PM PST by
TBall
To: Red Badger
Anybody still lookin for a good deal on a drum of 2000 spf Coppertone.
10 posted on
01/22/2011 9:13:31 PM PST by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: Red Badger
Supernova explosions are probably the most violent events in the universe. There is enough dust to create 10,000 earths.Because supernovae are relatively rare events within a galaxy, occurring about once every 50 years in the Milky Way
To: Red Badger
The only one that can possibly know whether a star will "explode" is maybe Prof. Irwin Cory..
12 posted on
01/22/2011 9:16:03 PM PST by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: Red Badger
Betelgeuse is BIG. If placed in our solar system it would be as large as Mars’ orbit around the Sun. Think about that for a minute...
I heard that Betelgeuse was the arabic word for Armpit, as the star is the armpit of Orion. Anybody know if that is true?
16 posted on
01/22/2011 9:19:16 PM PST by
Loud Mime
(If you don't believe in God, you will believe in government. Choose your "G")
To: Red Badger; Salamander; Allegra; Markos33; Slings and Arrows
Betelgeuse may not be ready to explode, but the same cannot be necessarily said for the penguin on top of your television set .....
19 posted on
01/22/2011 9:23:12 PM PST by
shibumi
(I am the Astro-Creep, demolition style an American Freak!)
To: Red Badger
SS Supernova
25 posted on
01/22/2011 9:37:31 PM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Red Badger
I’m torn.
I’d love to see it...but not in 3D.
29 posted on
01/22/2011 9:41:45 PM PST by
bannie
(( ))
To: Red Badger
Betelgeuse 'not likely to explode in 2012'Well, who thought it would!?
37 posted on
01/22/2011 9:55:46 PM PST by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Red Badger
The story quoted a physics lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Brad Carter, who predicted that when Betelgeuse blows, night time will turn to day for several weeks on Earth“This is the final hurrah for the star,” Dr Carter told www.news.com.au.
Now yah done it! Yah said it three times yah mo-ron!
38 posted on
01/22/2011 9:58:44 PM PST by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Red Badger
Don’t forget... we’re looking back in time. The light we see came to us thousands or millions of years ago. We don’t see the universe as it existed now but at a particular point in time long before man arrived on the earth.
41 posted on
01/22/2011 10:03:07 PM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Red Badger
Ford Prefect will not be amused if it happens...
:-P
49 posted on
01/22/2011 10:12:20 PM PST by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: Red Badger
Dang it! I had planned everything around this star exploding. Now I must rearrange my entire schedule.
55 posted on
01/22/2011 10:18:13 PM PST by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Red Badger
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!
78 posted on
01/23/2011 6:48:58 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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