I'd be happy to, although I was pretty young then... ;')
Thanks fieldmarshaldj and Utilizer.
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Posted on 06/17/2016 4:22:29 PM PDT by rickmichaels
What SPF sunblock should I buy to protect against nearby supernova explosions?
SPF 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Another reason to stock up on aluminum foil and duct tape.
No, because there was no “two million years ago.”
It was not a Chevy Nova but all those SUV’s that the cavemen like the Flintstones were driving. If the all the cavemen drove small chevy novas then they would not have gone extinct.
Good song.
Imbecile!
X 26...
Maybe. Read “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_%28Clarke_short_story%29
The final paragraph of “The Star” reveals the deepest root of the priest’s pain. Determining the exact year of the long-ago supernova and the star system’s distance from Earth, he calculated the date the emitted light from the explosion reached Earth, proving that the cataclysm that destroyed the peaceful planet was the same star that heralded the birth of Jesus. The scientist’s faith is shaken because of the apparent capriciousness of God:
Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
In all seriousness...
I read that story many, many years ago, and never forgot it. Although I posted the possibility as a tongue-in-cheek comment here, the possibility of such an occurrence has always made Me think carefully about the concept of God and how Mankind relates to Him especially how the rest of Creation is affected...
I think, many times, that the decisions of God are far beyond the ken of mere mortals, and such a discovery would not surprise Me in the slightest... and would sadden Me greatly.
Such a possibility has always been a humbling concept over the years, for someday, might we ourselves somehow be then in the position to become the source of light for the Son of God to manifest when the need arises?
Should such a discovery come about... I can well imagine someday looking into the sky upon its discovery and asking... “My Lord God... why? And why did you not give us a choice?”
The sacrifice of an entire people... is not a thing lightly done, but I, and we, are not God... and so I ask Myself time and time again: would such an action once we discovered it be something we as a people could accept as the price for our existance?
To this day, I have not been able to formulate an answer.
Cheers.
Ping for your commentary/input/opinion.
Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated, mate.
I'd be happy to, although I was pretty young then... ;')
Thanks fieldmarshaldj and Utilizer.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj and Utilizer, a nice three-fer topic!
Thanks fieldmarshaldj and Utilizer, a nice three-fer topic! I wonder if this is the same space explosion that much later sent a wad of heavier debris that snuffed the Precolumbian megafauna?
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LOL!
It was a good story, but astronomy says that stars that go supernova don’t typically live long enough for life to develop on their planets, if they have any. And they turn into giants or supergiants first, so that’s when they would “eat” any planets they have. By the time the star went supernova, the planets were long gone.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Not if the inhabitants impose a carbon-trading scheme.
Because of your replies in “Farming Invented Twice In Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals”, thought you might like to see this one.
Iron-56 becomes Iron-60 because of neutron capture in aging stars. Iron-60 exists in interstellar space in a band in our Galaxy near the supermassive black hole galactic center where stars are destroyed by its gravitation. I believe there is a process where black holes near the galactic center align with their axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the supermassive black hole galactic center. This has the effect of plowing matter, including iron-60, outward from the galactic center along the center of the galactic plane. The presence of iron-60 as described in this article corresponds to when the earth last crossed the galactic center plane.
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