[KarlInOhio]

You must not have been paying much attention to the weekend web panic. Betelgeuse to go supernova this year! Two suns in the sky at once!! Gamma ray burst requires SPF 6 billion!!!

Then some of the saner voices came in and explained how far away Betelgeuse is and that it won't destroy us.

Dr. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog talks about it, along with the award winning lines "As bad as that was, it got worse when The Huffington Post weighed in, adding their own nonsense to the story," and "instead of going away, it gets picked up by that bastion of antiscience, The Huffington Post. "

[Conan the Librarian]

You are right, I hadn’t been following this.

I guess this is this years ‘Mars as big as the Moon’ story for the internet.

I don’t hold too much for Phil P. He really IS a bad astronomer. Totally bought into the whole Algore Global Warming scare.

I use to read his blog, but, he got WAY to involved with AGW and I just quit.