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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 01/05/2010 5:34:26 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A STAR primed to explode in a blast that could wipe out the Earth was revealed by astronomers yesterday.
It will self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT.
New studies show the star, called T Pyxidis, is much closer than previously thought at 3,260 light-years away - a short hop in galactic terms.
So the blast from the thermonuclear explosion could strip away our ozone layer that keeps out deadly space radiation. Life on Earth would then be frazzled.
The doomsday scenario was described yesterday by astronomers from Villanova University, Philadelphia, US.
They said the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite has shown them that T Pyxidis is really two stars, one called a white dwarf that is sucking in gas and steadily growing. When it reaches a critical mass it will blow itself to pieces.
It will become as bright as all the other stars in the galaxy put together and shine like a beacon halfway across the universe.
The experts said the Hubble space telescope has photographed the star gearing up for its big bang with a series of smaller blasts or "burps", called novas.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Maybe what a Dyson Sphere should look like?
Might have to give Lucas or someone else some credit here?
Maybe what a Dyson Sphere should look like?
Might have to give Lucas or someone else some credit here?
Stupid 3X post
Unless it did its explosive thing 3,259 years ago. LOL!
Good. Hopefully the whiney/emotional liberals won’t be able to handle it and will commit suicide.
The Crab Nebula is 6500 light years away. It was a supernova that while noticed in the daytime in 1731 it had no ill effects. At 3500 Light years this supernova is still too far to worry about, but it would make for a great show!
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Unnhh. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the light reaching earth from there is 3200+years old already. By definition it could have exploded in an OMGDIZE explosion 3199 years ago and we could not see it yet, because, the light and explosion from there is still on the way here.
That being said I have other crap to worry about.
Unfortunately, it blew up 3,259 years ago, and we will finally "see" its explosion next November.
Then will come the slower moving pieces.
The Beta Cassiopeia supernova was twice as far, roughly, and nobody on Earth was bothered much, back in 1572, except for the daytime star generating much talk.
Simesis 147 went off about 100KY ago, and was a tad closer, 3000 LY. Didn’t wipe life from Earth. Eyewitness reports are somewhat vague :)
The Vela supernova was 800 LY away! Woo hoo, if we are worried about 3200 ly distance, this one was in our lap! 10,000 BC or so, so there were people around then to take UV readings to measure ozone depletion. No fluorocarbons back then, so the readings would be uncluttered.
Vela Junior may have been closer.
The supernova remnant that’s now the Crab nebula went off 1n 1054, widely observed, and was 7000 ly away.
Supernova 185 was a big hot type 1A at only 3000 ly distance, about the same as the one coming up.
Point is, there have been supernovas in the past, some with people around, some as close as this Doom Star, and we pulled through.
I realize that back in the year 185 we did not have MSM to scare us to death with endless accounts of what the ozone layer is doing. Tune in at 11 to learn the ozone depth over YOUR town and what type of sunblock President Chelsea Clinton uses.
Maybe it’s already blown up and we just don’t know it yet...
When one looks at a star 3300 LY away, one is looking at the past, 3300 years ago - so whatever process has happened so long ago in this star’s history, we will experience in our world’s future. We may have time to prepare but it is no 3300 years - the radiation (”cosmic” rays) travel quite close to or at the speed of light, and will do what they will do.
Women, Children and Minorities hardest hit.
Now that, will cause global warming.
Perhaps if we sacrifice Algore to the sun god it won't happen.
It's worth a shot.
“That’s no moon !”
Let me make this easy for everybody.
We will be wiped out on December 21, 2012.
Galactic travelers beat the speed of light here using warp drive and told the Mayans.
For at least 500 years, anyway!
On the other hand, it may have already supernova'd 499 years ago!
We must immediately repeal the ban on CFC's and start a Manhattan Project to produce ozone.
Does this mean I won’t be getting a green job?
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