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To: Red Badger

None of us will be alive to see the light from that supernova arrive here but it sure would be something to see.


40 posted on 01/20/2020 12:45:28 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The GOP never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
There's no exact number, but it's estimated that Betelgeuse won't go supernova for another 100,000 years....

These are the same people who tell us that Global Climate Change will kill us all before the next century.............

42 posted on 01/20/2020 12:48:49 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"None of us will be alive to see the light from that supernova arrive here"

It's so far away we are seeing it as it was. It takes 724 years for light to travel that distance. If it went supernova 723 years and ten months ago we will see it in the sky in 2 months.

71 posted on 01/20/2020 4:23:20 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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