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To: smokingfrog

Although Betelgeuse is 600 light years away, that is still WAY too close for me to be comfortable with the idea of it turning supernova. That would be very bad for us.


83 posted on 06/11/2009 8:26:00 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: PapaBear3625
Outside of a Gamma-ray Burst(unlikley) we're safe.

There will be some heavy particles drift in eventually.

The ones to worry about are the close ones like Aldebaran, and any White Dwarf with an active binary feeding it within 100LY or closer.

84 posted on 06/11/2009 11:52:16 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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