[GeronL]

Oh no... NOT Beetle Juice!!

[mwilli20]

could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years

This guy sounds like a climate scientist ;-)

[knarf]

What?

No hockey stick?

Just oblivian?

[RobRoy]

>>And, according to a report yesterday, the most stunning light show in the planet’s history could happen as soon as this year. <<

I believe it is scheduled to happen in late December of 2012.

;)

[Hot Tabasco]

[cweese]

"Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, claimed yesterday that the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years."

Brad really narrows it down.

[Brett66]

claimed yesterday that the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years.

I doubt if they can pinpoint when a star goes supernova within such a relatively small time frame of a star's life.

Wouldn't a better way of saying it have been "One-in-a-million chance that Betelgeuse will go supernova this year."

[GonzoGOP]

the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years.

Yep I just love those high precision estimates. Their estimate is give or take a longer period of time than humans have been in existence.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I hope that Triffids don’t start growing on Earth, at the same time this “light show” happens! :)

[Paladin2]

"the most stunning light show in the planet’s history could happen as soon as this year. "

Sounds like it's already happened. It's just in the galactic DVR.

[IMR 4350]

Blah Blah Blah!

Aint worth a damn if we don't get the big busted space aliens to go along with it.

[cripplecreek]

the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years.

Now that's what I call wiggle room.

[Larry Lucido]

So if it blew up 639.9 million years ago, we should be seeing it right about.............now!

[Tublecane]

“The Earth could soon have a second sun, at least for a week or two.

The cosmic phenomenon will happen when one of the brightest stars in the night sky explodes into a supernova. “

I don’t get how that is supposed to be a “second sun.” The sun isn’t an especially bright star; it’s the star around which our planet revolves. Stupid article.

[dragonblustar]

When this happens, should we be worried about gamma ray exposer?

[Soothesayer]

I just wish that damn sun would detonate a little bit closer.

[bk1000]

‘The explosion will be so bright that even though the star in the Orion constellation is 640 light-years away, it will still turn night into day and appear like there are two suns in the sky for a few weeks.’

Wouldn’t that mean that if it happened tomorrow it would still be 640 years before we saw it?

[kbennkc]

I'm just trying to hold the Yellowstone Caldera down until the total eclipse of 21 Aug 17.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2017Aug21T.GIF

[Allegra]

Big deal. We have some safety lights set up around our camps that turn nighttime into day. ;-)

[Tatze]