Astronomers Detect a Burst of Gravitational Waves From The Direction of Betelgeuse

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 20 JAN 2020 | EVAN GOUGH, UNIVERSE TODAY

[Rebelbase]

“Betelgeuse hasn’t gone supernova and won’t for a long time.”

If it takes the light from such an event 640 years to reach earth how can we be so sure?

[Red Badger]

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.............

[Red Badger]

What if it blew up 639 year sago?...............

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This is the guy I think about when you talk about Betelgeuse.

'Twas Ford Prefect who was from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. But since he and Zaphod share three of the same mothers, they could be from the same neighborhood.

[equaviator]

"Astronomers Detect a Burst of Gravitational Waves From The Direction of Betelgeuse"

Break out the anti-gravity boots and hope that the Velcro holds.

[ASOC]

I often wonder how all of this tax-payer funded “science” is of nay direct benefit to me - the taxpayer.

Gravity waves? Spare me.

[Red Badger]

Once it goes nova, taxes will be our least worry..................

[catnipman]

“In fact, the detection of the burst waves may not have even been real. “

hmmmm. possible fake gravitational waves ... i guess the science must not be settled then ...

[Red Badger]

Since we have only one detector, we can’t correlate the measurements............which are extremely small to begin with......................

[Robert A Cook PE]

He did it!
He did it!
He did it!

Oh noes!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wasn’t that the ship that blew up at Trafalgar?

[Verginius Rufus]

Betelgeuse is Orion's right armpit (assuming Orion is facing towards earth).

No connection with Betelbailey.

[Tucker39]

Setting our clocks by what we view coming from Betelgeuse? How many thousand light years away is it? That star could already have winked out, but Earth wouldn’t know about it for “how many” thousands of years? At least with OUR Sun, aka “Old Sol”, if something changes up THERE, we’ll know about it in about 8 minutes.

[Red Badger]

642.5 light years,.......... 😮

[Red Badger]

And it’s larger than the size of Mars orbit.

It’s the only star we can actually see as a round object, and not just a point of light...............

[Tucker39]

Oooops! I shoulda looked it up first. They don’t know the exact distance. But “Big B” is estimated to be only between 600 & 700 light years from Earth. Prolly none of us folks will be here to see how it ends up. But, then there’s Salvation in Christ, and eternal life etc. So those who belong to the Lord will indeed see the whole show; prolly from an even better viewing stand. Praise Jesus.

[Red Badger]

Prolly none of us folks will be here to see how it ends up.

What if it blew up 639 years ago?................😯

[Tucker39]

In that case, some of us might be around when those light beams arrive here. Maybe tomorrow night. 😇

[Rebelbase]

Hope so! We’ll have a nice night sky show later this year. Hopefully the night Trump is re-elected.