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Huge red star might explode soon and next few weeks are critical [Betelgeuse update]
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| February 10, 2020
| Eric Mack
Posted on 02/10/2020 10:33:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:33:13 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It might sound like a nitpick, but whatever is happening to Betelgeuse that we are seeing today happened 700 years ago. I think it is an interesting thing to think about at least.
To: Vince Ferrer
I’d just like to see it exploding and lighting up the sky. That would be very cool.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:42:28 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
"It's Showtime!"
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:44:18 PM PST
by
Ken H
(Best SOTU ever!)
To: BenLurkin
I read where its about 700 light years away, so does that mean if it explodes, will it be 700 years before we see it?
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:46:22 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks)
To: Ken H
I thought bootyjuice was running for prez.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:47:10 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
To: Vince Ferrer
Yeah I’ve heard that too. Betelgeuse was supposed to have gone super nova a long time ago.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:47:36 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: Vince Ferrer
Do we really want a supernova going off only 700 light years away? And during a grand solar minimum when our sun’s ability to deflect incoming cosmic rays is minimized. Not that there’s anything we can do about it, at least not beyond prayer, but I hope someone has thought through how close we can survive a supernova of a given size and knows this in beyond the danger zone.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:48:09 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(waiting fo the tweets to hatch)
To: Mark17
Betelgeuse is actually only 430 light years away.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:51:39 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: JohnBovenmyer
I was about to ask if that thing can do us harm,
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:53:09 PM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Mark17
Yes-and it means if it exploded it could have done so in 1330 and we wont know it for another decade. But-if it does happen-it will not be good if its pointed this direction.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:53:12 PM PST
by
NELSON111
(Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog s<how. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
To: Mark17
I read where its about 700 light years away, so does that mean if it explodes, will it be 700 years before we see it?
Whatever we're seeing now is what happened on Betelguese 700 years ago.
To: Mark17
No, it means what we see happened 700 years ago.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:53:23 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Mark17
No, it means what we see happened 700 years ago.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:53:24 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: JohnBovenmyer
As long as its poles aren’t pointed at us we’ll be OK.
Other wise the Gama Ray burst will fry us even at 700 light years.
To: BenLurkin
Interesting trivia about Betelgeuse. It’s freaking enormous. If our sun was in the center of Betelgeuse, it would be big enough to swallow up the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt, and Jupiter.
That’s how big that red dot in that red star in Orion is.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:56:33 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Mark17
I read where its about 700 light years away, so does that mean if it explodes, will it be 700 years before we see it?If we see an explosion today, that means it happened 700 years ago. That's why I am kind of irked at the reporting of this. The reporting kind of assumes a Star Trek/Star Wars type universe where things happen instantly and characters know what happened across the galaxy, when the reality is we are limited to the speed of light. They are missing an opportunity to explain the vastness of space.
To: jmacusa; Mark17
>>Betelgeuse is actually only 430 light years away.
<<
Oh, then we damn well should panic.
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posted on
02/10/2020 10:58:37 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: desertfreedom765
“Other wise the Gama Ray burst will fry us even at 700 light years.”
Not if you wear a foil hat.
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posted on
02/10/2020 11:00:42 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: BenLurkin
I'm glad Humanity still has such a grand sense of humor to keep posting this story over-and-over, week-after-week, month-after-month. LOL
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posted on
02/10/2020 11:01:23 PM PST
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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