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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Where did you get that information? Any idea what the time lag would be between the arrival of light and the arrival of debris? I’m wondering what our window is to set up defensive measures.


141 posted on 06/11/2009 3:36:53 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Depends on what percentage of the speed of light the particles travel, and if there are any dust clouds or other obstacles to particle travel between us and the “big beam gun.”
Also depends on if the rotation axis is pointing at us or not.


142 posted on 06/11/2009 3:47:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps
Grrrr, if at first....

Most of the data I got from Wikisky.org. (A must see 3D mapping site.)

As to the debris, it will be a while before even the fastest of it reaches us. Picture a spherical dispersion pattern across 640LY of dust and stellar filled space.

144 posted on 06/11/2009 6:22:24 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: GreenLanternCorps

There will be NO large pieces of “debris”. The “nebula” which forms from a supernova explosion consists of gas, not solid matter.


145 posted on 06/12/2009 7:37:58 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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