Betelgeuse

[MeteorWayne]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />Posted by adrenalynn</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Great to see you back!</p><p>It's starting to feel more like home, Wayne<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[bdewoody]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>&nbsp;Great to see you back!It's starting to feel more like home, Wayne <br />Posted by meteorwayne</DIV><br /><br />I just found my way back in.&nbsp; Hi all <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

[QUOT]Believe me, so do I. I just arbitrarily picked 2016 for my GN to make that particular episode more dramatic. OTOH, I wouldn't mind seeing a supernova from a safe distance. When I researched it, I found most astronomers believed that Betelgeuse would mainly be fatal to people in space. <br />Posted by qso1[/QUOTE]<br /><br />In&nbsp; 1987&nbsp;&nbsp; we&nbsp; saw&nbsp; a&nbsp; supernova.Nothing&nbsp; happened.

 

[qso1]

Thats right. But thats because the nova your referring to, SN1987A...is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy. The nova itself is roughly 170,000 ly distant and was visible to southern hemisphere observers. Just the fact that something that far away could be seen when it went bang would be enough to make you wonder about one only 400 plus ly distant.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

I don't believe we have to worry about any effects from Betelgeuse going supernova as the axis of its poles are not in direct line with us. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[qso1]

More than likely that would be the case in a real event. Even in my GN I didn't make it appear to be any sort of disaster beyond showing news of what could happen. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[Testing]

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More than likely that would be the case in a real event. Even in my GN I didn't make it appear to be any sort of disaster beyond showing news of what could happen. <br />Posted by qso1[/QU</p><p><em>Slightly off topic but appropriate to your sig line.</em></p><dt class="quote">Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. </dt><dd class="author"><div class="icons"><img src="http://www.quotationspage.com/icon_info.gif" border="0" alt="[info]" width="16" height="16" /><img src="http://www.quotationspage.com/icon_plus.gif" border="0" alt="[add]" width="16" height="16" /><img src="http://www.quotationspage.com/icon_email.gif" border="0" alt="[mail]" width="16" height="16" />www.quotationspage.com/icon_blank.gif" border="0" alt="" width="16" height="16" /></div><strong>Eleanor Roosevelt</strong> </dd><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[richalex]

<p><font size="2"><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><em>I don't believe we have to worry about any effects from Betelgeuse going supernova as the axis of its poles are not in direct line with us. <br /> Posted by derekmcd</em></DIV></font></p><p><font size="2">Ironically, Space.com's main page currently has a news story titled, "</font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1b4872">Real Death Star Could Strike Earth."</font></p><p><font size="2" color="#1b4872"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080310-mm-grb-us.html</font></font></p><p><font size="2">"</font><font size="2"><font><font face="arial"><font face="arial">Both the massive stars in WR 104 will one day explode as supernovae. However, one of the pair is a highly unstable star known as a Wolf-Rayet, the last known stable phase in the life of these massive stars right before a supernova.</font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="2">"</font><font size="2"><font><font face="arial"><font face="arial">The spooky thing about this pinwheel is that it appears to be a nearly perfect spiral to us, according to new images taken with the Keck Telescope in Hawaii. 'It could only appear like that if we are looking nearly exactly down on the axis of the binary system,' Tuthill said."</font></font></font> <br /></font></p>

 

[qso1]

<p><font color="#800080">Slightly off topic but appropriate to your sig line.Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. www.quotationspage.com/icon_blank.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" width="16" height="16" />Eleanor Roosevelt &nbsp; <br /> Posted by testing</font></p><p>Cool, I gotta quite discussing people so much.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[qso1]

<p><font color="#800080">Ironically, Space.com's main page currently has a news story titled, "Real Death Star Could Strike Earth."http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080310-mm-grb-us.html&quot;Both <br /> Posted by richalex[/QUOTE]</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I read that an hour or so ago. That ones axis is pointed almost directly at us but its 20 times further away than the juice. Hard to know for certain if it would affect us and how much it would affect us if it did go supernova.&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>