We're all going to die !!!!!

[Louwai]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2795981/Supernova-may-wipe-out-the-Earth.html#ixzz0bp7ahrOn

[Omaroo]

As one of the respondents said: "It's OK - I've got aircon."

[Jabba]

uhhohh

[Rainingstar]

Well I guess that will be happening in the year 2012, won't it?:eyepop:

[supernova1965]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't possible that it has already gone supernova and that we would already be dead if it were going to effect us but we just haven't seen the light from it's explosion yet I suppose it all depends on whether the blast wave would reach us before the light maybe it is already all over and we don't have anything to worry about.:shrug:

[Ric]

It's probably more plausible than the Mayan calendar thing.

[starlooker]

Y2k, Apophis(killer asteroid), 2012, and now the Deathstar.

What next?! Just kill me already! :lol:

[Ric]

GODZILLA :eyepop:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Barrykgerdes]

I am awfully worried so will all those who are also expecting to die send all their money to me. I won't mind being a dead billionaire!

Baz;);):rofl::lol:

[that_guy]

The media has got to be the worst form of noticing the public of this sort of event!! I mean they make it sound so horrible!!! It would be like screaming "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! EVERYONE PANIC AND LOOT EVERYTHING!!!"

[leon]

Not again surely, how many times this year were we doomed.

Leon

[Waxing_Gibbous]

I'm up for a bit of panic-inciting, a soupcon of looting, perhaps some pillaging and a touch of pre-apocolypse vandalism, followed by a nice cup of tea.
Anyone with me?

[OzRob]

I really think that people who have no understanding of science should be banned from writing about it.

[that_guy]

agreed

[Omaroo]

Maybe missing the point a little here.... this is "The Sun" we're talking about here. It's a tabloid...i.e. entertainment. the same paper that relays the latest UFO sighting to you each week.;)

[that_guy]

According to einstein, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so we would see the light before the blast hits us...

[multiweb]

:lol: I remember the SUN. Page 2 is the only page that was worth it IMO. :P I remember one week they wrote that a B42 bomber crash site was found on the moon. Then the following week that Hitler's skeleton was amongst the wreckage :nerd:

[OzRob]

That fact was not lost on me. The sad thing is that a lot of people will believe the story because it appears to be based on science. Aliens in spaceships are just sligthly less believable...:)

[Omaroo]

No they won't - they're "The Sun" readers!

[avandonk]

It is a beat up. Eta Carina if it goes SN is far more likely to produce massive amounts of gamma radiation. We are just far enough away to be OK. I hope!

As for tabloid dimwits writing stories of things beyond their comprehension which is nearly everything. Nothing that is at all plausible to see. Only dimwits dribbling from their mouths. Sorry looking at the wrong end!

Bert

[mithrandir]

Isn't page 3 the only worthwhile page in a UK tabloid?

[supernova1965]

Of course thanks for setting me right I am not any where near Einstien's league:thumbsup:

[rogerg]

So we see the light of the blast, scientists calculate when the shock wave will hit, everyone on the side of the planet facing the star at that time evacuates to the other side of the planet. Then the shock wave actually hits and the scientists realise they calculated in metric not imperial, so the shock wave hits the site of the planet populated by 100% of eaerthlings. We all die. Oh well, that'll teach us.

[leinad]

Haha, I love how he intentionally missed out the 'in millions of years from now'. We're doomed!

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/100104-aas-close-supernova.html

[Kevnool]

I like the original first post......We're all going to die !!!!!

Thats so correct.

Cheers Kev.

[Gemini2544]

There was an American news paper called "Just good News"
it reported only good news.............it went broke.

Only Sex & lies sell. :screwy:

[that_guy]

"98% of us will die at some point in our lives" Ricky Bobby

[that_guy]

Isn't that what happened to the First Mars Lander incident? Forgetting to change the units??

[Louwai]

Sounds just about right for a Friday afternoons entertainment. (I've got nothing on tomorrow arv)



Bring back Samantha Fox!!!!!!!


I had to get your attention some how Kev.

[[1ponders]]

That's fully sic!
Note to editor: restrict work experience students from writing opening paragraphs.

:rolleyes:

[rogerg]

Yeah, and history has shown that humans don't learn very well from their mistakes ;)

[TrevorW]

No where not I've got the solution

[bartman]

On the serious side.....when will it explode?
Are scientists expecting a near human time of a SN?
IE days, months, years or decades ( or deca decades)?
I've read that it has produced SN 'burps' at a rate of roughly 20 years apart. The last one in 1967. None since. So its over due......Could that mean a Large outburst? soon....

Also read that it could be 10 million years.

Has there been any scientific data from other predicted SN's that has been wrong ( ie sooner than expected)?

Bartman

[DavidU]

I stopped buying newspapers some years ago as it was full of sensationalist garbage.

[supernova1965]

I also have to ask for some info on whether it is close enough to effect us I would not have a clue but it sounds like a long way away 3,260 light-years is that to close I don't know how far from a supernova you have to be to be safe please enlighten me.:thanx:

[TrevorW]

Bart in any event if it did happen there are two options

1. stick your head between your legs and KYAG or
2. not even worth worrying about

because at the end of the day there would be nothing we could do about it

[bartman]

K, I understand that nutink can be done.
But it would be cool to know WHEN we can do nutink about it.....

I would love to take pics of the event and save them to a SSD, lock it up in some Titanium ( or whatever at the time is the strongest material to resist all radiation etc) strong box, and send it to the nearest exo-planet that might support life:rofl:+ some DNA so maybe we can continue somewhere somehow

:question:
Bartman:thumbsup:

[leinad]

3.5days possibly to hit the solar system if it does go kaboom. Interesting read here:
http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt

Here's an interesting blogpost by astrophysicist Steinn Sigurdsson.
http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2010/01/has_a_supernova_type_ia_progen.php

[that_guy]

whoa, hang on a minute does that mean that the SN star is 3.5 light DAYS away from our solar system that means that its in OUR SOLAR SYSTEM!!! Unless by some means the explosion can go way faster than the speed of light. (a SN with Warp capability!! :lol:)

[leinad]

Ok, I think I misread
http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt

..and it more so means that a lethal dose of radiation for unshielded humans( outside of the earths atmosphere) from the gamma/xray outburst would be 3.5 days of constant exposure.

My bad.

:shrug:

[that_guy]

oh... that makes more sense...

[Rob_K]

https://sites.google.com/site/aavsocvsection/cv-blog/t-pyxidis-the-story-that-just-won-t-die