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Old 07-01-2010, 10:02 AM
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We're all going to die !!!!!

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Old 07-01-2010, 10:07 AM
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As one of the respondents said: "It's OK - I've got aircon."
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Old 07-01-2010, 10:23 AM
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Old 07-01-2010, 11:23 AM
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Well I guess that will be happening in the year 2012, won't it?
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Old 07-01-2010, 11:32 AM
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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.
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Old 07-01-2010, 12:14 PM
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It's probably more plausible than the Mayan calendar thing.
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Old 07-01-2010, 12:38 PM
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Y2k, Apophis(killer asteroid), 2012, and now the Deathstar.

What next?! Just kill me already!
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Old 07-01-2010, 12:45 PM
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Y2k, Apophis(killer asteroid), 2012, and now the Deathstar.

What next?! Just kill me already!

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Old 07-01-2010, 01:13 PM
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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!

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Old 07-01-2010, 01:16 PM
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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!!!"
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Old 07-01-2010, 01:51 PM
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Not again surely, how many times this year were we doomed.

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Old 07-01-2010, 01:56 PM
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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?
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:25 PM
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I really think that people who have no understanding of science should be banned from writing about it.
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:28 PM
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:46 PM
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I really think that people who have no understanding of science should be banned from writing about it.
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.
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:52 PM
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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.

According to einstein, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so we would see the light before the blast hits us...
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:54 PM
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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.
I remember the SUN. Page 2 is the only page that was worth it IMO. 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
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Old 07-01-2010, 02:58 PM
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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 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...
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Old 07-01-2010, 03:38 PM
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The sad thing is that a lot of people will believe the story because it appears to be based on science.
No they won't - they're "The Sun" readers!
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Old 07-01-2010, 03:43 PM
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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!

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