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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2010-05-29 07:48 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2010-05-29 07:48 pm
Entry tags:
I need an "interesting if true" tag
Unixronin discusses an unsubstantiated rumour that Betelgeuse may be much closer to going boom than was previously realized.
A lot of disclaimers go here, beginning with "I don't trust the source, not least because of how they handle things like how bright SN 2010whatever would be if it happened" "like unixronin, I have not seen any confirmation of this rumour (I will accept a new object as bright as the moon suddenly appearing in the sky)" and "mentioning a rumour is not advocacy."
Also, and I invoke my common law rights to harvest organs from people who panic about the following point even though here I am making it clear they don't need to panic, we're talking "interesting bright light in the sky" here, not "a pulse of electromagnetic radiation so powerful the Earth puffs into a cloud of super-heated volatiles and metals."
A lot of disclaimers go here, beginning with "I don't trust the source, not least because of how they handle things like how bright SN 2010whatever would be if it happened" "like unixronin, I have not seen any confirmation of this rumour (I will accept a new object as bright as the moon suddenly appearing in the sky)" and "mentioning a rumour is not advocacy."
Also, and I invoke my common law rights to harvest organs from people who panic about the following point even though here I am making it clear they don't need to panic, we're talking "interesting bright light in the sky" here, not "a pulse of electromagnetic radiation so powerful the Earth puffs into a cloud of super-heated volatiles and metals."