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post #16 of 27
6/1/10 at 6:08pm
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post #17 of 27
6/1/10 at 6:24pm
Our lifetimes are so short that I just can't get too pumped about news like this anymore.

Yeah, we could see a supernova in a couple of weeks.

Or, if some absolutely teeny tiny trivial thing, say someone dropped a Prius on Betelgeuse as it was collapsing or something, all of a sudden the moment of final schism gets pushed back half a millenium. We don't get to see it, nor our children, grandchildren, their grandchildren....

But, it could happen Sunday week.

And if it did, I think it would be the coolest thing most people would ever see in their lifetimes. I also think that it would fuck up so many different things, many of which we would never be able to predict until it actually happened.
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post #18 of 27
6/1/10 at 7:23pm
I hope it's more exciting than the Hale Bopp comet which just looked like the sky had a smudge on it.
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post #19 of 27
6/1/10 at 7:25pm
Okay, some of the important questions. Will this mess up cell and Blackberry services?
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post #20 of 27
6/1/10 at 8:00pm
whats the pope's angle on this?
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post #21 of 27
6/1/10 at 8:06pm
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What they mean is, according to the light we are seeing now. Yes, whatever happened (or didn't happen) is already in the past but for all intents and purposes, from our perspective, it is still unfolding.

Man. A dude wouldn't want to try to read this ^ if he'd just smoked a bowl!
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post #22 of 27
6/1/10 at 9:13pm
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Man. A dude wouldn't want to try to read this ^ if he'd just smoked a bowl!

Dude, did you ever think that, like, maybe the entire universe is just like this giant atom? Whoah!
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post #23 of 27
6/1/10 at 9:31pm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...about-to-blow/

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So my personal opinion is that this is just another breathless rumor of astronomical doomsday that we get every couple of years. Even if any of the science of it is right, it doesn’t mean Betelgeuse is about to explode any day now. And since this is a rumor three times removed, I don’t put any stock in it. I’ll wait until I hear from named scientists with published or publishable data before I start to wonder if the star is about to blow.
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post #24 of 27
6/1/10 at 9:59pm
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Dude, did you ever think that, like, maybe the entire universe is just like this giant atom? Whoah!
More often than you would believe. edit: Dude.
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post #25 of 27
6/1/10 at 10:52pm
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Probably doubts the existence of Bigfoot as well.
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post #26 of 27
6/2/10 at 7:24am
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Update: Nevermind. Yet it woulda been kewl.


http://i.imgur.com/tAJpy.png
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post #27 of 27
6/2/10 at 8:40am
I'm always slightly amazed that some of the most advanced scientific thought occurs in Hawaii. It just seems to be so at odds with the laid back feel of the place.
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