Supernova about to give Earth a second sun., page 1

Wouldn't that cause extreme heat? but if it doesn't awesome! that's going to be on every website, tv show, anybody who can see or hear is gonna be amazed!! thanks for sharing.

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:45 PM by whoshotJR

Its very cool but has also been talked about a few times because like you said, it could happen today or many many more years in the future.

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:46 PM by stirling

Hay very neat find! The proximity of this kind of event just reeks of doomsday for earthlife.
Though perhaps it would be a mere sideshow but hey, even winding up with a black hole in the neighbourhood, may provide us with the power and the wormhole to travel hyperspace...???maybe..... just sayin...

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:46 PM by heineken

sry but are they running out of chemtrails?????

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:48 PM by zooplancton

those few weeks of constant sunlight would be interesting. watching society deal with extreme sleep deprivation.
auto accident rates would sky rocket.

would the second sun require extra sun block?
I'm betting it would.

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:49 PM by Alchemst7

Originally posted by Disemboweled
reply to post by Krusty the Klown

that's going to be on every website, tv show,

Trust me, if this does happen, I wouldn't be watching it on TV or a website, I would be outside watching it Live!!

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:49 PM by Krusty the Klown

reply to post by PoorFool

Yes, it would be interesting to see the reaction of the extremely religious.

P.S. Cool avatar! One of my favourite parts of the movie!

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:51 PM by heineken

The infamous red super-giant star in Orion’s nebula - Betelgeuse - is predicted to go gangbusters and the impending super-nova may reach Earth before 2012

this is the craziest xit i have read this morning...ok i just woke up but seriously...and are they not expecting the normal people to call this Nibiru??

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:53 PM by Krusty the Klown

Originally posted by Disemboweled
reply to post by Krusty the Klown

Wouldn't that cause extreme heat? but if it doesn't awesome! that's going to be on every website, tv show, anybody who can see or hear is gonna be amazed!! thanks for sharing.

I don't think we'd get any heat from it - its too far away, when you think about what heat we get from our Sun, but then I'm no astrophysicist.

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:56 PM by 00nunya00

Noting the bit in the article about the supernova spewing neutrinos our way, could this be a possibility in the crazy behavior of neutrinos we're seeing right now with its effects on the half lives of certain elements lately (as in the last few years or so that we've been noticing it)? Could it be that it's not the sun's neutrinos that are changing, but rather different sorts of particles like neutrinos (or neutrinos that behave differently when emanating from a supernova instead of a stable star) that are coming from this supernova? Could that be the early indication that it's coming soon (relatively, in the grand scheme of things)?

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:56 PM by freedish

reply to post by Krusty the Klown

I don't understand how they can say it could happen within weeks or a few millions years... can they not measure the distance from the star to earth to know when the light will arrive? Or is it that they don't know how long the star will take to use up all its hydrogen?

reply posted on 18-1-2011 @ 11:58 PM by LifeInDeath

There are some errors in that story. Betelgeuse is not the "second biggest star in the universe" - it's very, very large, a red super-giant, but there are several much larger stars that we know of (and probably countless more that we don't yet know about).

An interesting thing they don't mention in the article, which may or may not be related to the star's possible impending supernova, observations over the past 15 years have shown that it has lost about 15% of its diameter in that time. This could just be some sort of natural "breathing" of the star and not mean anything, or it could mean it's going through some early stage of the process of actually blowing up soon.

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reply posted on 19-1-2011 @ 12:37 AM by adigregorio

Betelgeuse is not in the belt, tis his shoulder.

Also, does is not take a bit of time for the light of the star to reach us? I always assumed it had went supernova ages ago, and we are just waiting to see the fireworks.

(The second part, I am not sure about. The first part, I am super sure!

reply posted on 19-1-2011 @ 12:40 AM by Rockerchic4God

Cool!!! I hope this happens in my lifetime - of all the generations of earth that have ever lived WE could get to be the ones to witness this!!!

If it's any danger, I'd rather go out that way than being exterminated at a Fema camp by the NWO