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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:54 PM Original message |
Star explodes halfway across universe (CNN) |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Or, more accurately, it was gone 7 billion years ago. n/t |
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Clear Blue Sky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Good point. |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. That's one of those things that we simply have to hope |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 11:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That was actually the premise in one of Stephen Baxter's novels |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 01:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Probably easier to come up with a planet sized |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 08:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. For some reason ... |
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Duncan (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-25-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Diaspora by Greg Egan |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. From what I understand about gamma ray bursts... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Gone before there was enough dust and rock |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 08:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Very likely, no life (such as we would recognize) was destroyed |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Why would a first generation star not have had planets? |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I should have said "no terrestrial planets" |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. That's a good point. |
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