SPORADIC SPACE PHOTO

[LordKathen]

Supernova!

[Bardan the Slayer]

I love hubblesite. It takes a few glimpses at the universe to remind us all how thoroughly insignificant humanity is. Who are we to think we're so important?

[Beaumanoir]

Real confidence Builder There Bardan! [img]tongue.gif[/img]


V. Nice Kathen!!

[Bardan the Slayer]

But it's true. You're looking billions of years into the past when you gaze at stars and galaxies, witnessing some events that took place before we learned how to walk upright, and some that occurred before life even began on this insignificant little mudpile we call Earth. You gaze across distances that are so vast, light itself takes millions of years to cover them. What is humanity compared to such times and distances? Not much.

It puts an annoying parking ticket into perspective.

[Kakero]

look like a button.

[T/-/alali]

ooooo Pwetty Colows. [img]tongue.gif[/img] . I just hope our sun doesn't go supernova anytime soon.

[Zero Alpha]

Originally posted by T/-/alali: ooooo Pwetty Colows. [img]tongue.gif[/img] . I just hope our sun doesn't go supernova anytime soon.

unless your planning on living for a few billion years i dont think you need worry. althoug saying that, i wish it would as the explosion looks really pretty. just let me get a LONG way away first

[andrewas]

Sol is to small to go supernova. What it will do is swell up into a red giant, melting mercury and venus in the process, maybe earth as well, and then collapse into a dwarf star, losing its outer layers in the process. I think, its a while since I paid any attention to stellar mechanics.

I think there are some nearby stars that are large enough to go supernova, though, Sirius for one. Does anyone know what effect a supernova at that distance would have on life on earth?

[Brennihelvete]

Originally posted by andrewas: Sol is to small to go supernova. What it will do is swell up into a red giant, melting mercury and venus in the process, maybe earth as well, and then collapse into a dwarf star, losing its outer layers in the process. I think, its a while since I paid any attention to stellar mechanics. I think there are some nearby stars that are large enough to go supernova, though, Sirius for one. Does anyone know what effect a supernova at that distance would have on life on earth?

Yes, we would be grilled by disastrous microwaves. Although the next supernova will be in about 1 billion years. So we better find a bettel place to live until then.