only if we're directly along its axiseta carinae is a much more likely threat
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urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:38,
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no... when it explodes it will be in all directions... sending out a massive ball of gamma and x rays killing all the squirrels.Orion's left shoulder will kill us all :(
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Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts.,
Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:40,
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no, betelgeuse will merely appear as an enormously bright supernovaonly if we are aligned with its axis will any significant amount gamma radiation reach us. if that is so, we are doomed.
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Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:44,
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