Comments on: Lost And Found https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Lowell https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/#comment-5081 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:42:37 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5994#comment-5081 jpatrick: re: “The main reason that Betelgeuse won’t kill us is that by the time it blows, our civilization will probably already have collapsed”

Except it might have blown up 642 yrs ago (at the start of the Hundred Year’s War) and it will only reach us and end our civilization tomorrow.

]]> By: jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/#comment-3980 Wed, 18 May 2016 10:51:58 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5994#comment-3980 The main reason that Betelgeuse won’t kill us is that by the time it blows, our civilization will probably already have collapsed.

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/#comment-3975 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:43:16 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5994#comment-3975 Yep. Thanks.

]]> By: Jean Tate https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/#comment-3973 Tue, 17 May 2016 12:19:31 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5994#comment-3973 “Despite the closeness and brightness of this supernova, there were no serious effects on Earth at the time”: would that have the case if SN1006 had been a GRB with one of the jets pointed directly at us?

]]> By: Jeff Swearingen https://briankoberlein.com/2016/05/16/lost-and-found/#comment-3971 Tue, 17 May 2016 03:41:27 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5994#comment-3971 Interesting post, Brian. It’s fascinating to me that the antarctic ice sheet can provide a record for such things.

Typo found: “It’s appearance” should be “Its appearance”.

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