Exploding Star May Have Damaged Life on Earth

Reedo writes "Scientists have proposed that an ancient supernova may have damaged our ozone layer, wreaking havok on terrestrial life. Previously no one had realized that a cluster of stars could have been so close to the earth during that time. But don't worry about it happening again anytime soon. The next expected supernova is nearly 500,000 light-years away and is too far from the earth to cause any damage."

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Astrologers, more likely

[leonbrooks]

The next member of the gang expected to go supernova is Antares, which at almost 500,000 light-years away is too distant to rattle our planet, they say.

What kind of dope are these astronomers smoking? Antares is 500 light years away.

They're really astrologers. They believe incredible things about the past, and try to predict the future (often with a flattened-out glass ball, although recently they re-potted their orbiting crystal divination tube).

They even have the physicists jumping through hoops and stretching statistics out of shape in order to make non-optical instruments fit the astrologers' wild theories.

If companies did this kind of thing, they'd be writted* out of the picture before you could blink, but this is Science (insert respectful silence) and cannot be questioned (insert shocked inhalations at `the very idea!').

* Writted (ri'-ted), v, to saturate with offensive court documents.