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Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated
The Bad Astronomer writes "A rumor is spreading on the Net like wildfire that the red supergiant star Betelgeuse is about to explode in a supernova. This rumor is almost certainly not true. First, it's posted on a doomsday forum. Second, it's three times removed from the source, and is anonymous at each step. Third, the evidence is shaky at best. Plus, even if true, the supernova is too far away to hurt us. But other than that ..."
Yeah, but if you say it three times, you'll end up being forceably married to some animated corpse by a gnome-like monster ala Communion.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Sure, but of all the places to go for bad rumors and conspiracy theories, slashdot is my favorite!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Hmm... That's almost more interesting to me. Seems pretty odd to have a doomsday forum. If you think the world is ending soon, you're going to be online, chatting about it? Are the doomsday predictions spinning off to places other than Earth because doomsayers realized they're tired of being wrong and if they're right about predicting the earth's demise, they won't get any credit for it?
Nobody yet knows where the Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.
Yeah, and Slashdot is also a site that covers this kind of thing.
Plus it beats yet another "Something has tenuous link with iPad"/"Someone wrote hype piece about iPad"/"iPadipadipadipadipad!" story.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I don't see any Pierson's Puppeteers around. I think we should get out of here.
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640 is the distance limit anyway. After all, why would light need to travel further than 640 LY?
Slashdot is news for nerds. News affecting "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" qualifies. I mean, I'm guessing 90% of us have read some or all of the "trilogy." Also guessing that most of us, upon reading the title, thought "What about Ford Prefect now?"
Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?
Anyone with a good telescope available?!
The one thing I don't want to be doing if Betelgeuse goes supernova is looking at it with a telescope.
(not with my remaining good eye that is).
http://michaelsmith.id.au
No, we didn't. Unlike you, most of us have the ability to distinguish between reality and fiction.
meh. Potato, potawto, it's all relative.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
Oh come on, everyone knows the Mayan Calendar has been debunked.
With the crazies I have around me, who'd notice?
I don't think any neutrino detector can detect them. Not even IceCube.
What about Dr Dre?
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
You're all going to be pissed, I saw a picture of a guy who saw an iPad and wrote a 1,000 word essay on the topic and submitted it.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
2012 hasn't been thoroughly debunked. It's still 2010. Just wait 2 more years, then it'll be thoroughly debunked.
I heard a rumor about a slashdotter who saw a picture of a guy who saw an iPad. I submitted it as a story. kdawson promised me it would be front page tomorrow.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
it is way beyond the point at which I give a flying fuck because it doesn't effect me one whit. However, it may be really upsetting to Zaphod Beeblebrox
Orion my be bothered by it as well. It is his right shoulder, after all.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Nice try, but I'm not falling for that one.
I don't think any neutrino detector can detect them. Not even IceCube.
What about Dr Dre?
Oh right! Forgot about Dre.
I live.
The real doomsday sign is the cubs wining it all!
Should I start looking for cats and dogs living together amidst mass hysteria?
The ignorant think 2012 is scarier than global warming. I wish they could put it off its only been a handful of years since 2000.
Well, 2012 is an election year...
Don't people get sick of doomsdays?
Flash! Plague of doomsday fears could cause humanity's extinction! Tabloid journalism at 11!"
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
Edelweiss is actually pronounced "Aydel-vice"
Actually, it's pronounced "edel-weiss." Some of us are native German speakers, you insensitive clod!
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Sure, but of all the places to go for bad rumors and conspiracy theories, slashdot is my favorite!
I wonder if the other trashy news (+rumor) sites say "this was first reported on Slashdot, which means it's probably false."
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Well, 640 light years ought to be far enough for anyone!
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
640 light years is enough for anyone
At warp 9, it would take about 144 days to reach Betelgeuse.
Ago: One less than twogo.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.