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Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated

Posted by kdawson on from the holding-out-for-twenty-twelve dept.

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 ..."

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  1. The air fore is covering this up and the deep spac by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The air fore is covering this up and the deep space telemetry program are the guys ruining it.

  2. Ford can go home by russlar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yay! Ford Prefect can still go home!

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  3. Re:Of course it is. by mcgrew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So far:

    50% Insightful
        30% Overrated
        20% Funny

    50% of the mods are on crack, and to the 30% who modded him "overrated": woosh!

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