i was just searching around on the internetzzzzz and i stumbled upon this:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1662&category=Science

yeah don't believe every little piece of trash you happen to pick up

actually this is possible, the nice thing is that light travels a bit faster than the debris (we get and exact difference in speed by its redshift, kind of like the doppler effect except in light ), we will have plenty of warning (centuries). the star could have blown up up to 3 millenia ago, we will see the explosion when the light gets here and do the math to figure out when the debris will reach us.

when stars blow up they cause incredible effect on surrounding systems. we can see supernova remnants that stretch across galaxies...

This post was edited by juliusjuice on May 8 2010 08:09pm

Only 1 of many things that could kill this planet. But its been 5 billion years so who knows.

maybe. who knows

this cat seems to say yes

and this cat says no


but really I say meh...

This post was edited by ass666 on May 9 2010 12:27pm

we will see in time

thats crazy shit

lol

Earth is not going to last forever. Supposedly, in 4 billion years or so the sun will become so big it will engulf the earth (if I remember correctly.

But anyways, what the article is suggesting seems plausible. I mean a solar flare from the sun could even wipe us out. It's possible, but not likely.

But hey I'm a Christian, I don't believe in these theories, so what do I know?