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Betelgeuse might go off
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It's dimming 'cause it needs a new Duracell!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!  (December 28, 2019 at 3:41 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: It's dimming 'cause it needs a new Duracell! Should have stayed with that Energizer battery, I guess.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
 
LastPoet
 Leader of the gang of jerkoffs(tm)  Religious Views: L'Uomo verrà portato dalla sua creazione
Highest kill score ever!!!
 (December 28, 2019 at 11:42 am)AFTT47 Wrote: The dimming is not an indicator that it's about to go boom. Betelgeuse is a known variable star - though this is the most it has dimmed in a long time. I read the upper layers of Betelgeuse are suspected to harbor gigantic convection upwellings a significant fraction of an AU in diameter. when each of these convection diapirs reach the star’s surface, the star sheds several Jupiter mass worth of mass in surrounding space. The star is surrounded by 7-8 discernible asymmetrical shells of material ejected during such events. When such an event is about to occur, it is suspected the star will drastically dim and then brighten.  (December 28, 2019 at 6:18 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Highest kill score ever!!! Are you sure about that?
Dying to live, living to die.
When humans of any religion make claims about how important their religion is to them, it isn't a matter of human rights. I do not dispute they claim that. But when I read the scientific reality of how brutal the universe is and how hostile it is to life, I can't help but feel sorry for those who cling to such superstitions. Not because they are bad. But because they have been taught self importance in the wrong context. We as a species are important in the here and now, in as far as we can hope to cooperate and extend our finite ride. But we are not important, friend or foe, in the context 13.8 billion years.
I find it amazing by itself, that with all the quantum events that happened, didn't happen, and could have happened, that could have prevented the evolution of our species, that lead to me. I find it amazing that the atoms in me are a result of the death of prior stars. But even if humans didn't have nukes, and we were not causing global warming as a species, the universe like a supernova, gamma ray, comet, or meteor could wipe our species out in a second. 
By the way, if you want to be ahead of the light when one blows up, follow SNEWS
https://twitter.com/SNEWSNeutrino/status...91200?s=19
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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