"Cool" is probably the wrong adjective. I love the news story that the star
Betelgeuse might go supernova in 2012.
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| Or as late as one million AD. |
Sure, the story is just a way for an underfunded Australian astronomer to climb onto the 2012 apocalypse mania and that's fine.
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| Although some might feel gypped. |
Still, having a second sun to play with would be fun. Photographers and artists could do all sorts of unique things with the double shadow effect. And, I can't imagine what the religious fundamentalists would do with it.
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| Nobody would expect it. |
Although I'd really feel sorry for all the astrologers. When the nova receded and Betelgeuse becomes a faint little rock inside a fuzzy nebula, the constellation Orion would lose his right shoulder. He'll look all sad and lopsided.
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