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Old 30-April-2005, 12:36 AM
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Default Re: Is this actually do to reach us this year
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Originally Posted by Maksutov
Which means that the year 842,005 CE will mark the end of the world as bmpbmp knows it!
Understanding of course, that in 850,000 (give or take a few thousand) years the world won't be as bmpbmp "knows it" irregardless of the supernova.

That is a LOOONG ways away. You'd probably be able to detect the particle stream with good instruments, but that stuff isn't being focused in our direction. As a practical matter, it would be completely irrelevent.