Will the SUN Super-Nova Within the Next 30 Days?

[jmarkross]

Just a thought...someone whose opinion I respect who is well-acquainted with the Solar System....says he sees a problem with the Sun...

[PennyQuilts]

Crap, as if I don't already have enough things to worry about.

[Midtowner]

Where is Thunder? I want his opinion.

[dmoor82]

Where is Thunder? I want his opinion.

ha,I need a laugh errrr... I mean an opinion as well!

[dmoor82]

I mean it could happen but nobody knows for sure.Scientist think that the Sun and our Solar system are around 4-4.5 Billion years of age and they seem to believe that the Sun has burned off half of it's energy but really nobody knows!

[lake hefner breeze]

Seems like a pretty kick-ass way of going out.

[Jesseda]

im stupid, so what exactly is a super nova.. it sounds like a energy frink

[venture]

im stupid, so what exactly is a super nova.. it sounds like a energy frink

Simple version, it is when a star explodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova

[OKCisOK4me]

Before a star supernovas, do you know how long it takes it to red giant? For those of you that's like a 100,000 times bigger than the sun is now. It would take a lot longer than 30 days. It's not just gonna blow up in its current state, lol.

[Thunder]

jmarkross, there is nothing to be worried about anytime soon. Especially in our lifetime. You are aware of a recent explosion on the sun a few days ago and because of that, your paranoia kicked in. Relax, this is only an active period for the sun and the Geomagnetic Storm will not have much impact other than possible slight disturbance to our radio, radar, compass, etc...which had already gone passed a few days ago. This is not the end of the world. Here is a video, purely for education and self entertainment...

[USG'60]

Mark is not REALLY concerned. He's funning us, probably more specifically YOU, ya silly goose.

[windowphobe]

And if the sun does go KABOOM (which it shouldn't, since there is no air in space to carry the sound of an earth-shattering KABOOM), it'll be about eight minutes before we're actually quick-fried to a crackly crunch.

[jmarkross]

Before a star supernovas, do you know how long it takes it to red giant? For those of you that's like a 100,000 times bigger than the sun is now. It would take a lot longer than 30 days. It's not just gonna blow up in its current state, lol.

So--who REALLY knows how long it takes? All is conjecture based on *zippo*. All the same...I am working furiously on concentrating some lotion into SPF800,000,000,000,000 sunblock--just in case. What I heard was more about the internal integrity of the mass itself--coming apart somehow, perhaps...

[MadMonk]

Someone needs to place an infant child into a capsule and launch it into space toward a blue sun so that he or she has amazing powers when as he grows up. I base my theory of what color sun to choose based on the ROYGBIV color spectrum. Superman went from red to yellow, so it follows that someone from a yellow-sun system needs to go two notches further down the spectrum to a blue sun, or to be safe, maybe an Indigo sun. Anyone know of one?

[kevinpate]

Someone needs to place an infant child into a capsule and launch it into space toward a blue sun so that he or she has amazing powers when as he grows up. I base my theory of what color sun to choose based on the ROYGBIV color spectrum. Superman went from red to yellow, so it follows that someone from a yellow-sun system needs to go two notches further down the spectrum to a blue sun, or to be safe, maybe an Indigo sun. Anyone know of one?

Sorry, closest I can get is an indigo son with a burning heart for the lovely smurfette.

[jmarkross]

Someone needs to place an infant child into a capsule and launch it into space toward a blue sun so that he or she has amazing powers when as he grows up. I base my theory of what color sun to choose based on the ROYGBIV color spectrum. Superman went from red to yellow, so it follows that someone from a yellow-sun system needs to go two notches further down the spectrum to a blue sun, or to be safe, maybe an Indigo sun. Anyone know of one?

By God--he's on to something!

[jmarkross]

By God--he's on to something!

And--does not Nan Pelosi resemble the Woman Ursa? Think about it...

[MikeOKC]

JMark,

Outside of the recent increase in solar eruptions, the only thing I found was this...could this have been what he was talking about?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_874733.html

[jmarkross]

JMark,

Outside of the recent increase in solar eruptions, the only thing I found was this...could this have been what he was talking about?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_874733.html

Interesting article.

What I had heard was from a man who worked at Cal-Tech and JPL for many years...who spent an inordinate amount of time on the heavens. He usually seems to have well-founded thoughts.

[rag451]

I say let's strap Al Gore to a rocket and send him to investigate this new phenomenon of Galactic Warming...

[HewenttoJared]

No.

[HewenttoJared]

I say let's strap Al Gore to a rocket and send him to investigate this new phenomenon of Galactic Warming...

He doesn't do much investigating. He just reports the findings of actual scientists and gets ridiculed for it.

[HewenttoJared]

Where is Thunder? I want his opinion.

I was shocked to find he was not the author.

[PennyQuilts]

He doesn't do much investigating. He just reports the findings of actual scientists and gets ridiculed for it.

As much as anything else, he is ridiculed for his shockingly greenless lifestyle and the nice chunk of change he gets from being the climate change guru.

[HewenttoJared]

His life is pretty close to carbon-neutral and he already lives under the costs he thinks will be needed to make the changes necessary. The pieces you read about his "non-green" lifestyle are ridiculous slander built to prey on the ignorance of the reader and make them associate this supposed hypocrisy with the scientific reality that we are destroying our livable climate. Then people can choose to believe what they want without ever investigating the situation.

Apparently it is working:

I think the only questions have been whether man is what is causing this (one) and whether there is anything we can do about it (two).