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[Birch, Jim]

Tom Koltai quoted:

> The infamous red super-giant star in Orion's nebula - Betelgeuse - is
predicted to go gangbusters and the impending super-nova may reach Earth
before 2012, and when it does, all of our wildest Star Wars dreams will
come true.

Alternately:

"Rumors of Betelgeuse's death have been greatly exaggerated."

"It's the question of when that the two articles go off the rails.
Betelgeuse may explode tomorrow night, or it may not go kerblooie until
the year 100,000 A.D. We don't know. But given that huge range, the odds
of it blowing up next year are pretty slim. And clearly, the original
article was really trying to tie in the 2012 date to this, even when it
has nothing to do with anything. The tie-in was a rickety link to
scuttlebutt on the web about it, but that's about it."

"What's worse, the HuffPo article attributes the date to Dr. Carter
himself, but in the original article he never says anything about it;
the connection is all made by the article author. Given how popular
HuffPo is, I imagine a lot of people will now think an actual scientist
is saying Betelgeuse will blow up in 2012."

from http://www.geekosystem.com/betelgeuse-exploding/

See also the Wikipedia entry.

- Jim


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