Topic: No, a nearby supernova won’t wipe us out

[Clive]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/no-a-nearby-supernova-wont-wipe-us-out/

[Rik]

Are you sure?

[GillE]

An asteroid will get us first anyway.

[Camstop]

QE will get us first  

[Clive]

The story has been a hot topic in the media this week based on http://news.skymania.com/2010/01/supernova-star-too-close-for-comfort.html .  The story was a complete load of rubbish and I thought it may have been of interest.   

[sam]

20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT.

hahahaha

3,260 light-years away

that's a pretty big distance. Anyway we will long be gone before it explodes.. not that the radiation from something that distance would cause that much of an issue... 

The photo doesn't look right either.