Re: World did not end Wednesday: news at 6: was - Re: World to end Wednesday

On Sep 13, 1:32 am, "Greendistantstar"
<pde63539removet...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually - if you use your frikken brain for once - if we observe
betelgeuse, or ANY star going supernova, that implies the light (and
radiation) is reaching us NOW.
Until we observe it, it may have already gone supernova. We don't
know.

Well, actually, we do. We understand the life-cycles of stars and what causes them to do
what they do. Stars such as our sun aren't going nova anytime soon.

Exactly. And when betelgeuse goes supernova, we might not know for
hundreds of years; or howeverlong it takes the light to reach the
earth, as I said. The sun is not betelgeuse. But you already knew
that.

What we do know is that the mayans were almost certainly aware
that light took time to travel from the stars to the earth,

No, we don't know that at all.

We do - they were able to determine diffuse areas of the sky, such as
the Orion nebula. Furthermore the "diving god" theory shows that the
mayans were aware of the travel of light (the "diving" of the light
from the sun down during it's zenith). Anyone who had ACTUALLY studied
Mayan cosmology would know if this was true...

and as a
result we may deduce they had taken into account that betelgeuse may
have already gone supernova hundreds or thousands of years ago; and
that the light simply had not reached us yet.

Utter rubbish. There is no evidence that the Mayans had any clue what stars were, let
alone the processes behind supernovae.

What? Did you even READ what I wrote? Read it again. Your respose is a
non-sequitur.

It is QUITE possible that, armed with this knowledge, they had deduced
the energy would reach us sometime in 2012, hence their prediction of
the end of the world.

Yes, it's about as possible as the LHC creating world-gobbling black holes.

False compromise. Do you realize that your use of this argument
implies you are UNAWARE of the dangers associated with the LHC?

Come on peter, you can do MUCH better than this.

It's pretty clear who's ignorant and who's not, Ollie.

Yes, it is.

You don't understand high school science, let alone this stuff.

You keep saying it, but...

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