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To be honest, my first thought before reading the article was: Well...yeah...I'd assume if your sun went supernova you'd probably go extinct. The article was a

To be honest, my first thought before reading the article was: Well...yeah...I'd assume if your sun went supernova you'd probably go extinct. The article was a nice read though. I've read a few thing claiming similar theories, but it was usually amongst a bunch of fairly unscientific ummm...stuff...to put it nicely.... It was nice to see the idea explained in a logical scientific way that made sense.

ChuckMcM 8y ago
No one disputes that one, if the Sun turned into a super nova it would definitely take out the Earth :-). And we know that a star going nova in the Large Magellanic Cluster (nearest galaxy to the Milkyway) would not cause one[1], so we've got a set of boundary conditions to start with. Next step is to iterate between those extremes to come up with a more accurate answer. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A