I was looking at a solar filament the other day. You know. Just a few hundred thousand kilometers long blast of superheated hydrogen plasma. The fact that this

I was looking at a solar filament the other day. You know. Just a few hundred thousand kilometers long blast of superheated hydrogen plasma. The fact that this was just normal day-to-day operation of a G2 V star, and it would have consumed the entire planet of Earth, just is incomprehensible to most folks. And that is Sol just happily percolating away. It isn't even the actions of a nova, never mind a supernova.