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Post by deadbison on Oct 13, 2015 0:47:28 GMT
So the nemesis theory is pretty bogus, but I still find it compelling. Does anyone else think death from super nova is neat?
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Post by spinosaurusthefisher on Oct 13, 2015 1:52:40 GMT
It's a nice theory indeed, but quite a bit of a logical stretch.
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Post by theTorterra on Oct 13, 2015 6:07:53 GMT
It could make a neat plot point in a science fiction tale.
...*hurriedly writes the idea down*
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Post by dracontes on Oct 18, 2015 6:53:27 GMT
I think there's some confusion of hypotheses here: Nemesis is the name of an hypothetical low-mass companion star of the Sun. Its effect would be to perturb the Oort cloud and send comets barreling inward. As for supernovae or gamma ray bursts ending life on Earth, I don't recall anyone coining a name for those events. Torterra, perhaps better even so that you take a different tack: Asimov already covered the above notion. |
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Post by deadbison on Oct 21, 2015 11:10:40 GMT
Oops, sorry. I had read somewhere there was an old theory that a supernova from a local star irradiated the earth and killed the dinosaurs. Silly but neat in a sci-fi way
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