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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] [QUOTE] Er, so if Alpha Centuri exploded, we'd die? How exactly? [/QUOTE] Yes, and rather horribly, I'm afraid. A supernova puts out enough radiation to essentially sterilize any inhabited body out to a distance of many tens of lightyears. Of course, none of the stars in the Centauri system are going to go supernova tomorrow, or ever. And I don't _think_ there are any stars on the verge of exploding that are close enough to worry about. Still, that's today. We are moving around, after all. Could wind up in a bad neighborhood. Anyway, I'm actually all in favor of people living on Mars, though my reasons are a bit more abstract. I think, if it's resources we're looking for, asteroids make much more sense. Oh, and a supernova near enough to kill us will kill us no matter which planet we're on in this system, unless we're in the center of one, and maybe not even then, depending on distance. We're talking about a LOT of radiation. So to survive such an event, we'd need to spread across a larger region of space than could be irradiated by a single supernova. This is no mean feat. Of course, to steal from that guy who wrote Survivor, on a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everything in the universe drops to zero. Can't get away from heat death. Well, probably can't. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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