No, but it gives you a good excuse to call in for a day off.
“Sorry boss, I was hit by a neutrino and my DNA is unraveling, so I have to miss work.”
Seen on twitter -
Betelgeuse: I install one dimmer switch in my dining room and the whole galaxy loses its shit.
I read that it can take “a few million years” for the process to complete and the star to explode.
That’s one guess. But nobody really knows.
Well, for the locals, it’s definitely going to be worse than The Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal./Sid./Year 03758.
I’d say you found the prefect response to this topic. 
Sure, but are there no spectroscopic techniques to detect, say, the proportion of carbon fusion?
I’m certainly rooting for an explosion as soon as possible! It would add some excitement to my overly tame life.
OTOH, might there be a slight chance that boring conspiracy theories and annoying new fake religions will flood the Internets when Betelgeuse really does blow up?
Yeah! She’s gotta pop sometime; why not do it for my benefit? I don’t feel like I’ve gotten to witness any great astronomical oddities and I am at the point where I am very aware that I am not getting any younger.
That’s all happening deep in the core. We can only do spectroscopy on the parts we can see, i.e., the surface.
In principle there’d be a way to tell from the spectrum of the neutrinos, but neutrinos are so hard to detect in general, and Betelgeuse is so far away, that we’re not going to detect any neutrinos from it (at least, not any that we can identify as being from it, and certainly not enough to get a useful energy spectrum) until it does blow.
Throughout the whole of the 70s, we were told how great Halley’s comet would be in '86…
Okay, Halley was a bit of a dud. But Hale-Bopp in 1997 was pretty cool!
So maybe the lesson is that Betelgeuse won’t go supernova in our lifetimes, but some other star in our galaxy that we weren’t paying as much attention to will. 
Some of us are old enough to remember the disappointment of comet Kohoutek in 1973:
Honestly, I suspect that Hale-Bopp was about as good as Haley 1910, and that the stories of Haley 1910 were a combination of hyperbole and skies being darker back then.
I saw two comets that year (1997), and both were much better than Halley.
Wasn’t Hyakutake the year before?
Yeah, Hale-Bopp was the comet of a lifetime.
Comet West was the big one for me. 1975 and yet didn’t get a fraction of the publicity of Halley or Kohoutek.
Absolutely beautiful large, classic comet appearance in the dawn hours.
Yeah- I intended to say ‘within the period of a year’ rather than limiting it to 1997, but it didn’t come out right.