# Neighborhood Supernova
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 27, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982 "2002-05-27T00:32:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982/1 "2002-05-27T00:32:07Z")
For the board astronomers…
[http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992311](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992311)
Should we or our children worry?
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982/2 "2002-05-27T05:14:43Z")
[clapping hands and jumping up and down in glee]
Oh, yes, let’s! I’m SO glad to have something else to worry about besides terrorists! 😃
Um, now, let me see, I’ll start…
“Oh, no, it’s the end of everything! In hundreds of millions of years, it will be the end of McDonalds!”
Okay, folks, the Panic Line forms on the right…
next?
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### Author:  [@MarkyDeSade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkyDeSade)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982/3 "2002-05-27T05:36:26Z")
Thank God I just renovated the bomb shelter. I wonder if I should stock up on food now, or wait a few milennia. Twinkies will be fine, right?
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighborhood-supernova/110982/4 "2002-05-27T06:40:51Z")
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Let’s go burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!
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