--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of off_world_beings > > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:23 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A supernova a second > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , bob_brigante <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0703/feature3/multimedia.html > > > > > > March 2007 National Geographic magazine: > > > > > > "Once a second somewhere in the universe a star explodes with > the > > > brilliance of an entire galaxy">>> > > > > I saw one. > > No-one will believe this but, I saw one the day Doug Henning died. > (I > > should point out I had, and have, no sense of interest or > connection to > > Doug Henning or anything he did whatsoever...totally uninteresting > to > > me). On the day Doug Henning died, I walked out of the dome in the > > evening, happened to look straight up, and I saw a bright point of > > light come alive and then fade slowly over about 2-3 seconds. I > > thought: "Wow, I just saw a supernova - amazing". I had studied > > astronomy in-depth as a teenager, and I could think of nothing > else > > that would do that, so deep in the evening sky. It was like a > silent > > beacon from deep deep in the warmth of space, there was a warmth > and > > bliss to everything in those moments. And I thought, maybe I > imagined > > it, but I'll just check its position and see if there are any > reports > > in astronomy magazines. So I noted its position between Orion and > > Casseoppeia. A few weeks later I was in a bookstore browsing, and > > decided to look the position up, to see where it was. I was amazed > to > > find that the constellation it was in was Auriga (which I had > forgotten > > since my teenage studies), and further that Auriga meant "The > > Charioteer", so I thought that was neat, because Maharishi had > always > > been going on about Brahman being the Charioteer. But further I > looked > > and then I discovered that within Auriga, right around the region > where > > I saw the supernova (or whatever it was) was a tiny constellation > I had > > never heard of called "the Magicians". How funny, since it was the > day > > Doug Henning died who was so close to Maharishi's heart. I don't > know > > the exact time Doug died or wether it coincided at all with me > walking > > out the dome around 6.45 - 7pm in the evening, but that is my > story of > > having seen (maybe) a supernova. > > > > OffWorld > > > > Cool story, but I don't think supernovae blow up and fizz out in a > matter of > > seconds. > > Not even one? In the whole wide entire universe? >
Not and be a supernova in the definition used by astronomers.
