--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: <snip> > > Nevertheless, supernovae are not seen from earth > > to flare up and die out in a matter of seconds. > > > You could be right, based on the recorded evidence, but I don't > think that rules out the probability that this could have been an > actual astronomical event witnessed from earth, yet not recorded > before? Possibly as some have suggested, something that looked like > a super nova, but wasn't. Who knows? I just figure the odds are in > the favor, given the vast size of the observable Universe, of a > newly discovered, or unrecorded event, not yet incorporated into our > current body of knowledge regarding observable astronomical > phenomenon. (whew- that's a mouthful).
I said earlier that it could have been some even more exotic event. But it couldn't have been a supernova.
