--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > 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.>>
She stated, in the same emphatic fashion that some used to say that the Earth cannot revolve around the Sun. OffWorld
