--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I apologize to Offworld -- I lost control and just started typing and > I got low and mean while doing it, my bad -- I study astronomy and > whatever he saw in the sky wasn't a short-lived supernova -- it could > have been as simple as two dust motes colliding in space at thousands > of miles per second and producing an explosion that only he saw, but > it sure wasn't a whole star blowing up and completely going dark in a > short time. Even a white dwarf that sucks material off a companion > star will not blow off that material -- as it does regularly -- in any > kind of "flash bulb" way. It could have been almost anything BUT a > supernova. Even if the speed of light, etc., were different 10 > billion years ago, it would be very difficult to imagine conditions > that would produce a "flashbulb" supernova.
That's a very gracious apology, but you might want to conside making one to the rest of us as well. Several people *did* attempt to point out to Offworld that there was no such thing as a "flashbulb" supernova, yet you shrieked rather nastily at all of us for not having corrected him.
