Do you think Betelgeuse is going bang soon?

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Actually I'd hate to see it go.
Orion, one of the oldest human known constellations, would be no more.

But parts of it and maybe all of it are no more at all either, we are just seeing it as it was millions of light years ago

I'm not picking on you, I know what you mean I love Astronomy and its hard to imagine the night sky without Orion.

I was reading somewhere else today that we only get a Supernova in our region of our galaxy about once every 100 years or so, Betelguese even if it had went bang a while back and its light reaches us tomorrow is still far away enough for its gamma rays to not kill us, we'd just enjoy the brightness .. some say as bright as a full moon on a cloudless clear night and some say bright enough to not need street lights at night ... somewhere in the middle maybe ... but imagine that, just imagine that!

Oh well, I've seen some good once in a lifetime Comets, my dad woke me up to see Man landing on the Moon when I was a kid, witnessed the Shuttle era from start to finish ... I'd hoped to have seen a Space Elevator in my lifetime (I'm still only 52) but that seems increasingly unlikely and I expect to live a normal life expectancy ... But I really feel all our experiments so far were just like testing the water, we really need to build economically viable ways to send hardware out of Earth's immediate gravity to enable a stepping stone to go further.

For sure, for our species to survive we need to eventually get out of this Solar System and populate another stars planetary system and ultimately go to other Galaxy's as well.

Can it be done? I doubt it ... I think our species will expire long before populating most of the solar system at best.

I wonder if any species ( and I don't think we are alone in the Universe or even Multiverse ) has managed it, so far there is no proof we have been visited by ET

Oh I wonder.