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  • Two Months Left to Move South

    From quadibloc@quadibloc@gmail.com to sci.astro.amateur on Tue Sep 3 08:44:50 2024
    From Newsgroup: sci.astro.amateur

    One month ago, videos were posted to YouTube claiming that Dr. Neil
    DeGrasse Tyson proclaimed that the star Polaris had just exploded - and
    we had just three months left before the effects of this would reach
    Earth with catastrophic results.

    I found this out after YouTube suggested a recent repost of that video
    to me. But my search did not turn up anything about what he _really_
    said, just this clickbait nonsense.

    John Savard
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  • From Chris L Peterson@clp@alumni.caltech.edu to sci.astro.amateur on Tue Sep 3 08:13:27 2024
    From Newsgroup: sci.astro.amateur

    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 08:44:50 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    One month ago, videos were posted to YouTube claiming that Dr. Neil
    DeGrasse Tyson proclaimed that the star Polaris had just exploded - and
    we had just three months left before the effects of this would reach
    Earth with catastrophic results.

    I found this out after YouTube suggested a recent repost of that video
    to me. But my search did not turn up anything about what he _really_
    said, just this clickbait nonsense.

    John Savard

    If they're going to invent this silliness, at least they could choose
    a star that plausibly would represent some risk to Earth if it
    "exploded".
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