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THE IMPORTANCE OF DEATH RAYS FROM SPACE: ?Although 30 light-years is small on a galactic scale, Fie?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE IMPORTANCE OF DEATH RAYS FROM SPACE: “Although 30 light-years is small on a galactic scale, Fields thinks it likely that Earth has been caught in a supernova ‘kill radius’ as many as a dozen times over our 4.5-billion-year history.” I can live with those odds, I guess, but it would be better if we were widely dispersed throughout the galaxy.

Related (well, sort of): Make Plans Now: Earth to Be Destroyed in 2049.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).