The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
I'll miss the ol' gal after she blows, but man...It'll be a hell of a show.
"The star may only have one hundred thousand years left to burn."
So it may be THREE THOUSAND GENERATIONS before this happens...
It would be cool as hell to be alive just at the right time to witness something so cool, but I'm not holding my breath.
"SEND IT" happens to be my trigger words...
I wonder if the intelligent alien life on any M-Class planet orbiting that star managed to escape? Or in a Bones McCoy sounding statement: "They're dead, Jim".
Maj. USAR (Ret) 160th SOAR, 2/17 CAV
NRA Life Member
Black Mesa Ranch. Raising Fine Cattle and Horses in San Miguel County since 1879
I don't think it has ever been possible for an ELP to exist in orbit of Betelgeuse.
Even if it had, Betelgeuse is estimated to be only around 10 million years old, forming shortly before humans and chimps diverged from gorillas. The earliest forms of life didn't appear on earth until the earth was at least 32 times older than Betelgeuse is now - and the earliest liquid water formed on earth when earth was about ten times the age of Betelgeuse today.
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
Nothing lately like SN1054, but they happen! Owning a big telescope doesn't hurt, either.
- Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape - Sam (Robert DeNiro) in, "Ronin" -
Well, there can be only one. Emerson did go through a phase where he was wearing leather jackets like that so it caught me off-guard seeing ELP.
Acquired taste, but he was very very good.
I never got the performance thing until youtube then I saw him stabbing a knife in a Hammond b3 to get the note he wanted to keep playing, then tilt the thing over on his belly and play toccata and fugue in d Minor upside down, all to the bass line of fanfare for a common man as part of an extended solo.
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