[extropy-chat] Supernova close to Earth

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:05 PM 11/4/2004 +0100, Patrick Wilken wrote:

>According to this report a supernova occurred 100-200 light years distant 
>about 2.8 million years ago:
>
>http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-5.html
>
>Authors make the grandiose statement that their supernova may have been 
>directly responsible for the emergence of Homo sapiens as a dominant 
>species due to resultant changes in climate.

That would be the one I conjectured in THE DREAMING DRAGONS back in 1980. :)

There, it was also responsible for the emergence of H. sap., but by 
somewhat... different... means.

Damien Broderick