[extropy-chat] Supernova close to Earth

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> 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.

Tabloid headline: Planet Krypton found....

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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