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Article #852Re: Blue Sky and Olbers' Paradox
From: John C. Baez
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 16:08
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 16:08
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In article <Aug.6.18.09.01.1992.9408@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes: >Fortunately there are no stars less than a light-year away .... None that are going to go supernova, anyway. As Blair Houghton suggested, why don't we have some estimates about how far away a supernova has to be before it only gives you a bad sunburn?
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!banach!jbaez From: jbaez@banach.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Blue Sky and Olbers' Paradox Message-ID: <1992Aug7.160826.21079@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: banach Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <5AUG199216205357@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Aug6.175354.11670@galois.mit.edu> <Aug.6.18.09.01.1992.9408@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 92 16:08:26 GMT Lines: 8