I Smell Another “History” Channel Disaster Porn Show
By Mitch Berg
Via, ironically, the Sun:
A STAR primed to explode in a blast that could wipe out the Earth was revealed by astronomers yesterday.
It will self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT.
I look for it on cable in three months.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:36 am
SHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
If Rahm Emanuel hears about this one, he will spend another couple of trillion to build survival bunkers in third world countries because the US will have somehow caused the supernova to explode due to our large carbon foot print.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:38 am
And the History Channel will call it “Life Without Earth”. I’m sure Michel de Nostradam predicted it.
January 7th, 2010 at 8:44 am
This was already a really depressing Nic Cage movie called “Knowing”.
January 7th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Ugh. And more ugh.
The whole genre depresses the crap out of me. Not so much the subject, as the fact that these disaster-pr0n producers find such an eager audience of people that, i my mind’s eye, look like the staff of “Dump Bachmann”.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:04 am
That does it! Foot is denied his spot on the spaceship!
January 7th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Somebody slap a “Cap and Trade” regulation on that star, stat!
At least this gives the NY Times the opportunity to use the headline they’ve been holding onto for all these years:
World About to End: Women, Minorities Most Effected.
January 7th, 2010 at 11:56 am
This has to be a hate crime.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I think I’ll add Ray-Ban to my stock portfolio!
January 7th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I can see the right saying for a while that the star isn’t going to explode at all. Then, they’ll change to it’s going to explode, but there’s nothing we can do about it, and it’s too expensive to build ships to find a new place to live and everyone should just carry a gun to protect themselves from the exploding star.
Trying to save humanity from an exploding star is a socialist plot.
January 7th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
I can see the right saying for a while that the star isn’t going to explode at all.
Well, it does help that model for this potential supernova happens to “predict” past supernovas.
Unlike AGW.
January 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I was born blue and weathered, but I burst just like a supernova.
January 7th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Then, they’ll change to it’s going to explode, but there’s nothing we can do about it
Unlike liberals who will call for the banning of SUVs to prevent a supernova.
January 8th, 2010 at 9:08 am
I can see the Anthropomorphic Star Explosion proponents ignoring the lack of star explosion for as long as possible while attaching blame to any detectable change in the solar system to it’s inevitable arrival (“We can use Nils ‘Astronomy’ trick to hide the apparent stasis”).
When it finally gets too laughable they start calling it Solar System Change: “Did you see that comet? It must be Solar System Change!”.
January 8th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
See, you’re already changing the fact that the star might explode into a liberal plot. Luckily, Jesus will rapture you up before it happens.
January 13th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
The words “changing the fact” and “might” are at odds here. And it would be less a “plot” than a tendency to believe almost anything that doesn’t involve someone named Jesus.