(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[Jeff Wilson]

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:46 AM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Some people maybe take this stuff a little too seriously....
> 
>> Seeing such a spirited defense put up for murder on a planetary scale
>> certainly gets one's hackles up.
> 
> What is it, one supernova a year, somewhere in the Universe? And common or
> garden variety novas are much more common, I don't have any idea how
> common.

1 supernova per 50 years in the milky way, billions per year in the 
observable universe. Nova events are more common, but that because of 
repeat occurances, the objects that produce them are less common.

Sun-like stars are too small for either to happen on their own, and any 
sort of intervention to cause one would be grossly obvious.


> I don't see anything to get worked up about, particularly. Everyone dies.
> Sure, not everyone is ready to go and most people suffer some and flail
> about some more, but in the end the result is the same and you might as
> well be calm and cheerful about it. If a bad thing happens, and then you
> have negative emotions about it, two bad things have happened.
> 
> Have you read the Gita?

Sounds a bit more Bardo Thodol.

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