(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[Jeff Wilson]

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> What happens in the volume of space around a supernova when the radiation
> wave goes through it? Would anything living here survive if Sirius went
> supernova? Perhaps some thousands or millions of years something else will
> arise....

Kills all life above ground on the Sirius-facing hemisphere and poisons 
the atmosphere. But this won't happen until you see 40% of the sun's 
mass flow from Sirius A to Sirius B.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >