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> Betelgeuse is anticipated to explode as a supernova in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years.

Too long. Speed it up.

Let's put all this cancer research on hold and figure out a way to accelerate heavy metal burning in stellar cores!

No different than spending money on the military to accelerate heavy arms ordinance manufacturing instead of hospitals and schools.

All current human activity combined will have less impact on when the star explodes than a single snarky comment has on heavy ordinance manufacturing.

Space is big.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=size%20Betelgeuse%2Fsiz...

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