eirenicon comments on Causes of disagreements - Less Wrong

24 Post author: JustinShovelain 16 July 2009 09:51PM

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Comment author: eirenicon 17 July 2009 03:52:15PM 0 points [-]

I would be surprised if the aliens of Eta Carinae had an opinion, as their star system suffered a supernova impostor event about 8000 years ago. Besides, it's a relatively new binary system, only a few million years old: probably not old enough to evolve life, even if something could arise in such an unlikely environment. If there is extraterrestrial life there, though, they're in trouble, as Eta Carinae is expected to actually go supernova within the next million years or so ("within" meaning a million years from now... or next week). So that's where my disagreement with you lies ;)

Comment author: James_K 18 July 2009 03:00:23AM 0 points [-]

He didn't say they were from Eta Carinae, he said they were at there. They could easily be from somewhere else.