supernova
Most stars die normal, boring deaths. They burn out their fuel, and then most of them cool and then sit around, dead cold blocks in space with little radiation. Red giants are only about one in a thousand, and when those die, they die violently, and dazzlingly, expelling their material back out into the interstellar regions and radiating an incredible amount of energy. I like the idea that some people are this way in death, too. And when they die, it’s like a fist being tightened until it finally explodes, rendering them larger than they ever were in life, radiating light in the space all around them.
Mark Emodouche said,
September 12th, 2009 at 8:35 am
… and other stars crumple up into a tiny, invisible black hole that sucks everything around it in, and the planets nearby rotate around it like fat kids around a buffet, only the buffet is empty and it’s leaking radiation. And people lightyears away will talk and write books about it. Some people are like that too.
Mark Emodouche said,
September 12th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Wait, aren’t the stars that go supernova also the ones that become black holes? WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE!