If #Betelgeuse does go supernova, it will be interesting what effects it will have on mass communication. It's likely we'd see cell phone towers overloaded from people calling each other, internet outages from the extreme spikes in load / bandwidth -- It would be quite the thing.
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People are asking about this. Basically, Betelgeuse is a variable star, brightening and dimming with time in complicated ways. This group is reporting it’s dimmer than usual, by about a factor of 2. twitter.com/astronomerstel…
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