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A white dwarf close to us could go supernova and wipe us without us being able to do anything about it.
Looks like closest white dwarf is 8.6 light years away. How would that work, would the light from the supernova get here before the radiation/matter/whatever wipes us out? With the star exploding in more or less a 360-degree sphere how much would even hit our solar system?
It could have happened 8.59 years ago
How would it change society if we knew that our entire solar system will be wiped out in a foreseeable future.
In 5 years, in a generarion, this century?
I think most people would draw the line at this millennia.
Historically speaking, the world of our species has always been in a turmoil of great changes with pockets of order and safety.
During the cold war people lived with the fear that everything could come to an end at any time.
Only the ignorant seemed to be unaffected.