Probably no lives were lost. The chance of there being a planet in the goldilocks zone of a star is very small, the chance of that planet then having the right atmosphere to sustain life is minute.
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The supernova may have caused an extinction event in its region of about 500 light years, but even for that the chance isn't big.
jul 25, 2025, 7:49 am • 3 0 • view
We only have one example of life. If we ever get to AGI, we'll have two. It's not too wild to imagine that different, absolutely inconceivable lifeforms exist in ways of being we can not fathom!
jul 26, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
Imagine thinking a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars—each with planets—couldn’t possibly host life, or be the more likely option, just because we haven’t found it yet. The universe: ancient, vast, and full of possibilities. Your knowledge of it: smaller than a Goldilocks zone.
jul 25, 2025, 9:23 am • 23 1 • view
Yeah but don't misrepresent what "theplasmawolf" said. That whole galaxy doesn't count for your OP - it's not about whether life could exist around some of its hundreds of billions of stars. What counts is ONLY the particular star that went supernova plus some in its vicinity. Life very unlikely.
jul 25, 2025, 12:39 pm • 0 0 • view
We know this galaxy. Well, actually we don't, but we know a little about this galaxy. We have no way of knowing if that's consistent. For all we know, there are a hundred billion stars in that galaxy, each with life bearing planets.
jul 26, 2025, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
Again, you're using the stellar population of that entire galaxy as the basis for your argument and incorrectly applying it to a very very tiny sub-volume of stars close to the supernova. And your original "billions of beings lost their lives" implied advanced lifeforms, which is even less likely.
jul 28, 2025, 10:23 am • 0 0 • view
Probably, but life on Earth started when it had a reducing atmosphere. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide with significant hydrogen sulphide as well as ammonia and methane. Simple life, cyranobacteria that released oxygen. It also seems that extrasolar planets within goldilocks zones are reasonably common.
jul 26, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view