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Do you want e-mail alerts about a rise in neutrino bombardment? Of course you do, if you want to get a head-start looking for a supernova.

Neutrinos are one of the products of a supernova. Though they are produced all the time by stars, a much greater number of them result from a supernova. Since neutrinos are weakly interacting particles, they don't bounce around as much as photons and other particles. This means that they get a head-start on the explosion. Usually an increase in neutrinos means there's somethings up, and it's time to turn your telescope to the sky or head to a bomb shelter. That's because a sudden spike in neutrinos might be caused by a nuclear explosion.

In 60 years there will be a unshaven single man playing World of Warcraft here yelling at his mom that he is too busy to empty the freakin' cats' litter box.