blondiesbrain:

This is the kind of pessimistic quote I like!

Grump: This keeps getting passed around, but it&amp;#8217;s almost totally wrong. Most stars visible to the naked eye are probably within a few hundred light years. Stellar lifetimes are millions of years, so it&amp;#8217;s exceedingly unlikely that a random star you&amp;#8217;ve picked has died in the last few hundred years.