5/13/08 One Million Suns

I was watching TV again.

Now NASA researchers believe
that a supernova near the sun exploded,
knocking hundreds of thousands
of meteorites out of their orbits.
This created all the craters on the moon.

But all the explanations seem to involve
the light of one million suns,
billions of light years,
4 and a half gazillion years,
the force of a hundred jillion atomic bombs.

What does that mean?
Ridiculous unfathomable numbers, meaningless
to me really, and then the scientist said,
"For now, we are lucky to be alive."

Oh, okay.
I get it.