The End Not As Near As We Thought

HiyaPower writes: "According to recent calculations cited by this article in TheAge, the calculations that the sun would expand to a red giant and engulf the earth are wrong. It will expand, but due to the loss of solar mass over time due to the conversion of mass into energy, the earth will spiral enough further away thus avoiding the fate of Venus and Mercury. Personally I find this a great relief, I had some long term plans that I had been putting off..."

Comments

heh

[coldshado]

riiight.

at least someone's keeping track. . .

[sydney]

As much as a procrastinator as I am, its always reassuring to know I have even MORE time to put things off.

Hmm...

[tunah]

According to recent calculations

What happened to the old calculations? Did some new information come to light or did they forget to carry the three last time?

Re:I wouldn't put too much hope in this

[Antity-H]

However we still have to remember that one of these ice cap is not over water but over land , the volume of this end cap (the south one if i remember correctly and yes i am too lazy to check) will add to the volume of the ocean so the level should rise take it like this if you prefer if you put an ice cube in a glass when it melts, the level of the watr won't rise now take the same glass and put the ice cube on a fork over the glass and watch how the level of the water rises (if the glass is big enough you can put the fork just level with the water put the ice cube over it and watch the fork be submerged) sorry for our friends from netherland but the full melting of both ice cap would make the general level of oceans rise

Since we're gonna kill ourselves anyway

[ColGraff]

Does this really matter? We all know some ass is going to push The Button, or unleash a super-virus, or some damn thing within a few hundred years - it's plain luck we've lasted this long without a nuclear war.