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Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
iamlucky13 writes "A minor academic debate among astronomers is the final fate of the earth. As the sun ages and enters the red giant stage of its life, it will heat up, making the earth inhospitable. It will also expand, driven by helium fusion so that its outer layers reach past the earth's current orbit. Previously it had been believed that the sun would lose enough mass to allow earth to escape to a more distant orbit, lifeless but intact. However, new calculations, which take into account tidal forces and drag from mass shed by the sun, suggest that the earth will have sufficiently slowed in that time to be dragged down to its utter destruction in 7.6 billion years. "
Wow...talk about global warming!
No Sigs!
But maybe replicating space organisms that live in the Oort cloud will come and put a protective membrane around the Earth before then slowing down the passage of time on Earth in relation to the rest of the galaxy so we can be united with other sentient beings in worlds connected to our own by giant arches poking out of the sea.
Ahh, Robert Charles Wilson, you Spin me right round.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Heck, 7.6 billion years is ok by me; Chun the unavoidable will have been at my elbow by then.
The government can't save you.
And to find this out the day I discover my paxil/zoloft/venlafaxine does nothing.
Beer me.
Hmmm... a 7 digit user id... you must be old here.
Or just build lots of robots and have them all vent out their exhaust pipes in the same direction at the same time.
After 7.6 billion years, it's time to move out of mom's basement.
By that time, mankind will be sufficiently advanced to relocate to an outer planet.....like Pluto.
What? Pluto isn't a planet anymore??
Oh No! We're doomed!!
Have gnu, will travel.
If we do decide to revive the sun by sending a payload of quantum sparkles, I suggest not sending a religious nut-job who is obsessed with sunlight.
My 2c.
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Nonsense. All testing is done by capable and brilliant scientists, now back to my experiment.
Uh, it's probably not a problem, probably, but I'm showing a small discrepancy in... well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
I think I have a "My First Picture Book of the Planets" that says the same thing.
Yes that old childhood science fav- from the publishers of "Garsh Ma, My DNA Made Me Do It!", "The Wondrous Tale of Mr. E. Coli (And Other Gastro-Intestinal Stories)," and "Heat Death! Why Nothing You Do Really Matters".
Look we (well most of us, anyway) survived Crisis on Infinite Earths so what are you blathering about? What could go wrong?
Pffft.... don't touch those numbers, you don't want to know where the GP pulled them out of....
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