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Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death
coondoggie writes "In about 5 billion years, our Sun will face a nasty death. Scientists with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics this week released dramatic new pictures of a dying star much like the Sun, about 550 light-years from Earth. According to the researchers, Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that if it were in our solar system it would swallow every planet out to Mars and cook the asteroid belt. The star has started to pulse dramatically, beating like a giant heart with a period of 408 days." The research team produced a video of the pulsating star, using infrared images captured via very long baseline interferometry.
We'll be long gone - either in spacial or temporal sense - in a tiny fraction of that time. Even if there are no asteroid impact, killer viruses and so on, we will eventually deplete all natural resources - including ones need to make solar cells and wind turbines - and release enough long-lasting pollutants to make life unsustainable. So, an interesting astronomical curiosity, but no impact on our distant descendants. Now lets go work on being gone spacialy.
What up you sorry European pieces of shit? Yeah, you know what you are you maggot fuckers. You rat bastards are crawling out of your third world caves right about now to go defecate on the train on the way to the fucking gulag shit job you work at you socialist pricks. Why don't you fucks invent something instead of trying to take credit for other peoples' work? Fucking Linux is just a rip off of Unix and you fucking know it. Euro-tards can't even come up with one legitimate operating system. And don't give me that Symbian shit and make me laugh even harder. Could you imagine a smelly European coming up with technology to rival Windows 7 or BSD or OSX? Hahahahahah!! Yeah, I know, tell you another one right? You people are pathetic. Where are the European Googles? The Microsofts? The Apples? The Oracles? The IBM's? They don't exist do they? Because Europeans are complete fucking idiots.
Fucking sorry motherfuckers. I hope you all just reach in your pants, pinch your butt cheeks off and die a horrible blood filled death.