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Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought

Posted by samzenpus on from the plenty-of-time dept.

sciencehabit writes "Take a deep breath—Earth is not going to die as soon as scientists believed. Two new modeling studies find that the gradually brightening sun won't vaporize our planet's water for at least another 1 billion to 1.5 billion years—hundreds of millions of years later than a slightly older model had forecast. The findings won't change your retirement plans but could imply that habitable, Earth-like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought."

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  1. Damn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish you'd told me this yesterday.

  2. That's a relief! by narcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    The older prediction had me worried.

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    Required reading for internet skeptics
    1. Re:That's a relief! by Eunuchswear · · Score: 3, Funny

      Scene: a lecture theatre.

      Lecturer: .... and in 1 billion to 1.5 billion years the sun will vaporise all the oceans...
      Student: What!
      Lecturer: I said that in around 1 billion to 1.5 billion years...
      Student: Oh! That's a relief, I thought you said Million!

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  3. Challenge accepted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Challenge accepted, bitches!

  4. terrible news by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to wreak havok with the GNU/Hurd development schedule.

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    1. Re:terrible news by ccanucs · · Score: 3, Funny

      And the Perl 6 final release schedule :-)

  5. Re:Damn... by Sique · · Score: 3, Funny

    We don't have many successful end-of-world-predictions to draw conclusions from.

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