In other news … Earth to be imminently destroyed by it’s dying star … imminently in galactic terms.
Nah, our star is middle aged. In the prime of it’s life. It just got a new sports car and is thinking about asking out that new trainer at the gym.
Is that why it’s pulsating and ejecting … stuff?
I’m not sure what you know about stars, but that’s generally what they just do.
Sol should have about a 10billion year life span, and we’re about halfway through it.
I agree … but wasn’t the estimate that in about a billion to two billion years from now, Sol will grow so big that it will basically cook our entire planet and bake off our atmosphere and oceans and render the planet like Mercury. Our planet might be around for a few billion years after but nothing will survive.
Earth will be uninhabitable in a billion or two years yes.
I was responding more so to your original statement:
Earth to be imminently destroyed by it’s dying star
1 billion years the earth may be cooked, but the sun will have 3-5 billion years left before it can’t fuse anymore. It’s more accurate to say Earth will be destroyed by the natural growth of its own star.
The fascinating thing to all this to me was in realizing that everything has an end date … an expiry date … even if that date is millions or billions of years in the future. It doesn’t matter to me or you because we’ll be gone in within this century (barring any miraculous medical changes that allow us to live longer than a hundred years) but there is some sort of strange comfort that we are all equal that way … knowing that no one and nothing is eternal (that we know of so far).
“How’s the pon far going, Ollie?”
“SOMEBODY GONNA DIE”
Live long and prosper, Ollie!
This scene from Terminator reminds me of something… oh yeah:
Sunny with a slight breeze and temperatures rising to 10,000 degrees … but only momentarily … don’t forget to wear your sunscreen!
Quality crossover.
