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Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:10 pm

Dude. Pass that here.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:17 pm

billy bob bocephus wrote:
Bklyn wrote:
Nowhere does this gift shine more brilliantly than this chill-giving mashup by Max Schlickenmeyer, remixing images of nature at its most inspiring with the narration of Neil Tyson’s answer to a TIME magazine reader, who asked, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?”
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ok ... so why isn't humanity's focus on getting off this planet due the imminent (sometime between now and maybe 10 billion years from now) super nova of the sun .. I mean c'mon, if we are to survive as a species the only alternative is to become a species that can survive in intergalactic space

The sun can't go supernova. It's not big enough.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:51 pm

Earth will become too hot for liquid water in roughly 1 billion years. Thats also a long fucking time.

billy bob bocephus · Post by **billy bob bocephus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:18 pm

ok - so survival of the species stiill requires getting off the planet

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:26 pm

And?

Most of the species is convinced that a higher power is running things, so I doubt they care.

billy bob bocephus · Post by **billy bob bocephus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:37 pm

atm thinks the human race is doomed - any other opinions?

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:42 pm

Doomed!

[img2]http://www.voltron.com/images/uploads/doom1.jpg[/img2]

Owlman · Post by **Owlman** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:44 pm

Wait, I thought the yellow sun would turn red and expand out to the asteroid belt in a billion years? Or is that a billion and 1 years?

Owlman · Post by **Owlman** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:46 pm

Well Superman got his powers going from a red sun to a yellow, perhaps we'll all get superpowers going from a yellow to a red son and then we can just fly to another solar system.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:47 pm

Red giant phase is expected to happen roughly 5 billion years from now (10 billion years after the sun was formed). The sun however in its current main sequence is getting hotter all the time. Eart will be too hot for life in under a billion years.

billy bob bocephus · Post by **billy bob bocephus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:52 pm

billy bob bocephus wrote:atm thinks the human race is doomed - any other opinions?

again - any other opinions?

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:53 pm

Whats yours?

billy bob bocephus · Post by **billy bob bocephus** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:03 pm

mine is that homo sapiens has the ability to survive and prosper

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:05 pm

Elegant.

10ac · Post by **10ac** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:14 pm

sun however in its current main sequence is getting hotter all the time. Eart will be too hot for life in under a billion years.

Blasphemy. Algore shall smite thee.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:39 pm

In a billion years im betting a relative of 10ac and a relative of mine will cohabitate. Better to blow it up sooner.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:08 pm

Heh, I think we'll find a way to end our time here way before the Earth ends its time in the universe.

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:02 am

but since we're all just little pieces of the universe anyway, we'll just end up coagulating somewhere else and picking up where we left off. I wonder if Crow will still be boycotting us then.

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:23 am

the moon is moving away from us and at some point its gravitational pull will no longer keep us spinning evenly on our axis resulting in extreme and unpredictable weather patterns, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc.,

That will probably happen before the sun goes boom

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:16 am

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