Fuck You Sun!
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Scientist have nailed down how and when the Earth will cease to exist.
The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough.
Our home planet will be snagged by the sun's outer atmosphere, gradually plunging to its doom inside the fiery stellar furnace.
"The drag caused by this low-density gas is enough to cause the Earth to drift inwards, and finally to be captured and vaporized by the sun," explains astronomer Robert Smith of the University of Sussex in southern England.
Previous projections had all figured that the Earth would avoid falling into the sun, even during our star's red-giant phase.
The good news: This won't happen for another 7.6 billion years.
The bad news: Life on Earth will end long before then.
In fact, we've only got a billion years left before the slowly expanding sun boils off the oceans and reduces our planet to an uninhabitable cinder, says Smith.
That may sound like a long time, but in fact life on Earth's been around a lot longer than that — a total of 3.7 billion years, according to the latest estimates.
For those first three billion years, true, we were nothing but pond scum. Still, the new figures indicate the long story of life on our fair blue-green planet may be entering its last act.
Is there any way our future descendants can save themselves? Why, yes, explains Smith.
He cites a recent study emanating from the University of California, Santa Cruz. It proposes taming an asteroid to swing by the Earth every few thousand years, slowly nudging the Earth into higher solar orbit, enough to outpace the sun's own outward growth.
"This sounds like science fiction," says Smith. "But it seems that the energy requirements are just about possible and the technology could be developed over the next few centuries."
Solutions we kill the sun before it kills us!
1) Wait it out! The Sun has almost gone through the first half of his life. In about 5-6 billion years the Sun will become a red giant, swallowing the Earth and scraping the orbit of Jupiter. A new theory postulates that after that phase the sun will deflate and turn into a white dwarf star.
2) Create a black hole in the center of the Sun. It would eventually swallow the Earth as well, but we are goners either way..
3) Create a wormhole and transport the Sun somewhere else in space. It doesn't destroy the Sun, but it gets that pesky star out of the way...
I know my solutions keep sounding more and more like science fiction, but that's what you get when you want to destroy a Sun. Anyway, going on:
4) Cover the whole Sun with advanced solar panels. That way you get no light coming to Earth and you can keep all of the energy. Maybe you 'll have enough to build that planet-smashing laser you 've always wanted...
5) Force our Sun to collide with another star. You may also get your black hole that way. Making a black hole from scratch isn't easy, you know...
The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough.
Our home planet will be snagged by the sun's outer atmosphere, gradually plunging to its doom inside the fiery stellar furnace.
"The drag caused by this low-density gas is enough to cause the Earth to drift inwards, and finally to be captured and vaporized by the sun," explains astronomer Robert Smith of the University of Sussex in southern England.
Previous projections had all figured that the Earth would avoid falling into the sun, even during our star's red-giant phase.
The good news: This won't happen for another 7.6 billion years.
The bad news: Life on Earth will end long before then.
In fact, we've only got a billion years left before the slowly expanding sun boils off the oceans and reduces our planet to an uninhabitable cinder, says Smith.
That may sound like a long time, but in fact life on Earth's been around a lot longer than that — a total of 3.7 billion years, according to the latest estimates.
For those first three billion years, true, we were nothing but pond scum. Still, the new figures indicate the long story of life on our fair blue-green planet may be entering its last act.
Is there any way our future descendants can save themselves? Why, yes, explains Smith.
He cites a recent study emanating from the University of California, Santa Cruz. It proposes taming an asteroid to swing by the Earth every few thousand years, slowly nudging the Earth into higher solar orbit, enough to outpace the sun's own outward growth.
"This sounds like science fiction," says Smith. "But it seems that the energy requirements are just about possible and the technology could be developed over the next few centuries."
Solutions we kill the sun before it kills us!
1) Wait it out! The Sun has almost gone through the first half of his life. In about 5-6 billion years the Sun will become a red giant, swallowing the Earth and scraping the orbit of Jupiter. A new theory postulates that after that phase the sun will deflate and turn into a white dwarf star.
2) Create a black hole in the center of the Sun. It would eventually swallow the Earth as well, but we are goners either way..
3) Create a wormhole and transport the Sun somewhere else in space. It doesn't destroy the Sun, but it gets that pesky star out of the way...
I know my solutions keep sounding more and more like science fiction, but that's what you get when you want to destroy a Sun. Anyway, going on:
4) Cover the whole Sun with advanced solar panels. That way you get no light coming to Earth and you can keep all of the energy. Maybe you 'll have enough to build that planet-smashing laser you 've always wanted...
5) Force our Sun to collide with another star. You may also get your black hole that way. Making a black hole from scratch isn't easy, you know...
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Shinji wrote...
fiery stellar furnace.The sun doesnt technically "burn" or even have "flames", it fuses.
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By that time humans will develop enough spiral energy to move the entire fucking earth out of the way.
Row row.
Row row.
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brok3n butterfly wrote...
Shinji wrote...
fiery stellar furnace.The sun doesnt technically "burn" or even have "flames", it fuses.
Utsuho's Nuclear Fusion outstrips the power of our Sun's nuclear fusion correct?
Also, either we will burn with the sun or we teleport the sun away and freeze, only for a grain of sand flying throughout the cosmos to hit and shatter the Earth.
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Sneakyone wrote...
Thanks for the lesson Shinji.Thank you!
I guess colonizing Mars is pointless now :(
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Foreground Eclipse wrote...
brok3n butterfly wrote...
Shinji wrote...
fiery stellar furnace.The sun doesnt technically "burn" or even have "flames", it fuses.
Utsuho's Nuclear Fusion outstrips the power of our Sun's nuclear fusion correct?
Also, either we will burn with the sun or we teleport the sun away and freeze, only for a grain of sand flying throughout the cosmos to hit and shatter the Earth.
Given that its Gensokyo, thats very likely. I think humanity will have moved to another solar system (or be extinct) by the time this sun goes through its end of life crisis
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brok3n butterfly wrote...
Foreground Eclipse wrote...
brok3n butterfly wrote...
Shinji wrote...
fiery stellar furnace.The sun doesnt technically "burn" or even have "flames", it fuses.
Utsuho's Nuclear Fusion outstrips the power of our Sun's nuclear fusion correct?
Also, either we will burn with the sun or we teleport the sun away and freeze, only for a grain of sand flying throughout the cosmos to hit and shatter the Earth.
Given that its Gensokyo, thats very likely. I think humanity will have moved to another solar system (or be extinct) by the time this sun goes through its end of life crisis
I thought so.
Definitely true, unless someone leaves launch codes lying around. We'll be far out of our system.
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mangaka350 wrote...
Another thread about the end of the world??? :VAn actual thread about the end of the world though
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Fuck you Shinji ^____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________^
