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The Eventual Death of the Sun




I found an interesting (if simplistic) illustration of the predicted future for the sun. It'll take a billion years, but eventually it will run out of the fuel that allows it to operate in its current state. It becomes a lot less friendly then. I figure our species will be off to other habitable rocks long before then though.
11-20-2013 11:58 PM
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RE: The Eventual Death of the Sun
Yeah, just considering the advancement in technology in just the past 100 years, we'll have long found an extraterrestial solution - whether it's manmade like in Elysium or on another planet - within 1,000,000,000 years.

However, that assumes that the human race hasn't offed itself by then, which I consider a greater probability.
11-21-2013 11:19 AM
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RE: The Eventual Death of the Sun
I figure we'll just build the real Spaceball 1. They even have a zoo on that thing!

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11-21-2013 11:31 AM
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RE: The Eventual Death of the Sun
Like you said, step one would be not offing ourselves before feasible colonization of other habitable planets can be accomplished. Kinda makes me wish that we'd finally wise up as a species; we're making progress, but the petty things are keeping us from bringing our full productive potential to bear on the development of this technology.

Just hope they take pictures when they scram off this rock. It's a part of human history and its going to get the "plastic army man in the microwave" treatment eventually.
11-21-2013 01:49 PM
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RE: The Eventual Death of the Sun
It is easier to colonize Mars than it is to reorbit the Earth. And Mars will NOT be engulfed by the Sun.

And we are just as far away from being able to actually live in space as we are from being able to controllably reorbit the planet. We just don't make things capable of lasting long enough, and our recycling ability is amateur at best, and we don't have a way of reliably generating lots of power with very little mass over thousands of years.
11-21-2013 04:08 PM
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RE: The Eventual Death of the Sun
(11-21-2013 04:08 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  It is easier to colonize Mars than it is to reorbit the Earth. And Mars will NOT be engulfed by the Sun.

And we are just as far away from being able to actually live in space as we are from being able to controllably reorbit the planet. We just don't make things capable of lasting long enough, and our recycling ability is amateur at best, and we don't have a way of reliably generating lots of power with very little mass over thousands of years.

Humans won't be around when the Sun dies in 4.5 billion years. Humanity has only existed for a couple million years; there's no telling what another 4.5 billion years of evolution will do to us.
11-29-2013 08:51 PM
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I'll sell my bonds.
11-30-2013 07:41 AM
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