Post #27,241
2/4/02 3:48:54 PM
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Got some bad news for y'all...
The upcoming "intersection" of a nearby neighbor and our galaxy is expected to send a large amount of matter into the gigantic black hole at the center of our galaxy, and produce enough radiation to make life a questionable thing in our galaxy.
How long we got?
About 3 billion years. Better start packin'!
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #27,286
2/4/02 6:50:08 PM
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Darn! Looks like I'll have to move
and I'll take my [link|http://www.alexchiu.com/|Immortality Rings] with me in 3 billion years. :)
Hmmm, I may have to use a [link|http://www.timecube.com/|Timecube] as it is almost as good as a TARDIS. :)
Just kidding. Science Quackery can be fun!
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Post #27,609
2/7/02 1:00:39 AM
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The *entire* galaxy?
That is an awful lot of radiation.
Oh well. Just kick back and enjoy the view:
[link|http://geocities.com/astroviews/item61.htm|
[link|http://geocities.com/astroviews/item61.htm|http://geocities.co...s/item61.htm]]
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Post #27,745
2/7/02 10:17:54 PM
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Galaxy Merger
Yes, but 50% of all inhabitants of both galaxies will be "Downsized" in Corporate terms. :)
Ah, all this galaxy is made out of is junk, gas, stars, and planets that move around one very very big black hole that is covered up with gas, junk, and other crap. Someone get a big can of cosmic Draino! Looks like it might get stopped up! :)
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Post #27,770
2/8/02 4:33:05 AM
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Re: Galaxy Merger
...and most of the productive elements are going to be sacrificed to some goat- (and everything else in the universes) -sucking heap of dark that never did nothin' productive for nobody.
I think we've got a new corporate metaphore.
Good one, Norm. Got a belly laugh here.
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Post #27,881
2/8/02 11:15:29 PM
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Yip: Hot air orbiting a black hole == PHB Paradise
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Post #28,429
2/14/02 10:09:33 PM
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No ****.
Yeah, it's a lot of radiation.
Just remember, Mother Nature don't give a shit. This universe was not made for your pleasure.
'Course, as somebody pointed out, by that time if we haven't unmade the universe (read The Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman to see what I'm babbling about - but get it at the library, it's a crappy book!) in a fit of self-destructive fury, we'll probably EAT that kind of radiation. :-)
So it all works out in the end.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #28,529
2/15/02 2:42:27 PM
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Gamma rays are scary stuff
Under just the right conditions, it is speculated that one stupid star can blast off enuf gamma radiation to fry *every* planet in a Galaxy, or at least every one in the primary gamma ray jet path thru the galaxy.
Thus, a star on the *opposite* side of our sun in the Milky Way can blow its top way over there and cook us all.
Amazing. Now that would make an interesting Trek movie: Hypernovea Terrorists. Then again, it would likely take hundreds or thousands of years for the the radiation to travel to its destination. But, reality never stopped the writers before.
The Romulans could set off Beetlejiuce, for example. It is nearly ready to blow anyhow I hear.
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Post #28,532
2/15/02 2:50:38 PM
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Oh, they could just
use the slingshot manuver perfected by Spock to go back in time, set of the supernova, then come forward after the fun is over....
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #28,599
2/16/02 1:07:38 AM
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And this last... ___is why
No homo-sap type carbon units will ever be allowed anywhere near the Source code! Just too inherently flaky and destructive to let outta the crib..
Ashton
recalling the Tralfamadorian who just Had to test that -
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Post #30,277
3/1/02 1:42:44 AM
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The end may be even sooner: 500 million years
The barbeque is just around the corner perhaps. An interesting anthropic principle phenom that the sun has been fairly stable for the last 4.5 billion years despite the feul ratio change. (Of course, the religious probably say God planned/tuned it that way on purpose.)
From:
[link|http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/death_of_earth_000224.html|http://www.space.co..._000224.html]
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"The sun \ufffd is getting brighter with time and that affects the Earth's climate," Kasting said. "Eventually temperatures will become high enough so that the oceans evaporate."
And, Kasting said, a cataclysmic finale may come even sooner. As Earth becomes a global desert, carbon dioxide levels are expected to drop. At a certain level, which he and his colleagues say might be achieved in half a billion years, there would not be enough carbon dioxide to support photosynthesis, and most plants would die.
Remaining plants would not be sufficient to support a biosphere, Kasting contends. So while the entire planet might incinerated in a few billion years, or cast off into a deep freeze, it's possible that life on Earth is already in the sunset years.
"If we calculated correctly, Earth has been habitable for 4.5 billion years and only has a half-billion years left," Kasting said.
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Post #30,436
3/1/02 11:30:02 PM
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Even sooner than that
if we don't stop polluting the planet and turning it into a toxic toliet bowl. Someone invent the Warp-Drive so we can get out of here and colonize another planet.
Gee, in 500 million years, when the sun gets hotter, do you think we can move to Mars or one of Jupiter's moons because it will be hotter there as well? Just create greenhouse bubble domes to live in, and Terraform the land on the bottom of them to grow trees, food, and other stuff.
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