The Future of The Milky Way 6/11

The Science of the Future: Using Technology to Predict Earth's Fate

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[DeuteriumDrones]

We back up data all the time, why aren't we making backups of Earth? There are 170 moons in our Solar System which are just begging to be terraformed. Remember, after we merge with the Andromeda Galaxy, we'll be falling towards the Virgo Super Cluster, and "even more Titanic collisions are in store" for us.

[lmos26]

Personally I would be amazed if our species doesn't destroy itself within the next couple hundred years and that's being generous.

[lmos26]

@TheNiceZombie and speculating anything at all concerning human beings 5 billion years from now is frivolous, just take a moment and actually comprehend how long that is. That's half a billion years longer than the current total life span of the planet itself. The possibilities involved in such a massive scale of time are virtually infinite and well beyond our imagination, considering how radically evolution changes species in just a few a million years.

[lmos26]

@TheNiceZombie As the Red Giant Sun continues to expand, It will begin to cool and become structurally unstable, massive amounts of the Sun's outer plasma layers will start to break away and spread outwards, creating a gaseous nebula, eventually all that will remain is slowly cooling core about the size of the Earth, this cooling off will take a very long time but eventually it will go out and freeze.

[lmos26]

@TheNiceZombie , be completely swallowed or it's even possible that the earth might be pushed out into a more distant "safer" orbit as the sun expands. The reason the sun collapses once it's hydrogen fuel is exhausted, is because the fusion reactions can no longer maintain the necessary the energy to balance "fight" it's own gravity, as it collapses, the core's increasing pressure will begin to burn it's helium and iron in the core. "running on an alternate power source backup generator"

[lmos26]

@TheNiceZombie Actually, It's you who is incorrect and should not be trying to correct others without properly verifying that you are actually right. The real fact is that our star does not have enough solar mass to go super nova. First the sun will run out of hydrogen and the core will begin to collapse, this will generate an immense amount of heat that will rapidly expand the sun to roughly 250 times it's current size "Red Giant" as it continues to expand, earth will either be incinerated

[lonepiranha]

a couple hundred years ago people probably said leaveing the earth was immpossible and technolgy has done wonders. maybe in 500-600 years we have the technology to travel between stars and if we can do that im sure we will have the technolgy to move planets

[FLAME4564]

XD LOL tractor beams moving the planets LOL BULLSHIT that is just eternaly impossible seriously it is really impossibly to try and move a full sized planet.

[kelton5020]

Even if it did explode, jupiter doesn't have the mass to be a sun. It takes lots of gravity to combine elements to have the reaction

[siliconchipped]

10, yes 10 billion years old .. now that is beyond old