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05-29-2011, 06:31 PM | #1 |
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The Sun is converting about 5 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This sounds like a lot, but it only has enough fuel for another 5 billion years. When the Sun does run out of fuel, it will swell up to become a red giant star, expanding in size beyond the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Astronomers even think it will swallow up the Earth as well. Even if the Earth survives, the intense heat from the red sun will scorch our palnet and make it completely impossible for life to survive.
Once it has become a red giant, the Sun’s death is just around the corner. It will still have enough heat and pressure at its core to begin a second stage of fusion, burning helium this time to form carbon. But when the helium runs out, the Sun won’t have enough gravity to keep the core temperature and pressure up to burn carbon. At this point, the Sun will slough off its outer layers into space in a series of bursts. The dying core of the Sun, an Earth-sized diamond of carbon and oxygen called a white dwarf, will be all that remains. It will slowly cool off over billions of years, eventually reaching the background temperature of the Universe. It will then be a black dwarf. The Sun’s death will be complete. Am i the only one concerned about this? |
05-29-2011, 06:33 PM | #2 |
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Yes
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05-29-2011, 06:47 PM | #3 |
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Don't worry. I'm working on it.
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05-29-2011, 06:56 PM | #4 |
DDP did it better
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5 billon years you say? This planet wil be dead long before that happens.Do you really have that much faith that humans will survive that long?
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05-29-2011, 06:56 PM | #5 |
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Well, i guess the human race needs to get ontheball and start looking for some bigger better planet to terraform to our needs, that way allof our super megagrandkids will have a safe place to keep the joe collections, just think, if there were still some joe stuff left 1 billion years from now, owned by the face of mog
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05-29-2011, 06:57 PM | #6 |
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By that time we will be masters of time travel and will all move back in time.
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05-29-2011, 07:05 PM | #7 |
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5 billion years? Well it's gonna take that long to get some POC on my pegs.
Better get a new hobby. |
05-29-2011, 07:10 PM | #8 |
Zombie Soldier HAHA!
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That's it.....
I'm going to Reach.
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05-29-2011, 08:40 PM | #9 |
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Haha, alright OSOK - you need to confess. The grammar in your OP is just-about perfect. You copied and pasted that, didn't you?!
Yeah, the Earth is screwed in about 5 billion years. Let's hope we're into Star Trek shit by then - so we can get the f**k outta there! Last edited by Cobra Terrorist; 05-29-2011 at 08:44 PM.. |
05-29-2011, 08:56 PM | #10 |
unnecessary
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The Sun is converting about 5 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This sounds like a lot, but it only has enough fuel for another 5 billion years. When the Sun does run out of fuel, it will swell up to become a red giant star, expanding in size beyond the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Astronomers even think it will swallow up the Earth as well. Even if the Earth survives, the intense heat from the red sun will scorch our palnet and make it completely impossible for life to survive.
Once it has become a red giant, the Sun’s death is just around the corner. It will still have enough heat and pressure at its core to begin a second stage of fusion, burning helium this time to form carbon. But when the helium runs out, the Sun won’t have enough gravity to keep the core temperature and pressure up to burn carbon. At this point, the Sun will slough off its outer layers into space in a series of bursts. The dying core of the Sun, an Earth-sized diamond of carbon and oxygen called a white dwarf, will be all that remains. It will slowly cool off over billions of years, eventually reaching the background temperature of the Universe. It will then be a black dwarf. The Sun’s death will be complete. Am i the only one concerned about this? you need to be worried about quantity not quality... now get back to the norm.... (...) O_o \\m// ,.!..
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