it's the end of the world as we know it.

[cuteybunny]

The Sun is about 4.5 billion years old. Since its birth it has used up about half of the hydrogen in its core. It will continue to radiate "peacefully" for another 5 billion years or so (although its luminosity will approximately double in that time). But eventually it will run out of hydrogen fuel. It will then be forced into radical changes which, though commonplace by stellar standards, will result in the total destruction of the Earth (and probably the creation of a planetary nebula). link

The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another five billion years or so. At the end of its life, the Sun will start to fuse helium into heavier elements and begin to swell up, ultimately growing so large that it will swallow the Earth. After a billion years as a red giant, it will suddenly collapse into a white dwarf -- the final end product of a star like ours. It may take a trillion years to cool off completely.
link

 

[ChristopherBlue]

Work's on Monday.

 

[Ns1]

not my problem lol

 

[VirusDub]

Uh, thanks for the warning?

 

[Keego]

does this mean I don't need to do my math homework?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

<< The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years >>


I'd better build my trans-warp gate now, because science is NEVER wrong...


Whats an atom?

 

[gopunk]

meh

 

[trmiv]

Hmmm. Well.....I feel fine.

 

[BoberFett]

Is anybody thinking what I'm thinking?



WORLDS LARGEST WEINIE ROAST!!!

 

[PliotronX]

It's comin' right for us!!!!!!! *BLAM BLAM*

 

[ChrisIsBored]

atom was some dude that knocked up this chick named eve...

 

[Logix]

I wish the fuel in my car lasted that long.

 

[Valhalla1]

there was a recent link on /. or ars, supposedly scientists are thinking that earth will drift away into space when our sun becomes a giant star, ingulfing mercury and venus.. the story before had always been that earth would be swallowed up by the sun as well

 

[Heisenberg]

Damn...and I had some sweet real estate deals lined up.

 

[Moonbeam]

We are in the very dangerous and difficult process of becomming a Type One Civilization. While the odds of us making it don't look good, we will, if we make it, be able from there to look forward to achieving
Type Two, Three, and then Four. We will, at Type four, essentially be like the Q. The demise of the sun will have long ceased to be a problem.

 

[tcsenter]

For some reason, I don't think "Hey, the earth is going to be swallowed-up by the sun in a few billion years, let's you and me go out with a bang, baby" is going to be a very effective line at the bar. Although, I've used some worse ones, so what the heck...

 

[rc5]

One billion years is more than enough for us to master the tech to convert matter to energy directly. That can last us a very very long period, probably one billion trillion years. After that, we will come out with something else.

 

[J3anyus]

<< We are in the very dangerous and difficult process of becomming a Type One Civilization. While the odds of us making it don't look good, we will, if we make it, be able from there to look forward to achieving
Type Two, Three, and then Four. We will, at Type four, essentially be like the Q. The demise of the sun will have long ceased to be a problem. >>



Umm...right. Uh huh. Sure. Yeah. Mmm-hmm...something like that. My thoughts exactly.

 

[Muadib]

The aliens will have taken us over by then anyway, so who cares?

 

[skace]

<< it's the end of the world as we know it >>



...and I feel fine!~

 

[Jfur]

<< We are in the very dangerous and difficult process of becomming a Type One Civilization. While the odds of us making it don't look good, we will, if we make it, be able from there to look forward to achieving
Type Two, Three, and then Four. We will, at Type four, essentially be like the Q. The demise of the sun will have long ceased to be a problem. >>




^
| what he said

 

[Nitemare]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs.
Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no.
Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height.
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site.
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low plane!
Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the sun as we know it.
It's the end of the sun as we know it.
It's the end of the sun as we know it and I feel fine.

 

[jjones]

I guess this means it's time to stock up on sunblock?

 

[element]

<< We are in the very dangerous and difficult process of becomming a Type One Civilization. While the odds of us making it don't look good, we will, if we make it, be able from there to look forward to achieving
Type Two, Three, and then Four. We will, at Type four, essentially be like the Q. The demise of the sun will have long ceased to be a problem. >>



Oh great no need to worry about the sun then. Now we can worry about how the human race will #$%@ up the whole universe when they become Q-like. Seeing as how we've polluted the $#!T out of the planet we're on...

 

[HelloBrother]

Can this theory put the Islamic Jihadis at bay.