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

[Kenazo]

well, being that we evolved from monkeys w/in the last 100million years, i highly doubt we will be our dumb pathetic selves in the next 5 billion years. if life can come this far in the first 4.5 billion years, i'm sure we can get far better w/in the next 5 billion. and get our sorry ass's off the planet.

 

[markrb]

OH NO! Bruce Willis died at the end of Armageddon.
He would have saved us.

Mark

 

[iamwiz82]

<< Can this theory put the Islamic Jihadis at bay. >>



am i the only one who cracked up when i read this?

 

[Draco]

<< 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 >>




While I've heard this before. If you think about it, it's stuff like this that makes you realize how meaningless and small our existence is
So next time you have something due, or your boss wants something from you, just say "Who the hell cares, the Sun is going to burn out in 5 billion years and this whole planet will be vaporized!"

 

[FrustratedUser]

OMG!!!!
I need to make some HD backups quick before CD-R prices skyrocket.
Its time to put spares in stock!!!
:Q

 

[Moonbeam]

Any fears as to what we might do as Q will be allayed by our failure to reach stage 1. You could say the universe is very modist and ashamed to produce monster Q. It posesses a built in self effacing mechanism. Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who are corruptable. Those eface themselves from the universe.

 

[element]

<< Any fears as to what we might do as Q will be allayed by our failure to reach stage 1. You could say the universe is very modist and ashamed to produce monster Q. It posesses a built in self effacing mechanism. Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who are corruptable. Those eface themselves from the universe. >>



Yeah too bad the entire human race is corruptable. We may befall a fate much like the dinosaurs that ruled the earth many moonbeams ago. There is effacement in action. Learn history rather than Star Trek. One is fiction, the other fact. And if you want to be entertained, keep in mind fact is often stranger than fiction.

 

[notfred]

<<

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



...and I feel fine!~ >>



I can't beleive it took as many posts as it did to get to this.

 

[uclaxman]

thanks
i'll start getting ready

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

<< Any fears as to what we might do as Q will be allayed by our failure to reach stage 1. You could say the universe is very modist and ashamed to produce monster Q. It posesses a built in self effacing mechanism. Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who are corruptable. Those eface themselves from the universe. >>



Ok...<reaches for the net>

 

[cuteybunny]

i had a weird dream that the sun came down and burned me alive!!! aieee no!!!

 

[VirusDub]

<< 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. >>

The last time I read, the highest was Type III. Type 0 is where we are now, Type I is a civilization that harnesses the energy of their planet, Type II their solar system (star included) and Type III their galaxy. By Type IV do you mean to suggest that a civilization can control the universe? That would be so impossible. But anyway, the human race will probably reach Type III within a couple million years (assuming we make it that long).

 

[911paramedic]

Forget the sun problem, an asteroid missed us by a meager 375K miles the other day. Why didn't this make the news before it happened? Because it was damn close. Those are the things we should be worried about.

Thats my 2 cents.

 

[Lars]

Thanks for the warning cuteybunny.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

damn, now i am depressed!

 

[stockjock]

I've got room for about 100 people on my homemade rocket that I'm gonna build. I bought the kit from one of those ads in a comic book....use spare parts around your house to build a rocket that can hold 100 people...$69.99....while supplies last...so hurry...(now I know why they say hurry, they knew about the Sun too!)
So, the first 100 of you AT'ers that pay me $100,000 up front, can be outta here before this place blows!!!
Will take PMs in the order they come..!!!!

 

[stockjock]

OOPs I guess I should've put my post on the FS/T forum instead...LOL

 

[Rent]

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



ROFL