Sun burns out in 200 years!?

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: Quintox
I heard if the sun does burn out, it takes something like 30 years before earth feels its effects or something like that

Try 8 minutes, though I think the long lead up to the event would be fairly significant too.

The earth will be engulfed by the sun before it goes to dwarf status.

We wont be around for those 8 minutes

Hence the "long lead up would be fairly significant" disclaimer.

 

[mjrpes3]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Kind of scary to think that the sun, what we take for granite, could someday be gone. Wouldn't that mean the end of Earth?

hehe, one of the better misspellings I've seen. Reminds me of the Ebonics joke:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/...WebJokes/Joke0030.html

 

[SlitheryDee]

How can you predict fashion 2 centuries from now? Besides sunburn will always be IN.

 

[Aimster]

Jesus would never allow it.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Damn..knew I would get shit for that. Was hoping the FF grammar or spelling check would catch it. Curse you FF!

 

[Eli]

If the sun were a mere 200 years from burning out, we would know it, that is for sure. :Q

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Kind of scary to think that the sun, what we take for granite, could someday be gone. Wouldn't that mean the end of Earth?

Maybe. I remember reading somewhere that it'll just get roasted like hell, and then be left as a crisped, freezing cinder (a really really BIG cinder). Though I do wonder if it wouldn't wind up melting or vaporizing when the sun goes all crazy red giant.


Yeah, Fritzo has it, we've got about 5 billion years to go from the sun. By that time, well, who knows what life will be on the planet. Something will probably have colonized the Moon, Mars, and maybe Mercury and Venus. The Voyager, Pioneer, and New Horizons probes will long since have been recovered, and returned to Earth, to be put in museums. Then those museums will decay over time and.....well, that's just in the next 10,000 years.

By 5 billion years, some kind of life form is going to have left this solar system.

or it will have sculpted into a newer and better system

 

[Minjin]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Kind of scary to think that the sun, what we take for granite, could someday be gone. Wouldn't that mean the end of Earth?

For all intensive purposes, yes...

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Kind of scary to think that the sun, what we take for granite, could someday be gone. Wouldn't that mean the end of Earth?

I am just sitting here trying to think how people are going to blame the Sun's demise on human activity. I'm sure they will come up with something.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: quasi

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Kind of scary to think that the sun, what we take for granite, could someday be gone. Wouldn't that mean the end of Earth?

Please tell me that was a joke...

Edit: Damn, not the first to notice

i knew that if i was 5 minutes late to that post, I'd miss the scoop...yeah

 

[Argo]

We'll see HUGE transformation in sun billions of years before it runs out of fuel. Thinks like changing color and expanding diameter. None of these have happened yet so we're goog for a little longer.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Damn..knew I would get shit for that. Was hoping the FF grammar or spelling check would catch it. Curse you FF!

well, you did spell it right, and nothing wrong with the grammar...more or less.

so FF does seem to be working

 

[TipsyMcStagger]

If its going to go out in 200 years, we need to step up our global warming and really warm this place up. Gore may have doomed us all!

 

[sash1]

damn, i hope i die in the next 199 years

 

[SlickSnake]

To be brief, we know a lot less about the sun than most scientists will admit to. They are rushing around as we speak trying to get more satellites in orbit to study the sun. The sun is also most likely not powered like we think it is. The idea that nuclear fusion or fission is powering the sun does not properly explain why the sun hasn't already run out of fuel a long time ago.

A few heretical scientists have also suggested that some of our suns anomalies could be caused due to the fact our sun has already gone supernova once, and we are now in some sort of weird after phase of this initial supernova scenario. Some other fringe scientists believe the sun has actually captured a neutron star or some such similar stellar body at some point, which was consumed by the sun and would also help account for a lot of the anomalies that the scientists keep discovering about our sun.

Introduction To The Electric Cosmos

The Electric Cosmos

Thunderbolts.Info

Basically, if we do not understand fundamentally what is actually going on with our sun, all the speculation about its age and how long it will last is just useless. Some of the recent supernovas that have been studied do not fit the mold of a class of sun that this should have happened to. In other words, scientists were at a loss to explain them using current theories to model solar behavior.

I personally feel our sun is a lot closer to its maximum lifespan than most scientists will lead you to believe. And if we were really at or near the end of our suns projected lifespan, do you think the political leaders around the world would let out this information? Nasa won't even come clean and admit Mars is not really red. We have to rely on undoctored images from the ESA to confirm this fact. Obviously there is a lot more going on out there than we will ever be privileged enough to understand, before it's too late for the human race.

When Astronomers Fall Into A Black Hole

 

[ForumMaster]

umm, the sun has used up about half of it's fuel. the sun still has about 4-5 billion years. it could burn out. but then, the earth could also explode at 4:23 pm today. (don't hold your breath)

 

[Goosemaster]

Since when were Sun Burns in[/b]? I always thought they were uncoo...


okay that was to lame too finish,,,

 

[pyonir]

I think I'll start to panic about it next week. yeah...that seems good.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Since when were Sun Burns in[/b]? I always thought they were uncoo...


okay that was to lame too finish,,,

I'll say.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
umm, the sun has used up about half of it's fuel. the sun still has about 4-5 billion years. it could burn out. but then, the earth could also explode at 4:23 pm today. (don't hold your breath)

BTW, all that it would take to most likely kill off most or all the life on earth would be a massive solar flare type event aimed directly at the earth that would cook us and the atmosphere. Fortunately, 99.99% of all these massive solar flare events have not hit the earth, since we are a relatively small target far out in space. But during a period of high sunspot activity, the possibility of one such flare hitting us dead on goes up significantly. The sun does not have to literally explode to wipe us out, just a big burp at us a little bit is all it would take.

 

[Dean]

I read that in 200 Years, Our brains will have about 30% more mass. Personal computers will be as big as a house and many times more powerful than what we see today.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Fortunately we can just send a space ship to fire a gigantic nuclear bomb into the sun. When it explodes, the sun will restart, giving us billions of years before we have to worry again.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: mooglemania85
If you heard it on the radio, it must be true.

Also, the Martians are attacking.

Pfft that's not until 2012. Mulder said so.

 

[PBMangan]

I guess no one else has heard of this suppsed study. But what a great idea for a book/movie. The earth will end in 200 years, what would people do to survive? It's like Donny Darko but everyone knows they are doomed.

 

[ManBearPig]

doesnt it have like 5 billion more years?