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One day the sun will die

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MagentaRocks · 14/04/2020 12:57

For some reason I wondered what would happen if the sun dies. I looked it up and it turns out that the sun is half way through its life and it will die, by getting hotter and burning itself out in effect. It will also swallow the earth. It is likely to be a billion years before life on earth is wiped out - as the sun gets hotter the water around us will boil etc but it feels really weird to think that one day there will be nothing and no life anywhere.

I think I have freaked myself out during lockdown!

OP posts:
flippefloppe · 14/04/2020 17:44

@heidbuttsupper stop!!!! I just spat out my brew!!!

TheNoodlesIncident · 14/04/2020 19:04

But @MagentaRocks, you are fitting in just fine - there have been loads of threads that go just like this, with some posters being a bit churlish, and some joining in with the spirit that was intended, and some diverting off some weird tangent... seen it so many times before!

And obviously it's a relief to have threads that aren't about you-know-what, bring em on I say Grin

AvalancheKit · 14/04/2020 19:09

I thought The Sun had been going 'tits up' for years to be honest.

Iamthewombat · 14/04/2020 19:14

FFS it wasn't a mournful tone.

We’ll be the judges of that. Thanks for the laugh!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/04/2020 19:14

Can’t get worked up about something that’s going to happen about a billion years after I’m dead, I’m afraid.

Guacamole · 14/04/2020 19:22

I wonder what we would have evolved into by then? Gosh that’s a mind blowing thought what will evolution cause us to look like in 5 billion years. If we still exist.

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MagentaRocks · 14/04/2020 19:27

@Iamthewombat really not nice. I think I know what tone I was writing in.

I think I will try and leave this thread now. Can’t deal with feeling like a 14 year old being mocked again.

OP posts:
AvalancheKit · 14/04/2020 19:50

You've Been Flamed !!

Iamthewombat · 14/04/2020 19:51

This is coming from a place of kindness: lighten up! You wanted a discussion about the sun dying which some posters, including me, found humour in. I’m not laughing at you. Be glad that you have spread some cheer.

Brahumbug · 14/04/2020 19:56

Eventually even the black holes will evaporate leaving just an ever expanding mass of fine particles.

AvalancheKit · 14/04/2020 19:57

The point is - and it is a very good point that OP has raised - is that one day there will be nothing. Zero. Zilch.

No matter what you believe in. No matter how much one disrespects another based on religion, wealth, body shape, intelligence, ad infinitum - we are all equal in this one thing. We all go back to dust eventually and there will be no memory of us just as there was none before.

flippefloppe · 14/04/2020 20:17

@MagentaRocks

Brace yourself... here it comes...

text has no tone!!!

Grin

Another vote for lighten up, chuck.

Flymetothetoon · 14/04/2020 20:18

@Magentarocks thank you for starting such an interesting thread.

I have been properly being anxious about you know what but I have enjoyed reading your thread and it has most definitely put things into perspective ☀️

raydeeo · 14/04/2020 20:22

Your post reminded me of this site.. www.futuretimeline.net
Interesting, though I can't remember how and where I came to this site, it just came back to me now reading through the thread. I am sure some predictions are probably way off but there are known events that will occur that are put into context too.

SoleBizzz · 14/04/2020 20:52

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TheVanguardSix · 14/04/2020 20:53

Bruuuuhhh! Don't go there.

flippefloppe · 14/04/2020 21:07

@SoleBizzz play nicely... Smile

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 14/04/2020 21:23

The Andromeda galaxy will hit the Milky way long before that. I wouldn't worry.

Springersrock · 14/04/2020 21:30

I think we've got to that stage of lockdown confused

The existential crisis stage, I mean

Gawd, I’ve been watching Dr Pimple Popper Grin

scaryteacher · 15/04/2020 09:09

So, if we know the outer limits of the universe, and it isn't infinite, what is beyond that?

Brahumbug · 15/04/2020 09:37

If the universe is infinite, then there are infinite identical copies of you out there on identical planet Earths. The nearest copy is 10 to the 10 to the 122 meters away. (Sorry don't know how to do exponential on my phone!)

AvalancheKit · 15/04/2020 10:02

The nearest copy is 10 to the 10 to the 122 meters away. (Sorry don't know how to do exponential on my phone!)

Well at least my identical me is social distancing....!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 15/04/2020 10:59

I wonder how other Earths are getting on. Do you think they are more advanced and watching us, "Thank fuck we aint those guys."

Brahumbug · 15/04/2020 11:24

Some will be smarter than us, you can spot them because they didn't vote Boris into power.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 15/04/2020 11:29

@scaryteacher who knows? Wormholes to the multiverse? Or we're part of some sort of holographic projection anyway Grin
If you want your mind boggled, look up the Holographic Principle (start with anti-deSitter space for some light background reading)