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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #420 on: February 03, 2011, 07:00:25 PM »
The sun will burn out. But when it goes out, it'll be with a bang. It'll send a massive amount of energy towards Earth and COMPLETELY FRY us. This planet would be burnt black. Earth is fucked no matter how you look at it.

Something like this ^

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #421 on: February 03, 2011, 07:05:30 PM »
The Earth will be long gone by the time the sun goes Nova, as noted above.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #422 on: February 03, 2011, 07:07:24 PM »
I think people will too. Who know what species will be finding the artifacts of the humans.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #423 on: February 03, 2011, 07:32:10 PM »
Not unless we leave some on the outer planets or their moons.  And maybe not even then. As the hydrogen fuel is consumed it is converted into helium, which expands the sun.  As the burning of the Hydrogen fuel is able to keep the sun expanded, when it is exhausted the massive gravitational forces will collapse the sun into a Black Dwarf.  Stars expand as they grow old. As their core runs out of hydrogen and then helium, the core contacts and the outer layers expand, cool, and become less bright. This is a red giant or a red super giant (depending on the initial mass of the star). It will eventually collapse and explode. A star's life span and eventual fate are determined by the original mass of the star.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #424 on: February 03, 2011, 07:39:59 PM »
The whole theory though is that when the Sun explodes, it will send a wave of that explosion to Earth. That wave is so intense that Earth won't survive. Its the atomic bomb of nuclear explosions.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #425 on: February 03, 2011, 07:47:23 PM »
When the Sun goes out the Earth will have to rebuild. Thinking about that, its not such a bad idea.

Actually, the sun will expand into a red giant as it runs out of nuclear fuel, and will destroy the inner 4 planets in the process.  Won't be an Earth to re-build.

^ As this was on the last page, you might have missed it.  The Earth, along with Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be gone before such an explosion occurs.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #426 on: February 03, 2011, 07:51:34 PM »
I thought we were going further out of our orbit each year? As the Moon moves away from us we move further out of the orbit.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #427 on: February 03, 2011, 07:55:03 PM »
Has anyone asked Mike about this?! He's an Earth Science genius!

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #428 on: February 03, 2011, 07:56:39 PM »
He posted a page or two back.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #429 on: February 03, 2011, 08:03:05 PM »
Oh right. I figure once I'm dead, I don't care what the hell happens here.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #430 on: February 03, 2011, 08:03:27 PM »
Earth orbit varies from 91 to 94 million miles normally.  Any signifant devation will take a billion years or more.  While it is true that all orbital speeds will eventually slow, it would be my guess that this will be insignifant before the sun becomes a Red Giant.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #431 on: February 03, 2011, 08:06:32 PM »
One of our concerns is the Moon's movement. It continues to move away from us each year. Once we've lost the gravitational pull of the Moon, our orbit will go off and our axis will change.

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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #432 on: February 03, 2011, 08:08:00 PM »
I've read that in several million years or so (could be billions?) the moon and earth will grow so far apart, the moon will no longer have effect on the ocean tides.


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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #433 on: February 03, 2011, 08:09:45 PM »
True. But the Moon also keeps us on our axis and controls our seasons. Without the Moon there would be summer and winter in two days.
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Re: How awesome would this be....
« Reply #434 on: February 03, 2011, 08:13:36 PM »
Shit, a new season everyday?!

Wait, so you're basically saying the tilt that the earth has (because of the moon) wouldn't be tilted anymore??  :confused: