[PenultimateManStanding]

Wasn't it 5 billion years before the sun is supposed to go nova? Well, I've got news, that's not going to matter because in 3.5 billion years our galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide. That cataclysm will wipe out whatever life there is on Earth at that time. If Andromeda hits the other side of the Milky Way, the Earth will be ejected out of its orbit into the frozen depths of space. If it hits our side the atmosphere and oceans will boil off. So eat, drink and be merry.

[eastbay]

Yes, Andromeda could pose a problem. Hopefully we have mastered a technology that will stop this collision from occurring. Hey, if technology can prevent oil depletion from harming us, stopping Andromeda should be easy, huh?.

Regardless, according to current theory, the sun is too large to become a nova (that's probably only for white dwarfs) and isn't large enough to become a supernova. It's most likely red giant for our star, unless something bonks into the sun and our plans get changed.

Sorry to be the one to break the nova news to you buddy.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', ' ')
Sorry to be the one to break the nova news to you buddy.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')asn't it 5 billion years before the sun is supposed to go nova? Well, I've got news, that's not going to matter because in 3.5 billion years our galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide. That cataclysm will wipe out whatever life there is on Earth at that time. If Andromeda hits the other side of the Milky Way, the Earth will be ejected out of its orbit into the frozen depths of space. If it hits our side the atmosphere and oceans will boil off. So eat, drink and be merry.

[Kingcoal]

Worrying about things 3.5 billion years from now? At the rate we're going, no one will be around to have to worry about it.

[Specop_007]

In some ways its kinda depressing knowing I wont be around to see the collision. Thats some epic level shit right there that makes oil depletion seem so utterly "so what".

[smallpoxgirl]

3.5 billion years? Who cares? I'll be dead in 50 years. Our species will be doing good to make it through the next thousand without going extinct. Who cares if planets bonk into eachother once we're all gone?

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')n some ways its kinda depressing knowing I wont be around to see the collision. Thats some epic level shit right there that makes oil depletion seem so utterly "so what".

[Opies]

We are already experiencing a galactical crash, let alone in 3.5bn years. Apparently all them science folk have come to the conclusion we are actually from a dwarf galaxy called Sagittarius which is currently being 'eaten' by the much larger milky way. And apparently we have been 'eaten' already and are now part of a new galaxy, that being the milky way. I don't have a source for this, so take it with a grain of salt anyway.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittariu ... cal_Galaxy

What is not under our control is not to be fretted about.

[Angry_Chimp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXgQaCobLc

[jboogy]

Perhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you? And you can't "try" it for a couple hunnert' years, you make the choice and have to live with it.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'P')erhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you? And you can't "try" it for a couple hunnert' years, you make the choice and have to live with it.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'P')erhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you? And you can't "try" it for a couple hunnert' years, you make the choice and have to live with it.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'P')erhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you? And you can't "try" it for a couple hunnert' years, you make the choice and have to live with it.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '3').5 billion years? Who cares? I'll be dead in 50 years. Our species will be doing good to make it through the next thousand without going extinct. Who cares if planets bonk into eachother once we're all gone?

[jboogy]

zensui wrote
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f what is immortal is the soul, then after one death it will teleport to other place. And you have not even considered immaterial existence, which has only mind or consciousness. Living for eons can be quite a blessing... if you're in Nirvana. I've felt a glimpse of it, and I'm quite certain that this is the Path. While not meditating on jhannas, or being one with the respiration of the universe, then it will be nice to help those still in Samsara...

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'P')erhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you? And you can't "try" it for a couple hunnert' years, you make the choice and have to live with it.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'P')erhaps the larger question is; if you had the ability or choice to be immortal, would you?

[hubbertspeak7777777]

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[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zensui', '
')smile and laugh away of suffering, it's possible