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Message 1318601 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 3:03:01 UTC - in response to Message 1318593.  

So our sun won't go "kaboom". Phew :)

But what it will do is not pleasant either. It will expand to about the orbit of Mars.


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Message 1318617 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 3:57:33 UTC - in response to Message 1318601.  

So our sun won't go "kaboom". Phew :)

But what it will do is not pleasant either. It will expand to about the orbit of Mars.

In about 3.5-5 billion years, We'll all be dust by then.
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Message 1318626 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 4:09:35 UTC - in response to Message 1318617.  

So our sun won't go "kaboom". Phew :)

But what it will do is not pleasant either. It will expand to about the orbit of Mars.

In about 3.5-5 billion years, We'll all be dust by then.

That was the first statement...


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Message 1318640 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 5:03:44 UTC

So, still nothing? hmmm

at least I'll get to enjoy my vacation after all.
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Message 1318643 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 5:09:35 UTC - in response to Message 1318640.  

So, still nothing? hmmm

at least I'll get to enjoy my vacation after all.

Yeah, less than 3 hours before the 21st is history in CA, nothing happened here, outside of another danged bad DVD... One of these days I'll find a #12 Gundam Seed Destiny that's in perfect shape, I'm on My 4th DVD, 3 bad and 1 semi bad, And the semi bad is the best so far too...
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Message 1318772 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 12:48:14 UTC - in response to Message 1318569.  
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You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.

Yep, this type star can't make iron, thankfully, since to fuse iron is impossible, when a large star tries(like a blue giant), it goes kaboom!!

It isn't impossible, but it doesn't generate any energy either.


And take another 20 billion years to cool down enough to use it if then. I'm not sticking around. LOL I'm like EX, I'm taking a vacation and by that time thay might have a great hotel on IO. LOL
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Message 1318776 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 12:53:04 UTC - in response to Message 1318541.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...
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Message 1318796 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 13:08:46 UTC - in response to Message 1318776.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie
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Message 1318842 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 16:11:15 UTC - in response to Message 1318796.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
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Message 1318848 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 16:20:28 UTC - in response to Message 1318842.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)

By then someone will have invented a working Jump Drive for spaceships...
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Message 1319004 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 23:00:24 UTC - in response to Message 1318842.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...
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Message 1319005 - Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 23:02:57 UTC - in response to Message 1319004.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...

Scientists already have a small crop of possible worlds too, now if someone would invent a space jump drive, we could send a real probe out there and see what is what...
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Message 1319129 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 1:42:46 UTC - in response to Message 1319005.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...

Scientists already have a small crop of possible worlds too, now if someone would invent a space jump drive, we could send a real probe out there and see what is what...

Generation ships would work.


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Message 1319131 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 1:45:21 UTC - in response to Message 1319129.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...

Scientists already have a small crop of possible worlds too, now if someone would invent a space jump drive, we could send a real probe out there and see what is what...

Generation ships would work.

Check this out Here, generation ships may not be needed. Just turn the key, push the button and Jump! A to B...
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Message 1319132 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 1:57:22 UTC - in response to Message 1319131.  

You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...

Scientists already have a small crop of possible worlds too, now if someone would invent a space jump drive, we could send a real probe out there and see what is what...

Generation ships would work.

Check this out Here, generation ships may not be needed. Just turn the key, push the button and Jump! A to B...

It is fiction, and I will believe it when I actually see it.


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Message 1319135 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 2:08:56 UTC - in response to Message 1319132.  
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You could go by my prediction. I have never been wrong.

The world will end!

I just don't set a date.

I will. In about 5 billion years when the sun starts trying to burn iron and turns into a red giant. I don't know if humans will be around to witness it though.



Very slim chance on that one.


We will have destroyed the earth ourselves by then...


I agree Jukie

Probably true, but with any luck and foresight, most of our descendants will be starting news worlds on distant planets before then.
(ok mabey I play Civilization one too many times)



Wouldn't that be something...

Scientists already have a small crop of possible worlds too, now if someone would invent a space jump drive, we could send a real probe out there and see what is what...

Generation ships would work.

Check this out Here, generation ships may not be needed. Just turn the key, push the button and Jump! A to B...

It is fiction, and I will believe it when I actually see it.

With under pinning in science, like so...

Underpinning Theories
FTL: "Folding Space"

The FTL drive technology used within the Re-imagined Series might be based on the use of Superstring Theory and M-Theory that essentially enable the "jump drive" systems to "fold" space, reducing the distance between any two points by creating a "corridor" through space that links them together (essentially forming a wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen Bridge). Such "corridors" are allowed by the general theory of relativity; what M-Theory does is provide a way to change the topology of space-time dynamically.

The use of such wormholes is based on the tenet that space is curved. Hence the term "wormhole", which arises from the analogy that space can be seen as an apple. A worm can travel from one side of the apple to the other in two ways:

By crawling over the surface, or
By burrowing through the apple (creating a "wormhole").

Obviously, the second option is considerably shorter than the first.

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Message 1319138 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 2:16:46 UTC

Have you seen Event Horizon? Bad things happen when you mess with physics :)

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Message 1319140 - Posted: 23 Dec 2012, 2:29:30 UTC - in response to Message 1319138.  

Have you seen Event Horizon? Bad things happen when you mess with physics :)

Um, no, I'm talking about physics(nature), that movie is speculation, that's why it's a horror movie.
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