Will the sun devour the Earth?


Science | 206643 hits | Sep 16 8:58 pm | Posted by: wildrosegirl
8 Comment

While we swagger through middle age, the old man down the street is violently fighting against the dying of the light.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:51 pm
    Yes it will gobble us up in a few million years.

  2. by avatar raydan
    Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:24 pm
    I think it's more like 4-5 billions, but mercifully, all life on earth will have probably disappeared long before that.

  3. by ASLplease
    Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:37 pm
    why? is it hungry? whose job was it to feed the sun? perhaps they should be fired for not doing their job.

  4. by avatar DeBoom
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:31 am
    IIRC scientists aren't entirely sure. The earth's orbit is just at the edge of where the sun will expand to. So the earth could survive but all life would be killed. Good news is we have a billion years before the suns output rises enough to kill us. Plenty of time to colonize space.

  5. by avatar redhatmamma
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:32 am
    Yup - in the meantime I'm gonna keep on truckin....

    bottoms up !

  6. by avatar PluggyRug
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:32 am
    It would have to do it during daytime. At night it's disappeared somewhere.

  7. by avatar fifeboy
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:39 am
    Yes, but it will find it does not taste very good.

  8. by Lemmy
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:49 am
    In about 4B years, the moon will have moved far enough away from earth that the gravitational pull won't maintain the Earth's rotation. This will cause the planet to wobble and destroy all life on-board. The sun will gobble up the planet in 5-8B years, but no one will be around to see the show.

  9. by FieryVulpine
    Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:39 pm
    "Lemmy" said
    In about 4B years, the moon will have moved far enough away from earth that the gravitational pull won't maintain the Earth's rotation. This will cause the planet to wobble and destroy all life on-board. The sun will gobble up the planet in 5-8B years, but no one will be around to see the show.


    Except for a strange man riding a fifties-era Police Box with his busty-- er, I mean trusty companion.



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