It's comin' right for us!
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2012-05-31 22:22 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Another poor hack job of reporting.
You don't say 'slam' several times and then, almost as an afterthought, mention the fact that, being mostly empty space, there will be hardly any collisions. It would be like saying two marching bands, in which the players left a mile space between themselves, 'slammed' into each other as they marched through the same field from different directions.
It's like saying, "I'm going to slam my fight through this field of fire flies!"
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Well, for the unwashed masses that's a good enough approximation.
If anyone seriously gets upset that we're toast in a few billion years they have some serious anxiety issues.
After all, should the earth remain unaffected by the merger a scant billion years later the sun will become a red giant and eat the earth anyways.
And all of that is assuming our current understanding of the rate of increase of the sun's luminosity is wrong. If we're right then in about a mere billion years all the surface water on earth will be boiled off bringing the glorious reign of terrestial life to an end.
When you get right down to it, Kansas was far to optimistic with 'Dust In the Wind' (Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky? Wrong on both counts.) 
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We're not toast... there's plenty of room to accommodate all of the stars in the Milkomeda galaxy. The only thing that will change is the night sky.
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Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
If anyone seriously gets upset that we're toast in a few billion years they have some serious anxiety issues.
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You know, this wouldn't be a problem if Andromeda would learn to use her blinker signals...
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She has.|
Originally Posted by Frost Warden
You know, this wouldn't be a problem if Andromeda would learn to use her blinker signals...
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But much like the 90 year old on the Interstate, her turn signal has been on for the last 70 miles.
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Fixed that for you.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
She has.
But much like the 90 year old on the Interstate, her turn signal has been on for the last 70,000,000,000,000 miles. |
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... and that the collision itself will take 2 billion years. |
Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
If anyone seriously gets upset that we're toast in a few billion years they have some serious anxiety issues.
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I mean, talk about "bullet time."
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
... and that the collision itself will take 2 billion years.
I mean, talk about "bullet time." |
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Damn, only four billion years! Time to get out that bucket list and start crossing some more things off.
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Item 1: survive collision of galaxy.|
Originally Posted by ebon3
Damn, only four billion years! Time to get out that bucket list and start crossing some more things off.
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Hmmm...this might take a while.
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Item 2: evaluate effect of galaxy merger on rate of new star formation.|
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Item 1: survive collision of galaxy.
Hmmm...this might take a while. |
Wait, how long until the hypothetical would Big Rip make the observable universe no larger than the local star cluster? That might impact observations.
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...and after said merger is completed, how many employees will be laid off/fired? Because we all know this happens....
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Something else to be on the watch for.
Today's the last chance for the next century to see Venus cross the sun.
It's already here!
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It was cloudy all day but it started to break up an hour or so before sunset and I was able to use a pair of sport binoculars to project an image of the transit onto the back of an envelope I had in the car around an hour to an hour and a half into the transit. Was even able to pick out a couple of sunspots.|
Originally Posted by Dark One
Something else to be on the watch for.
Today's the last chance for the next century to see Venus cross the sun. |
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I was using a welder's mask and could make out Venus transiting. It was pretty neat. Just a tiny little dot on the sun, but still.
Most impressive part of that video was the various images of the Sun using different wavelengths of light and that can be seen anytime with the proper instruments. Only thing cool about it is how rare it is.
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Link.
Given all the preservatives I consume on a daily basis, I might just see this.