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The End is Nigh!

Posted April 08, 2008 8:25 AM

One billion years. That's all the human race has left on our planet, say scientists. And, contrary to previous studies, they say Earth will eventually plunge into the sun. One optimist, however, thinks it's all avoidable.

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04/08/2008 12:17 PM

Well, if any humans are still around, I am sure that the dolphins will take a few of us with them as pets to their new home...

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04/09/2008 12:40 AM

Wait a million or so years and the anti-grav projectors used more during the day compared to night will move the Earth over the 900 million years left.

Hey it's just as valid as the "scientists". Presuming a baseline of a billion years based on years of data, it is a bit of an assumption. A thousand even maybe 100 years of refinement is warranted before we decide to alter our orbit and then only after we can project the chaos a large asteroid(s) in an eccentric orbit on all the other asteroids and planets accurately.

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04/09/2008 7:42 AM

interesting. I agree that it seems a bit premature to start looking at flinging asteroids around the planet... though I'm sure there are congressmen and senators ready to fling massive amounts of money to a project like this... and ready to point their fingers at each other when it all goes wrong. Besides, if we haven't figured out how to get off the planet in the next billions years... we deserve to fall into the sun.
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04/09/2008 11:28 AM

Only a billion years (MoL)?!? Gadzooks! I guess I'll forego buying any more green bananas...

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04/09/2008 12:11 PM

I keep wondering who funds the people that sit around all day dreaming his stuff up instead of doing their work (or at least some useful work).
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04/09/2008 11:33 AM

Hi,

good idea to solve non-existing problems.

the oldest multicellular organism are thought to have lived 600million years ago.

The earliest land living vertebrates around 300million years.

So how should survive our species only 1 million years? Never!

If unexpectedly we survive for much longer: bite a big chunk off the sun and transform this into a lot of jupiter - like planets and in parallel !necessary for survival! bring the earths orbit nearer to the thus cooler sun.

Lifetime of stars is very much dependent on mass.

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04/09/2008 12:24 PM

Whew! Glad we got that settled and fixed. I can go back to the sprinkler water pressure thread now!

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04/12/2008 4:08 PM

A billion years? What optimists! We're not likely to last another 20 years unless we can get rid of all the terrorists, communists, and democrats.

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04/14/2008 1:35 PM

I may have to forego the RIPE bananas, is that the message?!?

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04/14/2008 7:02 PM

It's OK, have a banana on me.

Dont wait too long, though.

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04/15/2008 7:14 AM

If those aren't the rare Brazilian black bananas, they're well past making into pudding...but still would add a nice bit of potassium to my compost heap! (I do still have time to compost, don't I?)

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04/23/2008 1:18 AM

you forgot republicans

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04/23/2008 8:44 PM

Oh yeah. and all the rest of the political parties.

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05/16/2008 9:43 PM

It's not really my problem.

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