Kissing the Earth Goodbye in About 7.59 Billion Years
POSTED BY: deadlockvictim
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 01:05
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that is unless we blow ourselves up first.... (a pretty safe bet)
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By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: March 11, 2008
In the end, there won’t even be fragments.
If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is the forecast according to new calculations by a pair of astronomers, Klaus-Peter Schroeder of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and Robert Connon Smith of the University of Sussex in England.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/space/11earth.html?_r=1&ex=1
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That long ? I have seen somewhere that we only have around 3 billion yrs left. For the last 20 yrs, I've heard that our sun was at about it's mid life, being around 5 billion yrs old already, and is expected to last for some 12-10 billion yrs total. For the most part, i figured we had around 5 billion yrs left, then some latest calculation said we have only 3 billion yrs left. Now it's up to 7.6? Wow!
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Oh great. 
I had plans 7.59 billion years from now. Now what? I'm going to have a call and cancel my reservations because I am not going out if the world is going to end. It's just too much hassle with the traffic and all. I know the Mrs is going to want to catch all the crazy "end of the world" sales at Dillard's where "everything must go," but I just don't want to deal with it.
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Probably not going to be a whole lot left of the earth by then anyway - those crazy future kids will be living amongst the stars..
o'course a bunch will come back for that 'End of the World' sale down at Dillards..
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WOW!!! Yet another thing that I don't give a damn about! Amazing, that.
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