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2 posted on
09/12/2007 7:06:23 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08)
To: KevinDavis
Astronomers have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of Earth.
It doesn't matter. We're all dying from human induced global warming anyway. ;O)
3 posted on
09/12/2007 7:15:26 PM PDT by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: KevinDavis
And even a definitive answer would do what for us?
4 posted on
09/12/2007 7:19:44 PM PDT by
SampleMan
(Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
To: KevinDavis
Astronomers have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of Earth. Oh, for cryin' out loud, the sun is projected to go red giant in what, 4 billion years? How friggin' dead am I gonna be by then? What an utterly STOOPID premise for an article.
5 posted on
09/12/2007 7:22:09 PM PDT by
dirtboy
(Chertoff needs to move out of DC, not move to Justice.)
To: KevinDavis
That is indeed great news. Our planet might survive a fireball that would turn it into a cinder, but survive. I’m not sure I want to wait around for it.
6 posted on
09/12/2007 7:23:12 PM PDT by
Lokibob
(Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
To: KevinDavis
Don’t you just love scientists! My driving of an SUV will destroy the planet, but our star swelling 100 times bigger will not.
And they wonder why they’ve been laughed at and had spitballs thrown at them throughout their lives... ;-)
8 posted on
09/12/2007 8:57:12 PM PDT by
mwilli20
To: KevinDavis
Nonsense. The Sun will gradually warm up as it uses up the hydrogen at its core, and the Earth's oceans will boil away and evaporate, long, long, long before the Sun ever becomes a nova.
Because of this, life on Earth probably only has another billion years or so, tops.
It's true that a molten rock may remain where the Earth once was immediately after the Sun goes through its red giant phase, but that rock will be totally unsuitable for any conceivable kind of life.
Or so I've heard.
To: KevinDavis
To: KevinDavis
Even if humans were to make it to that point in time, eventually there will be an end. The Big Rip, where the universe will rip apart everything even tiny atoms.
11 posted on
09/13/2007 3:47:50 AM PDT by
dragonblustar
(Move On should move on. Move on back to Russia.)
To: KevinDavis
Scientists have determined that the sun will burn out in roughly 150 million years. This means that the Kansas DOT will have to finish construction on I-35 in the dark...
Mark
15 posted on
09/13/2007 10:21:35 AM PDT by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: KevinDavis
"It got a little hot on the planet where I've been,
but I escaped with only a third degree burns.".
17 posted on
09/13/2007 1:47:41 PM PDT by
OESY
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18 posted on
09/14/2007 7:51:51 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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19 posted on
09/14/2007 7:52:35 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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