Posted on 05/17/2015 5:16:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
God has a different thought on it.....
But what happens to our sun (and solar system) when it goes super nova? (Guess the so called experts did not take this into account!)
Our sun is too small to go supernova.
Type II supernovae Let's look at the more exciting Type II first. For a star to explode as a Type II supernova, it must be at several times more massive than the sun (estimates run from eight to 15 solar masses).
A transition that was cancelled and restarted.
Hopefully it’ll be ready in 2021 as planned.
Our Sun isn’t large enough to go supernova. It will go through a red giant (helium-fusion) stage, run out of helium, and the active core will shrink again. The lighter stuff will blow away like a dandelion fluff, leaving a white dwarf, which will continue to cook along for billions more years.
It's no secret that uncurbed climate change and population growth are going to (and already have) put stress on the planet. But the situation is getting so bad that one prominent NASA scientist says we have to start thinking about terraforming Mars and that, in order for the human race to survive at current levels, we will eventually "need at least three planets. The entire ecosystem is crashing," Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist of NASA's Langley Research Center said Thursday. "Essentially, there's too many of us. We've been far too successful as the human animal. People allege we're short 40-50 percent of a planet now. As the Asians and their billions come up to our living systems, we're going to need three more planets."IOW, NASA is paying for idiotic Malthusianic nonsense, instead of space exploration. OTOH, Elon Musk is using the same "Earth is running out" alibi to build his Mars colonization project. Extra to X-Planets and APoD.
No need reading beyond the first sentence.
I vote we send this guy and his colleagues on a one way trip to Mars as the advance party. After all, life here is getting intolerable, right?
Or we save a lot of money (no rockets, no life support, etc) and just put him in a habitat that simulates the Martian environment. At the surface of Mars, atmospheric pressure is the same as it is 40 miles altitude on Earth.
If it’s a NASA official, it is a risible idiot.
Our back yard is part of the ecosystem, and it is flourishing
with huge trees and plenty of bright greenery.
The entire ecosystem? I don’t think so.
Otherwise, there will be no ethanol to destroy our car engines,
and everyone knows that there will be plenty. GMO corn crops
are everywhere. Just don’t eat the stuff.
Add some lab goggles for extra importance.
Back in Junior High we used to call guys like this “Space Cadets”
What’s so great about keeping the human race alive into perpetuity?
If there were no humans, so what. We wouldn’t know anyway since we all die eventually.
As for myself...
I listen to what these self-appointed ‘elites’ say. I read what is published by them and I examine their actions as best as I can both public and how they appear to live privately and I have come up with the following.
1. The ‘elites’ no matter what country or political system they exist within want to be the rulers of all those ‘under’ them.
2. They would be the happiest in a Feudal society with them selves as the Nobles and every one else as ‘lackey’ or peasantry.
3. They live within ‘bubbles’ or possibly fish tanks where they do not interact with the outside world. Because if they did they would see that humanity does not encroach upon ‘mother nature’ to the extent they think it does.
4. If they did have the ‘power’ that they crave then the lives of anyone else that is not an ‘elite’ or recognized within their cliques would be worth spit on a hot concrete sidewalk.
The galactic core explosion will reach the Ringworld soon enough.
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