Nemesis
And they thought global warming was bad.
Can I have your stuff? ;-)
Interesting-thanks.
Cher and who else?
In 1.3 Million Years . . . only God knows what He is going to do with the solar system. The main thing is that in those 1.3 million years one finds him or herself spending an eternity in heaven. The alternative can be avoided by one’s believing in the Lord Jesus Christ thus escaping the millions of years in the fiery pits of hell. . . damned forever.
I guess I should update my will.
Advice. If you’ re writing a scientific article, you don’t use the word “spitball” as a verb or as a noun. The word is undefined in a scientific context.
The requisite scare words are there: “increasing the likelihood of deadly impacts”. Now we have something else to worry about.
We’re all gonna die!
Two stars? So Star Wars is really about the future?
“Predicted minimum distance is expected some 1.281 million years from now, possibly approaching as close as 0.0676 parsecs, 0.221 light years”—quote from wikipedia piece below
For the record, one light-year, the *distance* light travels in a year, at its ~steady rate of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 Trillion miles. And so .221 light years is approximately 1.3 trillion miles. That’s 1,300 x 1 billion (miles).
“Gliese 710 or HIP 89825 is a orange star in the constellation Serpens Cauda whose main popular interest is its future significant close encounter with the Sun.
Predicted minimum distance is expected some 1.281 million years from now, possibly approaching as close as 0.0676 parsecs, 0.221 light years or about 13,300 AU[10]: being about 20 times closer than the current distance of Proxima Centauri.
It will then reach a similar brightness to the brightest planets, perhaps reaching an apparent visual magnitude of about -2.7 (brighter than Mars at opposition).
Maximum total proper motion will peak around one arc minute per year,[11][12] whose apparent motion will be readily noticeable over a human lifespan.
Gliese 710 currently is 63.8 light-years (19.6 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Serpens and has a below naked-eye visual magnitude of 9.69.
Stellar classification of K7 Vk,[4] which means it is a small main sequence star mostly generating energy through the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. (The suffix ‘k’ indicates that the spectrum shows absorption lines from interstellar matter.)
Stellar mass is about 60%[7] of the Sun’s mass with an estimated 67% of the Sun’s radius.[8]
It is suspected to be a variable star that may vary in magnitude from 9.65–9.69. As of 2017, no planets have been detected orbiting this star.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_710
Oh come on, that won’t happen in a million years!
So, therefore... all this “man-made” global warming crap doesn’t matter one lick.
Two suns will surely burn us all up anyway.
And they thought global warming was bad now!
That will keep me awake at night in worry and consternation.
I can’t wait.
Only those of us who believe in reincarnation will have to worry about a 2-sun solar system.
A few thousand reincarnations is all it would require. Then we’ll be wishing we had done something about getting off this solar system when we had the chance.
This is why we need to build a Stargate. Good fences make good neighbors.
Can I add the obligatory “We’re all doomed.”
