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To: fwdude

The Earth is roughly an average 9.3 billion miles from the sun so in a billion years it will have moved out 0.0001% of the distance. In the same billion years the light and heat produced by the sun will have increased around 10%. If the sun keeps growing 10% every billion years while the Earth only moves away .0001%, the inevitably result is a scorched Earth. What is left over after that will probably not be recognizable as “Earth”.


81 posted on 01/04/2019 1:50:40 PM PST by Data Miner
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To: Data Miner
"The Earth is roughly an average 9.3 billion miles from the sun"

Your decimal point is drifting dangerously in the wrong direction!

98 posted on 01/04/2019 4:03:33 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Data Miner

93 MILLION MILES, not 9.3 billion.

From your homepage:

Bits of data mined from my first month on Free Republic:
Many are given to careless reading, careless thinking and careless responses.
The same people seem to think ignorance is no excuse for not commenting, being called out on their slovenly thinking and ignorance doesn’t cause them rethink, but running to a moderator.

Would not an error in the realm of an order of magnitude be “careless”?

Yeesh!


115 posted on 01/04/2019 10:31:04 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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