Posted on 04/15/2025 5:50:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
I dont know. See #20
And nice two-fer!
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This happened a long, long time ago. The light is finally reaching our neighborhood, our tiny corner of the cosmos.
Well, it is now an “EX” planet!...............
Exactly my earlier observation. The galaxy is big, with lots of opportunity for variation in stochastic events. But how the hell did they stumble on this one far enough in advance to detect the decay in that orbit to document this event?
It blew me away.
It seems to me (upon actually reading the article, lol) that they didnt really see the event, but are trying to explain the resulting debris ring that remains. Of course all the images shown are artists conceptions and not actual ‘pictures’ so who knows what they are really ‘seeing’. Among other things in my current profession, I am educated in orbit mechanics and understand that well within our own solar system and planets and natural and man made satellites . Astrophysics can be a little more complex and its not my specialty. But its also a little less ‘practical’ since all we can do with it during our lifetimes is observe and postulate theories.
I'm so busted. Really busy this AM.
The Sun will become a red giant in about 5 billion years and consume the Earth. But the Earth will already be toast by then.
One of the reasons for humans to develop intergalactic travel before that day arrives is to find and be able to move to an Earth-sized planet suitably orbiting a star that has a similar size and age to our Sun today, and is in a nice neighborhood, away from black holes and soon-to-become supernovas.
Oh, and it’s likely the people moving to the new planet will need to have Galactic Van Lines ship along the oxygen from the Earth to unload in the new planet’s atmosphere. That is unless the planet already has photosynthetic lifeforms that have converted CO2 to O2. Depositing some of Earth’s photosynthetic organisms in the oceans of the new planet ahead of time might take a couple billion years or more to produce the needed oxygen.
Dealing with any current tenants of the planet is a separate issue.
According to the Scientology cult, that’s how we got HERE in the first place!.................
That view is like the one of storks deliverng babies, or that the Earth is held up on the back of a giant turtle, who is standing on the back of another giant turtle and that it’s just turtles all the way down.
Yes, Scientology is not ‘scientific’.................
“Bereft of life, it rests in peace...”
Pining for the fjords.....................
I’d read a story that when radio telescopes were focused on that general area, they were able to receive a sound equivalence of this event.
They said they heard something like:
“NOM-NOM-NOM-NOM....”
Exciting...
I recently watched an old sci-fi movie about the Earth being grazed by an asteroid and moved closer to the sun.
I wish they would do a remake of “When Worlds Collide”....................
-PJ
Neptune gets destroyed by a star passing thru the solar system.
The Star - Based on the short story by H. G. Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRVB_CHUrWk
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