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To: Carl Vehse

The Sun will eventually become a Red Giant when it’s supply of hydrogen runs low and the force of gravity is insufficient to keep the surface at its present diameter.

It will swell up to the orbit of Mars, consuming everything within that space: mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon and every other rock and dust particle.

Mars will become the new Mercury, a rocky planet hellhole of unimaginable heat, IF it doesn’t get consumed in the maelstrom itself......................


15 posted on 04/15/2025 7:17:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


30 posted on 04/15/2025 9:28:19 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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