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Hope dims that Earth will survive Sun's death (DOOMED? You betcha...)
Space Newscientist .com ^
| 2/22/08
| Jason Palmer
Posted on 02/26/2008 7:44:39 PM PST by Libloather
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
To: Libloather
Future news article:
Al Gore (10^10^)III, Implores Fellow Earth Citizens to Buy Solar Plasma Credits
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posted on
02/26/2008 8:52:05 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: writer33
Wheres Carl Sagan when you need him? He lied about nuclear "Winter", so what good would he be now, er, in the future, when a "Winter", nuclear war induced or not, will be needed?
To: Inyo-Mono; Libloather
"Why the sudden surge in news stories about the earths end billions of years from now? Is a new generation of young reporters just discovering this? I learned the same thing in elementary school in the 1950s." I bet you learned about the Carbon Cycle too, didn't you?
We've forgotten all that stuff. Carbon is going to kill us, don'tcha know?
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:03:02 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
To: Libloather
I’ll put it on my calendar - I intend to be out of town that day .....
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:03:52 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Lettuce see: If we can move an asteroid, and that asteroid - which, I assume, by affecting the earths mass over a long enough period of time moves the earths orbit - why not just use that same ????? (mythical) process to move the earth?" We'll park the asteroid/spaceship in a stationary point relative to Earth, supported by photon pressure.
The photon pressure will balance the gravitational attraction of the Earth and the Sun, but the gravitational pull of the asteroid on the Earth will not be balanced by anything.
Slowly, as slowly or quickly as needed, Earth can be moved to a higher orbit.
This is a modification of the "gravity tug" idea recently suggested to handle errant asteroids.
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:18:03 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
To: pcottraux
To: Gondring
God will not be mocked, control your tongue. You own nothing, you are given a certain amount of years. You have no deed upon any star.
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:20:43 PM PST
by
Hilltop
(Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
To: Perdogg
Dont worry Obama will save us.
We can hope.
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:23:08 PM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: Hilltop; Gondring
"You have no deed upon any star." You can have a star named after you, in the "International Star Registry".
Why would I want a star named "Bob"?
Then again, a deed upon a star wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on. Not for more than a nanosecond, anyway.
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:47:11 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Giant Rocket Engines?
Portable Heaters?
Mr. Jeeves, I love the technology, but how can we afford the Gore-McCain Carbon Credits?
Comment #52 Removed by Moderator
To: Libloather
..is it too late, for constructing a Dyson Sphere? ...we have the material. *smirk*
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posted on
02/26/2008 9:57:02 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you...our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: Libloather
The sun is not supposed to die for another 350 million years (our real-time years) or so. Can I possibly hold my interest for that long?
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posted on
02/26/2008 10:01:04 PM PST
by
onyx eyes
(me and us, together)
To: Libloather
Oh, and just so’s you might know, the earth we are sitting on, is spinning at a rate of some 900 miles per hour (our real-time), and it’d be wise to hope the center of our earth maintains its gravity in good form for awhile.
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posted on
02/26/2008 10:03:31 PM PST
by
onyx eyes
(me and us, together)
To: Yehuda
now, that comment was really bright...sheesh!
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posted on
02/26/2008 10:14:22 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
To: skinkinthegrass
"..is it too late, for constructing a Dyson Sphere? ...we have the material. *smirk* " It's not a good idea to put a Dyson Sphere around a red giant star.
Probably much more efficient to pick a nice, stable white dwarf. You could get by with a lot less material that way.
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posted on
02/26/2008 10:26:02 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
To: Libloather
Hmmmm ..?? Guess they haven’t seen the article which says there is more snow and ice on the northern hemisphere then has been there SINCE 1966!!
GLOBAL COOLING IS HERE - the HOAX OF GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST THAT .. A HOAX .. and it always was.
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posted on
02/26/2008 11:16:31 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(AMERICA: The greatest nation on the face of the earth.)
To: uptoolate
we will all be deadSpeak for yourself! This is only 7.5 billion years from now.
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posted on
02/26/2008 11:31:21 PM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?)
To: Libloather
Hope dims that Earth will survive Sun's death Uhhhhhhhhhh...been known for years that this would happen. Anybody whose hope has "dimmed" is pretty dim to begin with.
And who has "hopes" going out to billions of years? A better headline would be "Hope Dims that "Journalists" Finally Get a Clue".
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posted on
02/26/2008 11:33:25 PM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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