Our Solar System is going to end!

darkman2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/death/


In around about 4 billion years. What are we going to do? We can't have a big Sun filling the sky surely. Perhaps we should tow the planet to another galaxy far far away at some stage in the not too distant future just to be sure?


Im relying on the fact some of you may care when the life longevity drugs are invented and people can't die...muhahaha


But anyway we need to start planning now for this eventuality.

RoadKillTs

Phew! Still time for a fap.

allanb49

Doubt i'll be around for it,

Terry

9th Chevron?

funk-you

Dude, I know you like the hyper negativity stuff but 4 billion years? Relax, have some cake or something.

-Funk

amacachi

Sure we're all going to die in 2012 anyway.

bonerm

I've always found stellar photography fascinating. Here's an image of a White Dwarf.

The Floyd p

Forget the sun going blamo!
We should be more focused on this

AnonoBoy

My Galaxy ended right after lunch, with my second cup of tea.

Hmmm..... chocolate.

bonerm

The Floyd p wrote: »

Forget the sun going blamo!
We should be more focused on this

Can she accurately predict football results?

starbelgrade

That's gonna play havoc with property prices.

Ickle Magoo

The sun collapsing isn't the end of the galaxy, it's the death of a star. The flares and solar radiation given off by the expanding sun will destroy all life on earth long before the sun consumes us anyway....cheery thought. On the plus side estimates range from 4 - 7.5 billion years to formulate an escape plan. :pac:

biko

4 billion years is how old the planet is, so we're about halfway.
Hope we go out with a bang.

stopusingoil

You think we'll still be living on this planet in 4 billion years? Sure civilization as we know it is in the process of complete collapse, population levels are out of control and the planets life support systems are being pushed over the edge. I'm more worried about what will happen in the next 40 years, never mind 4 billion!

kylith

Not galaxy; solar system.

Of course, the galaxy is being eaten by a black hole, so that's on its way out soon (relatively speaking)

Lmao_Man

Have never liked galaxy bars tbh.

Anthony Walsh

I can't wait, no more listening to Superman that prick can fúck off to another planet with a red sun and if he doesn't leave before it I think he will be in for an áss kick from The Batman

The sun is just one of something like 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Our Galaxy will end when we get eaten by the Andromeda Galaxy in a few years.

WalterMitty

I have a pain in me black hole with the doommongers on here.

Greyfox

Eh we have almost 4 billion years to work that one out and in that time people will have at least a million million things worry about first. I think you should turn your computer off for the day and have yourself some tea and jaffa cakes

I reckon due to pollution etc their won't be any human beings left on earth anyway so we won't notice it

Sanjuro

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

On the plus side estimates range from 4 - 7.5 billion years to formulate an escape plan. :pac:

Knowing the human race, we'll still fuck it up.

monkeyfudge

darkman2 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/death/


In around about 4 billion years. What are we going to do? We can't have a big Sun filling the sky surely. Perhaps we should tow the planet to another galaxy far far away at some stage in the not too distant future just to be sure?


Im relying on the fact some of you may care when the life longevity drugs are invented and people can't die...muhahaha


But anyway we need to start planning now for this eventuality.

I don't think you know what a galaxy is.

ejmaztec

WalterMitty wrote: »

I have a pain in me black hole with the doommongers on here.

Do you work for BP?

GavRedKing

Ah it was good while it lasted I suppose.

monkeyfudge

Better to be concerned about more immediate problems.

If we get a solar storm similar to the one that happened in the 1850s then every electrical system on the planet would be fried. Not easy to replace and repair either when we've no power to do it.

We don't have much of a warning system for this either. At best we might know 15 minutes beforehand, but even that's not enough time to turn off the power plants to keep them safe.

Wazdakka

<Insert relevant pun pertaining to picture here>

AAAAAAAHHH

kylith wrote: »

Not galaxy; solar system.

Of course, the galaxy is being eaten by a black hole, so that's on its way out soon (relatively speaking)

That's not true, the gravity of a black hole is the same as (actually slightly less than) the gravity of the star that it was, when you're a sufficient distance from it.

dlofnep

Galaxy = Billions of stars in a collective space.

Solar System = Collection of planets & other shíte surrounding a star.

So no.

But our Galaxy is going to collide with Andromeda in 4.5 billion years.

So yes, kinda.

Sykk

We're also on a collision course with our nearest Spiral Galaxy, Andromeda. And at the same time there's always North Korea.

No matter what way you look at it we're fúcked!

monkeyfudge

dlofnep wrote: »

Solar System = Collection of planets & other shíte surrounding a star.
.

That's a star system. Solar system only really pertains to our own star system.

Kasabian

Won't bother me I will be in Heaven when it happens. Should be a busy day at the old pearly gates .

dlofnep

monkeyfudge wrote: »

That's a star system. Solar system only really pertains to our own star system.

A star system is a collection of stars bound by gravity.

Our solar system is a planetary system, which is what I was going to write - but this is AH.

monkeyfudge

Kasabian wrote: »

Won't bother me I will be in Heaven when it happens. Should be a busy day at the old pearly gates .

Well in the gospel according to Belinda Carlisle we're told that heaven is a place on Earth!

Kasabian

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Well in the gospel according to Belinda Carlisle we're told that heaven is a place on Earth!

She's a charlatan and she wasn't at the last supper so I won't be placing much faith in her inaudible ramblings.

kylith

AAAAAAAHHH wrote: »

That's not true, the gravity of a black hole is the same as (actually slightly less than) the gravity of the star that it was, when you're a sufficient distance from it.

I'll have to rewatch the How the Universe Works about it, but the Milky Way is orbiting a supermassive black hole. My money's on it nomming everything in a few billion years.

Sykk

The lack of astronomy knowledge is hilarious in this thread. It wouldn't be, so much so, if people didn't make idiotic statements that came directly from their black hole.

Killer Pigeon

darkman2 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/death/


In around about 4 billion years. What are we going to do? We can't have a big Sun filling the sky surely. Perhaps we should tow the planet to another galaxy far far away at some stage in the not too distant future just to be sure?


Im relying on the fact some of you may care when the life longevity drugs are invented and people can't die...muhahaha


But anyway we need to start planning now for this eventuality.

omg, fúckturd.

Our SOLAR SYSTEM will cease to exist but our GALAXY will not. Our galaxy, the Milky Way contains billions of other stars. In 4 billion years time, if humanity still exists, we would probably have the technology to travel to and inhabit another planet in another solar system in this galaxy. The sun will die in a massive explosion called a supernova and most of the inner planet of the solar system, including Earth, will be destroyed. The shock wave will blow away the atmospheres of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune) and only their rocky cores will remain.

dlofnep

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

omg, fúckturd.

Our SOLAR SYSTEM will cease to exist but our GALAXY will not. Our galaxy, the Milky Way contains billions of other stars. In 4 billion years time, if humanity still exists, we would probably have the technology to travel to and inhabit another planet in another solar system in this galaxy. The sun will die in a massive explosion called a supernova and most of the inner planet of the solar system, including Earth, will be destroyed. The shock wave will blow away the atmospheres of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune) and only their rocky cores will remain.

The earth will be fried within a billion years. We won't make it that far.

Killer Pigeon

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

The sun is just one of something like 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Our Galaxy will end when we get eaten by the Andromeda Galaxy in a few years.

When and if the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies collide, they will probably just merge into a larger galaxy, with little or no effects on our solar system.

Killer Pigeon

dlofnep wrote: »

The earth will be fried within a billion years. We won't make it that far.

I'd say in a million or two million years humans will master interstellar travel.

dlofnep

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'd say in a million or two million years humans will master interstellar travel.

Or kill each other in nuclear war.

But if we don't - I'd say we'll have mastered it within 1000 years or less. Maybe 500.

Peppapig

Let's reproduce and eat!

Killer Pigeon

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

When and if the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies collide, they will probably just merge into a larger galaxy, with little or no effects on our solar system.

It would pretty cool though.. I always find these types of things amazing. The sheer scale of the universe and where it came from is just impossible to comprehend.
So much energy but from where..

Killer Pigeon

Deleted User wrote: »

It would pretty cool though.. I always find these types of things amazing. The sheer scale of the universe and where it came from is just impossible to comprehend.
So much energy but from where..

Chuck Norris ... it's been proven

G_R

Deleted User wrote: »

It would pretty cool though.. I always find these types of things amazing. The sheer scale of the universe and where it came from is just impossible to comprehend.
So much energy but from where..

every time i start to think about this my brain hurts.

and also, is there an edge? like after all the galaxies, does the universe just stop?. ah, my head

Killer Pigeon

dannym08 wrote: »

every time i start to think about this my brain hurts.

and also, is there an edge? like after all the galaxies, does the universe just stop?. ah, my head

Space-Time is probably infinite in all directions but energy and matter are not infinite in our universe. Our universe would literally have an edge in that regard.

Killer Pigeon

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Space-Time is probably infinite in all directions but energy and matter are not infinite in our universe. Our universe would literally have an edge in that regard.

I think it's all just emptiness that is slowly being filled.. Altho the idea of the emptiness being infinite blows my mind a little bit.
The other thing I find weird is that some day, all stars will eventually die and everything basically ceases to exist or matter.

Killer Pigeon

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it's all just emptiness that is slowly being filled.. Altho the idea of the emptiness being infinite blows my mind a little bit.
The other thing I find weird is that some day, all stars will eventually die and everything basically ceases to exist or matter.

Technically energy can never be created nor destroyed so the energy will exist in some form or another. To find out more about the end of the universe, look into the 'Big Rip' theory.

It was created at some point.. Wonder if we'll ever know how..

dlofnep

dannym08 wrote: »

every time i start to think about this my brain hurts.

and also, is there an edge? like after all the galaxies, does the universe just stop?. ah, my head

There are theories that multiple universes exist. Whether it be in different dimensions, or just so far away they are undetectable. Just like galaxies are seperated by great distances, universes could also be seperated by even greater distances.

Myrddin

Once Cowan gets wind of this, expect a Red Giant Tax - "We have to think of future generations".