• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    So strangely true… My son got scared a few years ago while watching a documentary about black holes and the death of the Universe.

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    11 months ago

    Don’t worry about the sun expanding to swallow earth! It will gradually get hotter as the core uses fuel and contracts, rendering earth uninhabitable within just 1b years (if we don’t beat it to the punch)

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      11 months ago

      The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the Sun will expand large enough to make the planet uninhabitable in about 500 million years.

      In other words, the Earth is already 90% of the way through its life cycle.

      Don’t worry though. We’ll almost certainly make it uninhabitable for humans long, long before that time

  • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I have to wait six billion years for this place to get what it’s got coming?! We need to put this shit on fast forward

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      11 months ago

      It’s red or orange giant phase might get to earth. It won’t get any farther though.