ZigguratofDoom
65198
2250
40
Jan 10, 2016 6:02 PM
ZigguratofDoom
65198
2250
40
pikmints
The sun giveth, the sun taketh away.
RebeccaKoala
where the hell is Mercury?
Jrex42
Oh god, this reminds me of my mom telling me about the End Times!
MrBolthead
Gosh, we're so witty. Upvotes for all!
piranha1537
No one is really sure if the sun will swallow the inner planets.. When it starts to grow as a red giant, it will also start to lose mass 1/2
piranha1537
2/3 a loss in mass means a loss in gravitational pull. The orbits will expand with the expansion of the red giant.
SaddamsPizzaGuy
The sun is like a cat. Loving and warm, but really a giant ball of rage and fire
ihazanaccount
4 to 5 billion years and counting
UsuallySpecial
If Venus had popped past like that the earth-moon system would be disrupted and probably drop into the sun in a short time anyway.
Mitchz95
Earth will be uninhabitable long before that. In about 200 million years the oceans will boil off and life as we know it will end.
GodDamsel
These are not the right colors for Venus and Mercury. I thought it was the Moon and Jupiter.
NoticeablyDrunk
Imagine if the planets could actually move closer and interact with each other.
deathbymonkeys
Truly the light is the most disturbing.
Zentira
So sleep soundly in your bed tonight.
DiceyBusiness
There's a slim chance Earth will be thrown further out/out of the solar system. Very slim.
dontDrinkTheWhiteSprite
I do not like how they made Venus bigger than Earth.
ChristopherCourtney
Where does the sun go at night?
Radis
Do you want to know more? Read THE LIFE & DEATH OF PLANET EARTH by Peter D. Ward.
PrisonMikeBiaatch
Just bought it. Thanks for the recommendation. This stuff interests me.
Radis
Sobering read, but fascinating nevertheless.
moonlitliz
Enjoy your time on earth while it lasts.
[deleted]
[deleted]
Radis
The planet would have been uninhabitable for millions of years previous to that. No people left to see the end of Earth.
spudcosmic
The sun wouldn't gain mass? Just become less dense, and the gravity would be the same.
Healthymomma9
My 6 year old is terrified by this concept. It's so had to explain a billion years from now when you've only been alive for 6. We're not ...
Healthymomma9
... Allowed to talk abot it anymore. It makes his tummy upset. :(
DrHey
I used to have panic attacks about it when I was a kid, weee! Op's post actually freaked me out a tiny tiny bit and I'm 30 now...
TheBiggestFloppiestDonkeyDick
No matter what day it happens, it will be a SUNday
MyPalmsSpaghettiKneesWeakArmsSpaghettiTheresVomitOnMySpaghetti
UTC?
CinnamonBunny
Free sundaes for everybody!
CatchyImgurUsername
Get. Out.
ZigguratofDoom
So...lunar eclipses always occur on a Moonday?
FlightRisk3154
I hate both of you. Take the damned upvote and leave.
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
Unlikely.. most of the time, it's not sunday
Dairyfiend
Aksuuuh
+1 did not expect
MooLord
Shit the fuck up. +1
Fenderzilla
It'll happen over the course of millions of years
SpectreSirisGraves
Maybe if y'all were praisin' it like you shoulda did...
ayegill
If only I could be so grossly incandescent
Drice
If SMB 3 taught me anything, it's that the sun is about the size of a pizza and that it has no mercy and burns with the rage of a sun.
murderhobbit
Venus what the shit? WE NEED THE MOON!
ForgivingCat
I'm not sure if that is Mercury or the moon...
murderhobbit
Ooohhh that makes more sense
Rotmaster
Took me a long time to realize that wasn't Jupiter
murderhobbit
And it's actually Mercury, not the moon. Soo my bad
smellslikerepost
Where's Mercury?
Pinkamenace
That is mercury
smellslikerepost
Oh wow I thought that was the moon lol
falala78
Already eaten
Pinkamenace
This is mercury
StillNotYouTube
Sorry you missed the recent news: Mercury is no longer a planet.
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
delicious
SL4pthePANCAKES
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
kpw0001
Dylan Thomas, yes? Great poem.
SL4pthePANCAKES
One of my faves :)
shinjiKuuun
Murrrrrrph!
SL4pthePANCAKES
EAR SPLITTING CHURCH ORGAN MUSIC
ziffin
quoted in Interstellar?
SL4pthePANCAKES
Yes, if you can hear it over the ear raping organ music
OuicheLorraine
The Sun will indeed expand when all the hydrogen in its core get depleted. It will become a red giant 1/2
Atharaenea
and it and the green giant will marry and have a baby, which will be a brown giant. 2/2
therealSKYKING
I know a thing or two about brown giants...
therealSKYKING
I'm pretty damn sure that in a few million years, we'll figure out how to put more hydrogen inside it's core...
delpharseven
Where do we get all that hydrogen? Even if we do get it the increased mass will make the Sun burn hotter and faster.
Grumpykrumpus
Reminds me of the Issac Asimov story "the last question"
awesock
Billion. There is no way humanity will be still alive or only on earth at that point
therealSKYKING
But it seems like that's a problem that we are already working to solve. I mean, it's not unlikely that before all the humans die off,
therealSKYKING
that we manage to colonize a planet and make the human race more diverse/harder to kill off. I have faith that science and shit'll save us.
OuicheLorraine
Then later the gas will collapse again into a white dwarf This energetic process will light the expelled gas and form a planetary nebula 2/2
AGorillaStoleMyUsername
It's shit like this that keeps me up at night, and makes me think about how pointless everything is.
anonwhymouse
Think about Gamma Ray bursts. those are really scary
OuicheLorraine
try imagining 100 bilions of stars like our Sun revolving around a gigantic Black Hole. That's our Galaxy, the Milky Way
OuicheLorraine
and there are more than 100 billion of galaxies in our Universe. Good night ^^
OuicheLorraine
Source: I'm a professional astronomer
Radis
The Life & Death of planet Earth by Peter D Ward is one of my favourite books on the subject. Do you have any other recommendations?
OuicheLorraine
this is a nice read indeed. Sorry, I don't have any other books in English, I can recommend French books but that might not be very helpful
Radis
En français c'est cool aussi. J'aurais dû y penser avant
Spudworth
It is said that the red giant would get close enough to europa to melt the surface ice and it will be mankind's best chance for survival 1/2
theothercollin
if we survive that long, we definitely won't be dependent on europa.
OuicheLorraine
I agree
Spudworth
Before its collapse to a white dwarf. 2/2
Radis
There won't be a human race in 5 billion years.
kpw0001
But isn't it also true that Earth's orbit will be affected and that it won't be swallowed by the sun, if it still exists?
Mitchz95
They're not really sure yet. For sure it won't be able to support life.
OuicheLorraine
Yes, this is a likely scenario. But temperature will rise, enough to evaporate all water and alter the atmospheric chemistry.
kpw0001
Okay, simply because of how close the sun is? The star itself would be cooler though, yes?
OuicheLorraine
yes indeed. But still, if you look at a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, the Giant Branch is still pretty damn hot.
OuicheLorraine
also, the star itself will grow but its mass loss process is going to increase like crazy. The resulting gas shell can extend up to 0.5pc
SirPowder
It's actually possible the earth will be too far away when the sun expands
Radis
Not far enough. As the Sun expands, the increasing heat will end up melting the Earth's crust. All floors will be lava.
Torenico
So not even my remains, my own bones, will survive that. What a way to fall into nothingness, such is life and death in the Universe...
WhoseDevelopmentIsArrestedAnyway
Good thing we've been training since childhood to cope with the impending doom
MEATPROCESSIR
Yup we will be an intergalactic civ or dead by then
kpw0001
My money is on dead.
falala78
No bet
ImgurMontoya
I'll bet you $10 we won't be dead
kpw0001
Deal. Your name is ImgurMontoya, prepare to die.