• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    8 months ago

    Our sun will not explode, it will become a red giant, progressively grill us, pulse and contract to a white dwarf. Got a couple hundreds of millions of years before the intensity becomes unbearable, that’s a thousand times the age of our species. Hopefully we have figured interstellar travel by then, if we don’t have already destroyed ourselves. https://www.space.com/solar-system-fate-when-sun-dies

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      8 months ago

      I’m hoping we figure out starlifting before then. With a bit of help, our sun could last much longer.

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          8 months ago

          “Thus solving the problem once and for all.”

          “But…”

          “Once and for all!”