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    7 months ago

    We’ll be gone a long time before that.

    A bitchy trampoline might invite some ultra wealthy aliens to watch it burn, though.

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            7 months ago

            Why would S1E2 of Doctor Who (2005) be the only episode you watched? That seems weird to me.

            But, I personally wasn’t the biggest fan of Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor. He did a fantastic job, but David Tennent had so much more energy and flare. Him and Katherine Tate’s Doctor + Companion in Season 4 was comedic genius.

            I can’t speak to the last two Doctors they’ve had, but up until then, the series is simply fantastic. And, they go out of their way to pay homage to the original Doctors many times over. Probably even in ways I’ve never noticed because I’ve not watched the original Doctor Who.

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                7 months ago

                I’d strongly recommend powering through. Though I guess you could skip season 1 if you wanted. You’d miss a few references, but IIRC, nothing major. It does get better.

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      7 months ago

      But ironically, the main way we’re trying is by ruining our planet’s ability to protect us from the Sun.

      …other than nuclear war.

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        7 months ago

        Which is odd bc chemistry does not work that way - probably a consequence of calling it “global warming” in bygone eras.

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      7 months ago

      Well, the Sun’s going to be the thing making it inhospitable, just not due to “dying”

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      7 months ago

      Remembers me of where my sis told me as a child that “the sun will explode” and we got staring at it with those cardboard glasses. It didn’t and i was disapointed. Learned later that it was meant to be sun coronae.

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    7 months ago

    We’ll have a Dyson Sphere that’s able to retrieve all of the energy of the supernova. The energy will be used in an hour to mine some crypto.

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    7 months ago

    Joke’s on you, Sun. We can just leave. Or maybe even fix you.

    (So many doomer “we’ll kill ourselves first” responses in this thread. How science of everyone.)

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      7 months ago

      We can just dump some comet ice into the oceans and cool Earth off. And if it gets really bad, we’ll just get all the robots on one side of the earth and hit the gas at the right moment, thus increasing the distance from the sun.

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      7 months ago

      How science of everyone

      For 50 years, science has been telling us that we’re well and truly fucked if we don’t do something about climate change. We didn’t. I don’t think the species is gonna die out (thought millions of other species will and are). You’re talking like we’re gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years? Or colonize outer planets? It’s science fiction…at least for next few 100 years. We can’t rely on a deus ex machina save…we gotta take care of the planet we evolved to live on…if we aren’t strong enough for that, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere near K-II.

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        You’re talking like we’re gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years?

        Hardly. We have plenty of time for that, there’s no rush.

        Or colonize outer planets? It’s science fiction…at least for next few 100 years.

        Again, a few hundred years is nothing. The sun won’t become problematic for a few hundred million years.

        We can’t rely on a deus ex machina save.

        Things like Dyson swarms and star lifting are not “deus ex machina”, they’re scientifically rigorous proposals.

        if we aren’t strong enough for that, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere near K-II.

        Getting to K-II means not needing the planet we evolved to live on.

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    7 months ago

    Even if we don’t cause our own extinction, the sun is getting hotter as it ages and in approximately 1 billion years it will have gotten hot enough to render Earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.

    Then, 3-4 billion years after that, it’ll finish the job by most likely swallowing up 3 of the inner planets when it reaches the red giant phase of its life. Even the corpse of Earth will die.