http://www.metafilter.com/tags/wereliketotallydoomed Posts tagged with 'wereliketotallydoomed' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 May 2006 11:39:42 -0800 Mon, 08 May 2006 11:39:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/51466/Things%2Dto%2Dlook%2Dforward%2Dto <a href="http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/senior/astrophysics/stellarevolution_postmain.html">We have about 4 billion years left until our planet is going to be destroyed.</a> If a meteor doesn't <a href="http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~astro7/Meteor/impact.html">smash us in</a> first, over the next 250 million years the continents will continue drifting to form <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast06oct_1.htm">another pangea</a>. If we're <a href="http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/">all still friends</a> having survived the <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change">climate change</a> and each other, we'll be roasted by the expanding <a href="http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/starold.html">red giant</a> after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun">our sun</a> exhausts its interior hydrogen supply. In about 5.5 billion years time the helium left in the core will get hot and dense enough to burn, flaring up in a <a href="http://www.aavso.org/vstar/vsots/0602.shtml">massive helium flash </a>engulfing what remains of the solar system. When the helium core is gone, hydrogen in the outermost layers will drift off to form a <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010729.html">ring nebula</a>, leaving in the middle a bright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf">white dwarf star</a> that will slowly cool down into a cold, dense <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf">black dwarf</a>: a silent and forgotten fossil, floating through <a href="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/07/images/a/formats/print.jpg">infinite space</a>. In other news: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3790753522267185109">cats are funny</a>! hahahahaha! tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51466 Mon, 08 May 2006 11:39:42 -0800 blackdwarf endoftheworld inevitability redgiant ringnebula talkingcats theend thesun wereliketotallydoomed whitedwarf 6am