A rogue red dwarf could eject Earth from the solar system.
Is there another star coming soon?
lorty@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
_cryptagion@quokk.au 10 months ago
As I said, I really hope not. Doesn't really matter what hypothetical situation you talk about, if it involves another star being in or close to our solar system, it's gonna end badly for us.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I assume it would be very fast and painless if it just comes charging in.
But I suppose if it just saunters by slowly and pulls us out of our usual orbit, maybe we have a few days or weeks of mass confusion and suffering?
_cryptagion@quokk.au 10 months ago
I assume it would be very fast and painless if it just comes charging in.
Even if it comes in very fast, you're still talking about many months of forewarning, perhaps even many hundreds of years if it was a "normal" star instead of something like a brown dwarf.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Ok, so still slow and painful and we have plenty of time to start panicking and killing eachother? Fantastic.
Chakravanti@monero.town 10 months ago
Ask AC Clark…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
have you not heard of Nemesis
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 10 months ago
No I have not. Explain yourself, sir.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
some people used to think we had a second sun/brown dwarf/red dwarf/something that caused a bunch of regular extinctions
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 10 months ago
No, but they’re changing water so it only has one hydrogen atom
robolemmy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HO?
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 10 months ago
What did you just call me?
Trail@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Santa Claus intensifies.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Checks list furiously.
Sas@beehaw.org 10 months ago
OH 😯
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
These budget cuts really are getting extreme
buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I support this.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Give a person a glass of H2O and they drink for a day. Give a person a glass of OH and they’ll never have to drink again.