A rogue red dwarf could eject Earth from the solar system.
Is there another star coming soon?
lorty@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
_cryptagion@quokk.au 2 days 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 2 days 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Ok, so still slow and painful and we have plenty of time to start panicking and killing eachother? Fantastic.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 days ago
Ask AC Clark…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
have you not heard of Nemesis
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 2 days ago
No I have not. Explain yourself, sir.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
No, but they’re changing water so it only has one hydrogen atom
robolemmy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
HO?
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 2 days ago
What did you just call me?
Trail@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Santa Claus intensifies.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Checks list furiously.
Sas@beehaw.org 2 days ago
OH 😯
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
These budget cuts really are getting extreme
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 day 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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I support this.