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