A rogue red dwarf could eject Earth from the solar system.
Is there another star coming soon?
lorty@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
_cryptagion@quokk.au 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Ok, so still slow and painful and we have plenty of time to start panicking and killing eachother? Fantastic.
Chakravanti@monero.town 3 weeks ago
Ask AC Clark…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
have you not heard of Nemesis
cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
No I have not. Explain yourself, sir.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
No, but they’re changing water so it only has one hydrogen atom
robolemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
HO?
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 3 weeks ago
What did you just call me?
Trail@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Santa Claus intensifies.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Checks list furiously.
Sas@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
OH 😯
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
These budget cuts really are getting extreme
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I support this.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 weeks 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.