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