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mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think there’s maybe more risk with the solar system being thrown off balance with other gravitational forces pulling things out of orbit. Even if earth just gets pulled away from the sun a little we are screwed. Or even the moon pulled away from earth somewhat.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even if earth just gets pulled away from the sun a little we are screwed.

    I get what you’re saying, but had to laugh at the use of “a little” here. The goldilocks zone in the solar system is roughly the between the orbits of Venus and Mars, and we’re almost right in the middle of it, so “a little” is like 150 million km.

    I would imagine that the first issue we would experience would be that the moon would be pulled out of Earth’s orbit first and then we lose the ocean tides and the stable tilt of the earth. It would probably get worse from there.

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Goldilocks zone is basically just where life can survive.

      Even if we stay within the Goldilocks zone doesn’t mean that most of the species alive today won’t go extinct because it fucks up the seasons or the magnetic poles or tilt of the earth, etc.

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      • DrWorm@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll counter global warming

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could the other galaxy please pull us just the correct distance away from the sun to cancel the effect of global warming?

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given the vastness of space, this is a lot less likely than you might think, and the process itself would likely take millenia anyway.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s even safer. The odds that it’s coming directly at us to “collide” is low. Moving towards us doesn’t mean it’s moving directly at us. If you’re driving down the road, all cars going in the other direction get doppler shifted. They’re coming towards you, they pass beside you (hopefully), and then they’re moving away from you.

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• AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and lose the character of the spiral arm configuration? For what? A blob??

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