Comments on: Saving the Sun http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/ WHAT REALLY MATTERS Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Saving the Sun by: matt http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-22 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:25:04 +0000 http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-22 1. Heat death of the universe happens much much later than the sun becomes a red giant and is another issue entirely. 2. Jupiter may not be much compared to the size of the sun, thus why I estimated only a few million more years which is not much at all compared to the current lifetime of the sun, but will be a significant amount of time for humans or even post-humans. 1. Heat death of the universe happens much much later than the sun becomes a red giant and is another issue entirely.

2. Jupiter may not be much compared to the size of the sun, thus why I estimated only a few million more years which is not much at all compared to the current lifetime of the sun, but will be a significant amount of time for humans or even post-humans.

]]> Comment on Saving the Sun by: Ray Larabie http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-21 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:04:00 +0000 http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-21 Okay, I'll stop after this one. I think by that point, the phsycial Earth and sun won't matter much. In the post-human enviroment we'll probably have enough control over our energy use that the embers of what's left of the sun will be enough to go for a couple billion more. But in the longer term forecast, recent cosmological research points to "death by ice" for the universe. Everything keeps expanding and cooling until it all runs out. But then there's the 70% of the universe that hasn't been accounted for - the dark matter whcih might be put to good use. Whatever. Check out Alpha & Omega by Charles Seife for a good cosmology lesson based on relatively up-to-date research (two years ago). BTW: I think Jupiter doesn't amount to much, mass-wise compared to the sun - there's a lot of fluff. It's probably like throwing candy wrappers into a campfire at the end of the night. Okay, I’ll stop after this one. I think by that point, the phsycial Earth and sun won’t matter much. In the post-human enviroment we’ll probably have enough control over our energy use that the embers of what’s left of the sun will be enough to go for a couple billion more. But in the longer term forecast, recent cosmological research points to “death by ice” for the universe. Everything keeps expanding and cooling until it all runs out. But then there’s the 70% of the universe that hasn’t been accounted for - the dark matter whcih might be put to good use. Whatever.

Check out Alpha & Omega by Charles Seife for a good cosmology lesson based on relatively up-to-date research (two years ago).

BTW: I think Jupiter doesn’t amount to much, mass-wise compared to the sun - there’s a lot of fluff. It’s probably like throwing candy wrappers into a campfire at the end of the night.

]]> Comment on Saving the Sun by: burgletime http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-17 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:02:18 +0000 http://zomghott.com/zomgblog/2006/01/25/saving-the-sun/#comment-17 LOOK OUT SUN JUPITER WILL SLICE YOU IN HALF LOOK OUT SUN JUPITER WILL SLICE YOU IN HALF

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