Yeah, that’d be sure to save us from the expanding sun.
If only we didn’t need that giant ball of gas to survive.
Plasma*
I was trying to make a point about the kind of technology we could have by the time the sun becomes a red giant.
Plasma is a superheated ionized gas, so by a technicality he was right.
Did you read my previous post? More than 99% of all the mass in our solar system is from the Sun, it’s impossible to generate enough energy to do anything to the Sun.
No, plasma is a phase on its own.
So how does it work? It sprays electricity into our equipment which fries it? no? It send weird waves which eats radiowaves stopping communication? bad but not too bad. My computer is safe unless it’s the former, but if it was the former my brain would also get fried as we contain many electrical impulses… which would fry our brain/body… so yeah I think it’s another bullshit thing from the MEDIA, we are all gonna die. If the media were right then civilisation as we know it would have been wiped out about 8945 times.
I read your previous post about how 99% of the mass in out solar system is from the Sun. I already knew that, and you are obviously missing my point. I said that in the BILLIONS OF YEARS it will take for the sun to expand into a red giant, provided that we survive that long, OUR TECHNOLOGY WILL HAVE CONTINUED TO ADVANCE ALSO. There is no telling what kind of technology we will have in the year 5,000,002,010. We might not even resemble the species that we are today. We might have transferred our consciousnesses into machine bodies. We might not even have bodies at all. The kind of technology we might have FIVE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW is impossible to predict. That is the point I am trying to make.
I’m not arguing about that, all I am saying is that plasma is a superheated ionized gas by definition. The reason that it is classified as its own phase is because it behaves like none of the other three phases. So yes, technically both are right. The sun started as a giant cloud of gas anyway.
yes, let’s argue about semantics. that’s so extremely relevant to the topic at hand. he was technically right, there’s no need to argue it when he got the point across. how fucking petty.
So yeah, where are they getting this data?
The most likely way for humans to survive really long term is to GTFO of earth. Gamma ray burster would royally fuck us (assuming they exist) as would a Manhattan sized asteroid, I’ll just dodge that shit in space thankyouverymuch.
Me, I’m pulling my data mostly out of my own memory mixed with a little bit of googling. Him, I have no idea.
Exactly.
It is petty, but its always more fun to argue over the details.
what do you mean ASSUMING they exist? gamma ray bursts are documented and we’re fairly sure why most of them happen. plus, that poses basically no immediate danger to us, seeing as most of them happen billions of light years away and no star close to us is big enough to collapse into a black hole and produce one. none of them have even been observed in the milky way.
I meant assuming there is a gamma ray burster pointed at earth exists. I seem to remember there is something close to us (about 3000 light years away) that looks like it might be. Assuming that is gamma ray burster.
no, i’m pretty sure there isn’t. that’s the limit of how far away it would have to be to affect us, i’m pretty sure. nearest is maybe 20,000.
edit: i’m pretty sure i say i’m pretty sure too much :fffuuu:
Lol, we’d hardly realise until it hit us anyway I suppose.
From what I remember about Gamma Ray Bursts the first one would only disrupt our magnetic field and strip away the ozone. The second burst would scorch out atmosphere, and the third burst would sterilize the surface and boil the oceans. Not a fun way to go extinct, but then again, there is no fun way to go extinct.
giant orgy to death.