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Old 2008-11-21, 17:21   Link #41
Blaat
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Originally Posted by Vexx View Post
aye, we'll be marshmallows on fire long before the cooling phase.... if the sun follows the predicted pattern it will slowly expand in size til the surface is somewhere near the orbit of Mars -- but thats a few billion years down the road.
Even more depressing: life on Earth won't even see the 'death of the sun', the sun is getting more luminous and hotter by 10% every 1 billion years or so. So in one billion years the Earth will be too hot to sustain life. ^^
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