>> > Heres a scary thought, in a few hundred million years time the sun will
>> > eventually burn out, our planet will get bloody cold, we'll all die, so
>WHO's
>> > gonna look after our LBC's then..........
>>
> My astronomy friends tell me that before the sun cools that much,
> it will become a "red giant" and grow to the size that will include
> where earth orbits now (which will be terribly hard on the paint)...
> Hey, I don't know about you but I'll have the "Green Man" off-planet
> by then!
Ah, but the decreased mass of the sun will cause the Earth to be
orbiting further out by then, I think roughly between current and Mars, or
perhaps even as far out as Mars is, and thus it won't get englobed. A bit
cooked, perhaps.
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Randell Jesup, Scala US R&D, Ex-Commodore-Amiga Engineer class of '94
Randell.Jesup@scala.com
Exon food: <offensive words censored by order of the Senate>
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