[Newsbot]

Title: Will the sun devour the Earth?
Category: Science
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-09-16 20:58:26

[GreenTiger]

Yes it will gobble us up in a few million years.

[raydan]

I think it's more like 4-5 billions, but mercifully, all life on earth will have probably disappeared long before that.

[ASLplease]

why? is it hungry? whose job was it to feed the sun? perhaps they should be fired for not doing their job.

[DeBoom]

IIRC scientists aren't entirely sure. The earth's orbit is just at the edge of where the sun will expand to. So the earth could survive but all life would be killed. Good news is we have a billion years before the suns output rises enough to kill us. Plenty of time to colonize space.

[redhatmamma]

Yup - in the meantime I'm gonna keep on truckin....

bottoms up !

[PluggyRug]

It would have to do it during daytime. At night it's disappeared somewhere.

[fifeboy]

Yes, but it will find it does not taste very good.

[Lemmy]

In about 4B years, the moon will have moved far enough away from earth that the gravitational pull won't maintain the Earth's rotation. This will cause the planet to wobble and destroy all life on-board. The sun will gobble up the planet in 5-8B years, but no one will be around to see the show.

[FieryVulpine]

Lemmy Lemmy:

In about 4B years, the moon will have moved far enough away from earth that the gravitational pull won't maintain the Earth's rotation. This will cause the planet to wobble and destroy all life on-board. The sun will gobble up the planet in 5-8B years, but no one will be around to see the show.

Except for a strange man riding a fifties-era Police Box with his busty-- er, I mean trusty companion.