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- From: markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr)
- Subject: Re: Who are we kidding?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:38:45 GMT
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- In article <2B0C22CA.3305@news.service.uci.edu> cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.133156.15828@mic.ucla.edu> suzi@trifid.astro.ucla.edu (Suzanne Casement) writes:
- >>> Best estimates of the Sun's stable future is about 20 billion
- >>>years, FYI. It's a real mellow G-type.
- >>>
- >>> Kayembee
- >>
- >>Hate to disillusion you but the estimated lifetime of a G-type star like
- >>the sun is only about 10 billion years. Therefore it would only barely
- >>have enough time to rejuvinate life before evolving into a red giant and
- >>cooking all the interior planets, if life could even evolve again since
- >>the conditions during which life evolved were much different than they
- >>are today.
- >
- >Just one not-so-minor nitpick. Earth and the Sun would not have to
- >evolve life all over again. Sure, getting it started all over again
- >would be a chore and took a way fucking long time the first time around,
- >but there would doubtless be some forms of life that would not become
- >extinct even after we're done screwing over the planet. Even if only
- >one little colony of cockroaches survives, they're hardy enough to keep
- >going.
- >
- >We were little shrew thangs when the dinosaurs kacked, and 65 million
- >years later, it looks like we're going down the same path. 65 million
- >years from now, that little pest you tried to squish under your sink will
- >be running the place.
-
- If I've got any kind of vote, or can do anything to change the aim, I
- vote for cats & dolphins. *PLEASE*, not the damn roaches....
- >
- mark
-