Prof. De Paor, on occasion, has the entire class concerned about the end of the world. Don’t worry, this is geology; not religion. In our last class he was discussing how the magnetic field would eventually disintegrate and neglect to shield us from the radioactive solar winds, essentially sending mass amounts of UV radiation down to us.
He was convinced that by the time that happened we would have studied the magnetic field so much that scientists would find a way protect us.
I guess that is sorta comforting but then comes the case where…uh…when is the sun going to explode? Cause all these things are a ‘when’ and not an ‘if’.
Obviously, not in the lifetime of any of us is any of this going to happen. So why be so concerned? A couple students in the class looked as though in terror. I speculate- that it is the perception that we are the only intelligent (and possibly non intelligent) life on any planet. And we don’t want what happened to Mars to happen to us, right? Poor Mars. (They lost their atmosphere when they lost they magnetic field and then all the H2O evaporated and blahblahblah)
But really? By the time we have to protect ourselves from the sun’s rays we’ll have to protect ourselves from a newly formed black hole where the sun used to be. Haha, let’s see our scientists get us out of that one. I don’t think there are any other class M planets in this sector, Captain.
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pluto is pretty much gone, we sarted with nine now we're down with one.
ever seen the Time Machine (w/ Guy Pearce)? if anything, we'll colonize the moon, before the earth blows up. though this will lead to mass extinction of the human race when the moon blows up. nevertheless, in the end (and after several hundreds of millennia) the human race will once again surfaces.
-lea
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