The Death of the Earth and Sun
1. Several billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day.
2. Then, over a period of millions of years, the Sun will swell, the Earth will heat, many lifeforms will be extinguished, and the shoreline will retreat.
3. The oceans will rapidly evaporate and the atmosphere will escape to space.
4. As the Sun evolves toward a red giant, the Earth will become dry, barren and airless. Eventually, the Sun will fill most of the sky, and may engulf the Earth.
{ Carl Sagan, Cosmos , p. 228-229 | paintings by Adolf Schaller }
May 31st, 2007 at 1:41 am
and then OBama will be reborn again…
September 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Great i was looking for something optimistic to soothe my monday morning.
September 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Okay the Sun engulfs the Earth, and then what happens? I hate it when someone doesn’t finish a story.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Yeah, I know Sparky….it’s a cliff hanger!
Besides, isn’t the universe gonna do it’s elastic snap back and collapse upon itself long before all that happens anyway???
September 13th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
To Sparky…
Then we all become nothing. Everything will be like how it was before you were born. Your existence is ‘non’.