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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sun eventually goes supernova.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago

Yeah but in the process it'll scour the surface off the earth so it's not all bad news

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read in this book that there's a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.

[–] fluke@snake.substantialplumbing.repair 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

It’s another spin on the aforementioned restaurant. It’s from a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. In said restaurant (Milliways) the cows have been bred to wanting to be eaten and expressing said wish directly to the customers.

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax.

[–] fluke@snake.substantialplumbing.repair 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not bright at all. That's the darkest thing.

[–] Donovar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's totally not a worse death.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star's life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won't be anyone around to notice.