Re: Speculation on the fate of Earth and humanity
And people will still be waiting for their AP160s.
> Rich wrote:
[...]
By their reckoning, Earth's "day in the sun" has reached 4:30 a.m.,
corresponding to its 4.5 billion-year age. By 5 a.m., the 1
billion-year reign of animals and plants will come to an end. At 8
a.m. the oceans will vaporize. At noon - after 12 billion years -
the
ever-expanding sun, transformed into a red giant, will engulf the
planet, melting away any evidence it ever existed and sending
molecules and atoms that once were Earth floating off into space.
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