My existential angst over the death of the earth somewhat alleviated.

[Coventina]

For whatever reason, ever since I was a kid and I heard about the sun turning into a red giant and devouring the earth in a few billion years, I've been bummed out about it.

I don't know, I'm just weird, I guess.

But, I was just watching an interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson, and he said that it should actually be possible to engineer the sun to last over a TRILLION years!!

I don't know why, but that really cheered me up!

I know, it makes no sense, because the end is still inevitable, but for some reason, I thought that was pretty awesome. That we could actually (theoretically) do that.

Science is cool.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. And there's something else that might cheer you up:

Even a billion years is a very VERY long time!

[Coventina]

2. Thanks California Peggy!

A billion years is a long time.

I think I've lived a billion or so this summer alone.

I hope you are keeping cool!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. We are keeping as cool as possible!

Thank goodness our a/c works. And today wasn't quite as bad as yesterday.......and tomorrow is supposed to be a bit better!



too!

[tblue37]

3. Well, we will drive our species (and most other higher animals) to extinction long before that. nt

[Coventina]

4. Well, maybe the planet will let some other species take our place.

Maybe we can leave the theory behind for them....

[Coventina]

6. kicking for the late night crowd...