WE'RE SO DEAD!

[Jimbuna]

Should I cancel my son-in-laws surprise birthday party tonight then?

[STEED]

Call that news!

Boring.....

[Rockstar]

M31 is moving toward the Milky Way at about 250,000 miles per hour. At that speed we could reach the moon in an hour. This series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda as seen from Earth. The first frame is the present day; the last frame is 75 years from now.































.j/k its 700 billion not 75 years

[Eichhörnchen]

So ffs HOW LONG HAVE WE GOT?

[Rockstar]

Hard to tell as time is not absolute but is relative to one's position in the universe. I would have say soon™, or, maybe later.

[Eichhörnchen]

You were wrong about Mt Mannen... why should we listen to you now?

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

You were wrong about Mt Mannen... why should we listen to you now?

Because this time you will get a big wet long sloppy kiss.

[August]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Should I cancel my son-in-laws surprise birthday party tonight then?

Perhaps you should all lie down on the floor and put paper bags on your heads or something. Probably won't help, but it certainly can't hurt.

[Mr Quatro]

Thanks a lot Aktungbby I'm running out of aluminum foil because of you

[Aktungbby]

Move over corona virus, galaxies colliding, sun expanding into red giants etc.:[/QUOTE] Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is a truly odd place. Now it just got odder. As if the name of the planet wasn't enough, scientists recently discovered Uranus is home to fart-smelling clouds. University of Oxford researchers examining the planet's infrared light through the Gemini North telescope discovered clouds of hydrogen sulfide spreading into Uranus' upper atmosphere. That's a toxic gas that smells like rotten eggs or someone passing gas It’s a giant magnetic bubble that may have been whisking Uranus’ atmosphere out to space. A plasmoid is a structure of plasma (electrified gas) in a magnetic bubble in the magnetosphere of a planet. Astronomers have finally figured out what the clouds of Uranus consist of - and as it turns out, they smell terrible. For the first time, there's been a clear detection of hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs - and flatulence - their distinctive aroma It’s thought that a cylindrical plasmoid discovered at Uranus—which is at least 127,000 x 250,000 miles across—could be responsible for draining ions from the planet’s atmosphere, therefore causing it to lose mass. Not happy with being the coldest planet of them all and the only planet in the solar system to spin on its side (every 17 hours and 14 minutes), the “ice giant” now appears to be a “wobbly magnetic oddball” that’s leaking its atmosphere into space. [/QUOTE]

[Buddahaid]

And Yellowstone NP as well as Lassen"s Bumpass Hell.

https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view...8D5C1194A96EE5

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Uranus

Were they able to deal with the Klingons around Uranus and shouldn't we merge this thread with the TP poll?

[Aktungbby]

well that's an old line gag; but with the timely TP crises at hand(so to speke)....

[Aktungbby]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34968104/mass-extinctions-happen-every-27-million-years/

Scientists have new evidence that Earth’s many periodic mass extinctions follow a cycle of about 27 million years, connecting the five major mass extinctions with more minor ones occurring throughout Earth’s life-fostering timespan. The artificial intelligence analysis could also shift how evolutionary scientists think about the aftermath of mass extinctions....To study these events, the scientists fed more than a million data points about 170,000-plus species into a machine learning algorithm that processed all of it into one giant statistical timeline. From that information, the algorithm concluded that while the “big five” mass extinctions are part of the top 5 percent of all time population change events, so are “seven additional mass extinctions, two combined mass extinction–radiation events and 15 mass radiations.” ...Too many of a particular species almost always ends up harming the surroundings, even dramatically. Like we said: it's complicated.

My bet's on a mass radiation event from 8,000,000,000, too many of a particular species prone to "harming the surroundings"; in a whole lot less than 27,OOO,OOO years!!??

[Wolferz]

Piffle.
With the astronomical distances between stars in any galaxy the chances of anything colliding during a galactic merger would be, well, astronomical.


We stand a better chance of getting gobsmacked by some BFR hurtling through the solar system.