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Posted on 1/16/26 at 6:39 pm to Cell of Awareness
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And all proof we existed as a species will disappear in one of these ways.
Near- to medium-term (next ~1 billion years,)
Extremely large planetary collision — Mars-/Mercury-sized rogue planet or massive protoplanet impact ? melts/vaporizes crust, sterilizes planet
Very close gamma-ray burst (GRB) from merging neutron stars/black holes — direct beam within ~100–6,000 light-years ? strips ozone + massive radiation ? boils oceans in extreme cases
Extremely nearby supernova — within ~30–50 light-years ? massive radiation + heat ? destroys ozone, sterilizes surface + deep ocean in strongest cases
Massive supervolcano swarm + climate feedbacks — extreme prolonged volcanic winter + anoxic oceans ? total biosphere collapse (very unlikely to kill everything)
Giant asteroid/comet shower (e.g., triggered by stellar flyby) — multiple Chicxulub-scale+ impacts ? global firestorms, impact winter, ocean boiling in extreme scenarios
Very long-term (inevitable unless life escapes elsewhere)~0.8–1.3 billion years —
Solar brightening ? CO2 starvation + extreme heat ? multicellular life dies, then eukaryotes, finally most prokaryotes
~1.5–2.8 billion years —
Continued solar heating ? last microbes die in shrinking refugia (high-latitude ponds, deep caverns, atmosphere)
Sun enters red giant phase ? Earth engulfed/swallowed or roasted to molten rock ? total sterilization
Sun becomes white dwarf ? Earth (if surviving) becomes frozen rogue cinder in permanent darkness
Reformation of a supercontinent (often called Pangaea Ultima or Pangaea Proxima) around 250 million years from now will likely destroy most complex life—especially mammals—by creating extreme global heat and aridity from increased volcanic CO2 emissions, a brighter aging Sun, vast inland deserts far from oceans, and temperatures exceeding 40–70°C across most of the landmass, rendering over 90% of Earth's surface uninhabitable and triggering a mass extinction event for land-dwelling species.
Of course there are billion other ways of which we have not even the ability to understand.
Posted on 1/16/26 at 6:56 pm to Shexter
quote:nah man, the sun consumes matter from its center and evacuates from its surface.
or is Earth facing the sun's butthole for half the year?
The entire surface is its butthole, so we’re always facing it and getting light and heat shite down on us.
Posted on 1/16/26 at 7:56 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
All of the elements that make your body were made by suns that created heavier and heavier elements with a fusion reaction that were then dispersed by them when they went nova.
The calcium in your bones. The iron in your blood.
We are made up of the stuff created by stars.
The calcium in your bones. The iron in your blood.
We are made up of the stuff created by stars.
Posted on 1/16/26 at 8:01 pm to toosleaux
Everytime I see your name I wonder what happened to that gay liberal Sleauxplay
Posted on 1/16/26 at 10:05 pm to toosleaux
Posted on 1/16/26 at 10:24 pm to toosleaux
Almost nightly. It truly blows my mind how vast the universe is and how small we are. Amazing.
Posted on 1/16/26 at 11:01 pm to tigerbait703
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The moon, with very little gravity, can tug on the earths oceans and create tides. I still don't get how that's possible, with how small and far away it is.
Basically, this brief explanation which isn't broadly known. Local tidal predictions in time and amplitude for any arbitrary point on Earth are complex, but the math well known and accurate, absent wind related forcing on any given day, tidal surges an example.
You are correct that gravity is a weak force, a very interesting subject outside of Newtonian, classical physics. We don't exactly know how it works.
Posted on 1/16/26 at 11:06 pm to fr33manator
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And then, look over at someone you love. Your sister
And say roll tide. And make a nephson.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:15 am to FAT SEXY
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Try to figure out how that creator began and be mind fricked for life
Nah, I just stop at Creator. Everything I see demands a creator. I see nothing that the creator demands a creator.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:43 am to fr33manator
I would have called you gay 3 years ago reading this 
I think and feel this way every single day now that I have a little one.
I’ve read your post multiple times with a smile on my face
I think and feel this way every single day now that I have a little one.
I’ve read your post multiple times with a smile on my face
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:44 am to toosleaux
Pay bills? Man, you gotta get teedy and lightfoot on this shite.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 5:36 am to toosleaux
Pass that shite. My kind of discussion.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 5:36 am
Posted on 1/17/26 at 5:44 am to toosleaux
Every morning on my way to work when I drive down the beach.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:22 am to toosleaux
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Do you ever look out the window and see the moon and think how weird all of this is?
Yes, which is why I don’t take things too seriously. No matter what you accomplish in this world, it will be forgotten in a cosmic eye blink. Even names like Washington, Napoleon, and Caesar will be erased from memory one day.
My fundamental life principle is that I was born on this rock and want to see as much of it as I can before I die, so I put a heavy emphasis on world travel.
Headed to El Salvador on Monday.
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