I love science.

[theweaselking]

Holy crap, it's *headed right for us*.

In about a million and a half years, Gliese 710, a K-type main sequence star somewhere around 50% of the mass of the Sun, will enter the Oort Cloud.

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Well, 86% probability of entering the Oort Cloud, with a .1% chance of it making it to the Kuiper Belt. Still. We must take action! Get the generation ships ready for Alpha Centauri!

We've needed a good comet shower

[skippy-fluff.livejournal.com]

for a while now, haven't we? I know I don't really feel clean.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

I love the verbiage. It's headed for OUR solar system! WE will have to keep OUR heads down when it happens!



Just a note, but the chances that WE, humans, will see any of this are pretty fucking remote, I'd say. And in 1.5 million years, I doubt that, should we survive, WE will still be stuck on this rock, in this solar system, unable to get out of the way.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm just hoping this gets the Nibiru idiots worked up.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

And "orange dwarf"?

No Oompa Loompa jokes yet?

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think after living for 1.5 million years, getting hit by a star would be a pretty awesome way to die.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

The article says that the sun has an encounter every 2 million years and the next one is in 1.5 -- then the last encounter must[1] have been roughly half a million ago. Suddenly Velikofsky is sounding believable!


[1] Yes, yes.

Long term problems demand worthless solutions

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

The government has deployed the extremely low frequency transmitter and have begun sending our message in unencrypted American Morse. Advisers are still deciding the body of the message, but everyone is in agreement about that which has been sent already:

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU-"

Transmission completion will complete in about 3 years, and while ELF is not transmittable through stellar medium, we all agree it will make US feel better at a cost of only 50 billion dollars to the taxpayer.

Submariners don't count among the "us" that will "feel better".