As I said, I really hope not. Doesn’t really matter what hypothetical situation you talk about, if it involves another star being in or close to our solar system, it’s gonna end badly for us.
I assume it would be very fast and painless if it just comes charging in.
Even if it comes in very fast, you’re still talking about many months of forewarning, perhaps even many hundreds of years if it was a “normal” star instead of something like a brown dwarf.
And I really hope it stays that way, at least until it’s not my problem to worry about anymore.
Is there another star coming soon?
No, but they’re changing water so it only has one hydrogen atom
HO?
What did you just call me?
Santa Claus intensifies.
Checks list furiously.
OH 😯
These budget cuts really are getting extreme
I support this.
Give a person a glass of H2O and they drink for a day. Give a person a glass of OH and they’ll never have to drink again.
A rogue red dwarf could eject Earth from the solar system.
Ask AC Clark…
As I said, I really hope not. Doesn’t really matter what hypothetical situation you talk about, if it involves another star being in or close to our solar system, it’s gonna end badly for us.
I assume it would be very fast and painless if it just comes charging in.
But I suppose if it just saunters by slowly and pulls us out of our usual orbit, maybe we have a few days or weeks of mass confusion and suffering?
Even if it comes in very fast, you’re still talking about many months of forewarning, perhaps even many hundreds of years if it was a “normal” star instead of something like a brown dwarf.
Ok, so still slow and painful and we have plenty of time to start panicking and killing eachother? Fantastic.
have you not heard of Nemesis
No I have not. Explain yourself, sir.
some people used to think we had a second sun/brown dwarf/red dwarf/something that caused a bunch of regular extinctions