Ten billion years

[cornflower]

Originally Posted by TangMan

Fix'd!

No, no! I want to be eaten up by fat, miniature dachshunds! Isn't that a cool death as opposed to suicide, or falling down the stairs, or getting shot, even?

[parrythis]

Originally Posted by jaroslav

Gah... I told you people that I had it all worked out so that we would survive for another ten billion years or more. I didn't choose ten randomly. In about four to five billon years the sun will convert all of its helium to hydrogen and become a massive red giant. Then we will be enveloped by the sun out to Mars. But not if we protect the earth with a shield of some kind of matter. I have that part worked out too. If we go to, say, the moon Titan and wait for another sun to form, we could go back to the earth that is covered by said material and rebuild everything. Hence there will be an attic in a building underground with things that people have stored.

OHHHHHHhhhhh! Why didn't you say so?

Well, then, the thing I would put in my attic would be a peanut butter sandwich, because I like peanut butter sandwiches and, you know, after 10 billion years, I'm going to be hungry.

You do, I assume, have it worked out that I can survive 10 billion years too, yes?

[Jengar]

Originally Posted by parrythis

Well, then, the thing I would put in my attic would be a peanut butter sandwich, because I like peanut butter sandwiches and, you know, after 10 billion years, I'm going to be hungry.

Chunky or creamy peanut butter? It does make a difference.

[D'Art]

I'll put (most of) my exes in there, along with a time-controlled bomb of some description. And the wrong disarming instructions. In Klingon. Just to tease them.

Not that I dislike them or anything.....

[HDG]

Originally Posted by OROD

The Suns life on the main sequence is approximately 10 billion years. Since it's about 5 billions years old now, I'd say we have about another 5 billion left, not 1.

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Indeed, but the issue is not the sun's death, but when in its life cycle it renders life on this planet impossible.

[D'Art]

Actually, scrap my last suggestion, though I do still like it.

I'll put a litter of kittens in there and see what evolves from it. I wonder if it'll be as funny as Red Dwarf.

[parrythis]

Originally Posted by Jengar

Chunky or creamy peanut butter? It does make a difference.

I'm thinking chunky.

[Jengar]

Originally Posted by parrythis

I'm thinking chunky.

Good choice. Better shelf life.

[wahrman]

I would leave nothing but a copy of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music".

On vinyl.

[sabreur]

Originally Posted by jaroslav

In about four to five billon years the sun will convert all of its helium to hydrogen and become a massive red giant.

Since this thread has come back to life--the sun converts hydrogen to helium, not vice-versa. That's why it is called a "hydrogen bomb," not a "helium bomb."

[Beloit Fencer of Old]

Originally Posted by Cry_Me_A_River

An Intel CPU to show ppl how slow the "NOW" was and a severed penis to wish them more prosperous years.

Would you use the one from TheNakedSword? Because he uses a straight razor, you know! It's bound to slip SOMETIME...

[jaroslav]

Originally Posted by sabreur

Since this thread has come back to life--the sun converts hydrogen to helium, not vice-versa. That's why it is called a "hydrogen bomb," not a "helium bomb."

No no, I think I'm quite right. I'm an expert in how cosmology and theoretical physics is different in Dystopian Utopia. We have helium bombs. They're quite effective.

[HDG]

Originally Posted by jaroslav

No no, I think I'm quite right. I'm an expert in how cosmology and theoretical physics is different in Dystopian Utopia. We have helium bombs. They're quite effective.

Loud pops, no thermal effect, no overpressure.

[parrythis]

Originally Posted by jaroslav

We have helium bombs. They're quite effective.

That is true, if your objective is to make your enemy talk like chipmunks for thirty seconds.

[jaroslav]

The laws of the universe are different where I live. It's like chaos theory on a very large scale.

[Inquartata]

You know, renaming Bizarro World 'Dystopian Utopia' is not fooling anyone.

Meanwhile, what I would put in the postulated impossible attic would be---the magical portrait of myself which is currently---er, never mind, forget I said anything.

[jaroslav]

You wouldn't believe how bizarre it is... I rob banks for the government!

[parryDoh]

Originally Posted by OROD

The Suns life on the main sequence is approximately 10 billion years. Since it's about 5 billions years old now, I'd say we have about another 5 billion left, not 1.

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The sun may never reach that point, since the Andromeda Galaxy will crash into the milky way in about 3 billion years. Depending on how the collision goes, the sun could fall into a super massive black hole...

http://haydenplanetarium.org/resourc...=G0601andmilwy

Does your attic have Galaxy Collision Insurance?

[jaroslav]

I took that into consideration too. But the Andromeda galaxy is so massive that we may never reach the center.

[parrythis]

Originally Posted by jaroslav

You wouldn't believe how bizarre it is... I rob banks for the government!

So... you work for the Federal Reserve?