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[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll be gone a long time before that.

A bitchy trampoline might invite some ultra wealthy aliens to watch it burn, though.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that a doctor who reference?

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're lucky, that was the only non 1976 doctor who episode I watched

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would S1E2 of Doctor Who (2005) be the only episode you watched? That seems weird to me.

But, I personally wasn’t the biggest fan of Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor. He did a fantastic job, but David Tennent had so much more energy and flare. Him and Katherine Tate’s Doctor + Companion in Season 4 was comedic genius.

I can’t speak to the last two Doctors they’ve had, but up until then, the series is simply fantastic. And, they go out of their way to pay homage to the original Doctors many times over. Probably even in ways I’ve never noticed because I’ve not watched the original Doctor Who.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alright, it was a slight exaggeration. I watched episode 1 of the same series too.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’d strongly recommend powering through. Though I guess you could skip season 1 if you wanted. You’d miss a few references, but IIRC, nothing major. It does get better.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice try sunny, but we’re on track to offing ourselves way before that.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But ironically, the main way we're trying is by ruining our planet's ability to protect us from the Sun.

...other than nuclear war.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Which is odd bc chemistry does not work that way - probably a consequence of calling it "global warming" in bygone eras.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joke's on you, sun, we'll make this planet inhospitable long before you can get us!

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the Sun's going to be the thing making it inhospitable, just not due to "dying"

[–] tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first time I learned about this as a wee lad, I was genuinely Concerned

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Remembers me of where my sis told me as a child that "the sun will explode" and we got staring at it with those cardboard glasses. It didn't and i was disapointed. Learned later that it was meant to be sun coronae.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

It giveth and it taketh. Honestly pretty fair, I think we get a good deal here.

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joke's on you, Sun. We can just leave. Or maybe even fix you.

(So many doomer "we'll kill ourselves first" responses in this thread. How science of everyone.)

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

We can just dump some comet ice into the oceans and cool Earth off. And if it gets really bad, we'll just get all the robots on one side of the earth and hit the gas at the right moment, thus increasing the distance from the sun.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How science of everyone

For 50 years, science has been telling us that we're well and truly fucked if we don't do something about climate change. We didn't. I don't think the species is gonna die out (thought millions of other species will and are). You're talking like we're gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years? Or colonize outer planets? It's science fiction...at least for next few 100 years. We can't rely on a deus ex machina save...we gotta take care of the planet we evolved to live on...if we aren't strong enough for that, I don't think we're getting anywhere near K-II.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

You're talking like we're gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years?

Hardly. We have plenty of time for that, there's no rush.

Or colonize outer planets? It's science fiction...at least for next few 100 years.

Again, a few hundred years is nothing. The sun won't become problematic for a few hundred million years.

We can't rely on a deus ex machina save.

Things like Dyson swarms and star lifting are not "deus ex machina", they're scientifically rigorous proposals.

if we aren't strong enough for that, I don't think we're getting anywhere near K-II.

Getting to K-II means not needing the planet we evolved to live on.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outer solar system: Try me, bitch.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Outer solar system becomes inner solar system. The king is dead all hail the new king!

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We'll have a Dyson Sphere that's able to retrieve all of the energy of the supernova. The energy will be used in an hour to mine some crypto.

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[Outer Wilds cycle end music intensifies]

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

This is fine meme.:-)

Fuck you buddy, we're gonna cook ourselves first!

That'll teach ya...

But not today

[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there insurances for that?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Boy, do I have a book to sell ya. I tell ya what, it's a real miracle, changed people's lives.

[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holy insurance.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

The music from The Outer Wilds starts playing πŸ˜…

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And what a great funeral pire it will be.

Even if we don't cause our own extinction, the sun is getting hotter as it ages and in approximately 1 billion years it will have gotten hot enough to render Earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.

Then, 3-4 billion years after that, it'll finish the job by most likely swallowing up 3 of the inner planets when it reaches the red giant phase of its life. Even the corpse of Earth will die.

[–] ma11en@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You won't though.

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I can't wait