[Vision2020] Wilson's Favorite Dish

[Donovan Arnold]

Ted,
 
We have a billion years left! Yet you somehow make it seem like that is isn't much time at all.
 
I evolved from dust, and I will devolve to dust. Probably long before we reach the end of that 1 billion year time frame, so I am not too concerned about the situation; Although it does seem to make recycling kind of pointless if the Earth is just going to end up getting sucked into the Sun anyway in a time frame the Cosmos considers the blink of an eye. 
 
Donovan Arnold
 
PS Ted my spellchecker says your last name is "Miffed". I didn't even know that was a word. 

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson's Favorite Dish
To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Janesta" <janesta at gmail.com>, "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>, "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:23 PM


In fact, we know already an approximate time period for when the world
will end, or at least the Earth as a biosphere as we know it, based on
the science of stellar evolution:  these scientific doomsayers are
correct, and we know it now.

Of course, homo sapiens may become extinct before the "end of the
world," as have almost all species to evolve on Earth.  But life is
extremely tenacious and is highly likely to survive in some form for
hundreds of millions of years.  But only miraculous technology could
prevent our sun's evolution from destroying the Earth.  If homo
sapiens survives, we have millions of years to migrate somewhere else
before this happens.  But the Earth as a life sustaining planet is in
old age, with 3.5 or so billion years of life having passed and
arguably not more than about 1 billion years left.

>From brainiac mathematician/physicist John Baez's (
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html ) "Brief History of the
Universe" http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/timeline.html#future :
"1.1 billion years from now - The Sun becomes 10% brighter than today.
Runaway greenhouse effect may evaporate the Earth's oceans. If so, the
water in upper atmosphere will photodissociate and the hydrogen will
sail off into outer space."

The "Big Rip" theory in physics, if true, would mean the final end of
our entire universe, but this is long after our sun has died.
>From American Institute of Physics website on "The Big Rip"
http://www.aip.org/png/2003/200.htm : "In the Big Rip model of
cosmology, "phantom energy," a particular kind of dark energy
supposedly fueling the accelerating expansion of the universe, will,
in the course of time, undo all the bound states prevalent in nature.
In this way galaxies would lose their constituent stars. Later solar
systems would fly apart. Later still even atoms would break apart
since electrons would no longer be held by their associated nuclei."
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On 5/15/11, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This poor soul. His world will not be the same after May 21st. He will
> discover he made a mathematical error and set a new date. Of course we all
> know that even a broken clock can be right twice a day. Eventually, one of
> these doomsayers will be correct. Ironically, we just won't know which one
> until just before we die.
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson's Favorite Dish
> To: "Janesta" <janesta at gmail.com>, "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>, "Vision
> 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 5:15 PM
>
>
> "A New York man spent his entire $140,000 life savings advertising his
> prediction that the world will end May 21."
>
> And when he wakes up on May 22nd?
>
> Hmmm.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> “Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already
> tomorrow in Australia.”
>
> - Charles M. Schulz
>
>
>
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