Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems

On 13/10/2024 21:29, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:54:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

"It is Earth year 2213—but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not
since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun
the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but
this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second
trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess
at where we might find a new home."

 There's a massive difference in mass between the size of a future nova
and a future supernova - and our Sun is barely big enough for a nova
future and far below that of a supernova so I tend to look askance at
any author who describes the future Sun in that way.
 In any case short of Lex Luthor or similar villain creating a devise
to detonate the sun, that particular probably is 4-5 billion years out
which is rather longer than I expect to be here to have that problem
to face.

As I said on the page, I think I heard that
in about one billion years, the Sun will be
slightly hotter, and Earth's water will all
be evaporated in the atmosphere.
The water that we're made of.