Our Inevitable End
That piece of supernova snack should last at least three House of Cards episodes.
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That piece of supernova snack should last at least three House of Cards episodes.
Heralding doomsday, ancient artifacts called “news papers” will make an inexplicable but brief resurgence.
maybe the solar interference of the imminent nova doomed the tablets first
Not only the newspapers are still a thing, but they’re still *not* on fire.
Anyway, by the time the Sun will more or less literally swallow the Earth, it will also be bright red, and not yellow anymore.
Oh, will I stop being such a nerd?
Yeah, the Sun isn’t nearly massive enough to go nova, either.
A super nova requires a binary pair of stars.
Also you don’t get a regular nova if you keep your star on a diet and don’t let it eat so much soda and planet pop.
That’s not true actually. If a star has sufficient start mass, it can go supernova on its own.
That said, our sun doesn’t have enough mass, and would turn into a red giant (125x diameter) first, which basically is what this comic depicts, then eject half its mass in a planetary nebula, and finally cool/shrink down in a white dwarf.
you expect the news to report using the correct terms? that’s funny!