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Welp, we're about to enter one of the arms. It's been nice knowing you guys.
by yelnatz 10y ago
Welp, we're about to enter one of the arms.
It's been nice knowing you guys.
- internaut 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11905555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11905555
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> Summed over the entirety of its orbital path over the last 500 Myr, based on the new weighted symmetrical model, we find that the Sun has spent ∼60% of its time in the spiral arms This is a statistical observation. In any case, do you have a source for your assertion? http://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/187/pdf/043-052.pdf http://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/187/pdf/043-052.pdf
- yelnatz 10y agoMy prediction is based on their newly weighted symmetrical model given at figure 2. All previous extinction events are when the sun is in the galaxy arms, and we are currently entering one of them.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoPardon me. Could you point me to a source showing we are entering one of them?
- yelnatz 10y agohttp://i.imgur.com/u69Qd6Y.png http://i.imgur.com/u69Qd6Y.png Yellow dot is where we are right now, as you can see we are entering one of the black lines. 6 blue dots represent the known mass extinctions, they all lie on black lines. 5 orange dots represent proposed new mass extinction events proposed in the paper.