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> maybe it's better off if we were completely oblivious. even that would be a slow death I suppose. Don’t think the Earth would just vanish instantly.
by robofanatic 1y ago
> maybe it's better off if we were completely oblivious.
even that would be a slow death I suppose. Don’t think the Earth would just vanish instantly.
- alabastervlog 1y agoI'd wager such an encounter is way more likely to result in any of: 1) the Earth being flung out of the Sun's orbit 2) planetary orbits becoming disrupted such that an encounter with another planet over the coming years or millennia becomes likely, 2.1) which could eventually have the same "flinging away from the Sun" effect, 2.2) or (unlikely, but possible) result in a collision 2.3) or result in the Earth being shredded into asteroids 2.4) or other planets suffering that fate and then showering the Earth with dangerously-large asteroids over a period of decades or centuries until it's nearly, or actually (think: outright crust liquefaction from impacts) lifeless. than the Earth actually getting swallowed up, by at least an order of magnitude. IOW, the most-likely "we're all dead" outcomes for us, from a close encounter with a massive rogue anything really, including a black hole, might take years and years to play out.
- zero_bias 1y agoSounds like a plot of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson