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It’s less about actions we could take and more about knowing we don’t have to worry about colliding with a star for the moment.

• Ancalagon 2y ago
  You probably wouldn’t want society to know we were about to collide with a star-sized mass, visible or not.
  • Swizec 2y ago
    > wouldn’t want society to know we were about to collide with a star-sized mass I may be misunderstanding the distances involved but wouldn't such a collision take centuries if not thousands of years to play out? For the most part it would just look like we had 2 suns, one of which gets a few millimeters bigger (to the naked eye) every year.
    • datavirtue 2y ago
      Yes, and the weather would ruin us long before any exciting cosmological collision took place.
      • LordGrignard 2y ago
        ah dammit I didn't think of that you're right it would be more of a disturbed orbit, weird ass days and nights but hey atleast there's a chance the scientists could have close up real life simulation of the three body problem