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Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
- rgrieselhuber 3mo ago"Just"
- senectus1 3mo agohttps://archive.md/CtsG6 https://archive.md/CtsG6
- opengrass 3mo agoWe must prevent our sun from doing this by eating less meat and paying more taxes.
- SkiFreeWin3 3mo agoGood point, clearly a solar system with too many liberals and no second amendment.
- gchamonlive 3mo agoWhile the sun has nothing to the with the rest, >500g a week of red meat is linked to intestinal cancer[1][2] and the billionaires should be paying more taxes if you asked me [1]https://www.wcrf.org/preventing-cancer/topics/meat-and-cancer/#:~:text=We%20recommend%20limiting,cuts%20of%20meat https://www.wcrf.org/preventing-cancer/topics/meat-and-cance... [2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308814621007032 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...
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- jmyeet 3mo agoIt's really the plastic straws that are the problem. That and avocado toast. And in 1-2 billion years when the Sun has heated up the Earth such that it's uninhabitable anyway (or 100 years at the rate we're going), we can at least feel comfort in all the shareholder value we've created along the way.
- senectus1 3mo agoits eating the cats, its eating the dogs, its eating the all the things...
- taneq 3mo agoWe must stop it, for the sake of the kittens and the puppies.
- owlninja 3mo agoI love stories like this. A subtle reminder how inconsequential our actions are on this planet in the grand, unplanned scheme. I look forward to reading HN with my breakfast each morning then going to a job that helps me raise a family and have fun on the weekends. I read stories of war, corruption, sadistic leaders, and great suffering. I've learned to appreciate the joys of life and have come to terms that we are not here for a long time - just for a good time. "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson
- im3w1l 3mo agoThere is a pretty significant chance that ours will be a starfaring civilization and that our children will reshape the very heavens.
- blightful 3mo agoVery doubtful when you really dig into what is involved. We probably will never make it out of the solar system. To another star is a pipe dream. We will wreck our planet soon enough and the likely outcome is our species will go extinct. This will probably happen in the next few thousand years or sooner.
- Bender 3mo agoI think the planet will do just fine without us but we will likely hit one of many great filters long before we colonize anything outside of Earth. The list of dumb things we do as a civilization are too long to list on HN. I am honestly very surprised we still exist and can still reproduce.
- none2585 3mo agoThis is my position as well - people say we need to do things for the planet. Planet will be just fine - it's us who will suffer and honestly it's for the best. Just end this shit
- yieldcrv 3mo agoMogged
- Herring 3mo agoThis is like your typical 2-story US house "eating" a baseball. Completely trivial occurrence, cosmologically speaking, unless you're specifically looking for it.
- dylan604 3mo agoTo me, the fact that we can look at it is what's neat here. People have been theorizing how things work/behave in the universe, and we are finally starting to make observations to test those theories.
- mproud 3mo agoIt just happened 1300 of years ago! (Reminds me of an episode of Flight of the Conchords.) But it is really interesting to read.
- gpm 3mo agoIt happened sometime between whenever we observed it and 2600 years ago. It's equally valid to say that light travels from there to here instantly (but takes twice as long on the outbound trip) or the reverse. Taking the average is just a convention. Hence why the articles title - which is based on when the light cone of the event reaches us - is actually the better way to think about it. At least there's no "depends how you feel like defining the speed of light today" in it.
- nephihaha 3mo agoIt depends if you consider 1300 years ago to be "just a moment" ago. Whatever we are seeing there is old news.
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