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i think for the survival of mankind it would be better to leave the earth behind and go out in a mass exodus of starships.
Originally posted by Xenographer
i think for the survival of mankind it would be better to leave the earth behind and go out in a mass exodus of starships.
In one of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Trilogy books (I forget which), the government of this one planet came up with a story like this, and loaded everyone into three massive starships... one of them held all the people that weren't really necessary, and were causing all of the planet's overpopulation problems; that shuttle was the first to lift off.
The others never left; everyone just disembarked once the undesirables were gone, and went about their business.
I like this idea a lot
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
with the size of the blackhole and stars going into it can be comparable to comets and other debris hitting the sun. how much of a difference does it make? not much...
Originally posted by kinglizard
Originally posted by ShadowSephiroth
When will this black hole get serious?
Probably not for Billions of years. But it's inevitable.
Originally posted by mtsmth
so there really is no "we" factor in this, us and the human species will long be gone.
Originally posted by kinglizard
Where do you think will we be?
Originally posted by kinglizard
The thing is it may take a billion years to get the Earth out of this Galaxy so we should start thinking about this now. As the black hole consumes the stars around it I would assume it would become larger and produce more gravity, thereby speeding up its rate of consumption. So the conveyer belt would speed up with time until it had consumed everything in our Galaxy.
Originally posted by kinglizard
The thing is it may take a billion years to get the Earth out of this Galaxy so we should start thinking about this now. As the black hole consumes the stars around it I would assume it would become larger and produce more gravity, thereby speeding up its rate of consumption. So the conveyer belt would speed up with time until it had consumed everything in our Galaxy.
Originally posted by Thorfinn Skullsplitter
And this here is one of humanities biggest problems. Arrogant meddling. Instead of trying to live in accord with the things around us we are constantly trying to control and conform things to our liking.