Comments | shannonolippy: Here Comes The Sun?

shannonolippy

Here Comes The Sun?

Sep 12, 2009 23:26

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace..."

I watched a special on "The Universe" on The History Channel today that talked about what's going to happen to our galaxy when the sun goes into its death throes and super novas our planet (and our moon) out of exisistence in 5 million years or so.

It's fucking depressing.

I mean I ( Read more... )

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karnerblue September 13 2009, 04:00:10 UTC

I imagine there's probably a planet out there just like ours, or really close to it, and maybe that one's just being formed, so it'll have a long future ahead of it, longer than ours. Maybe we won't be here, but who's to say humans don't evolve somewhere else, or mountains don't rise, or sunsets don't look beautiful?

alisonpv September 13 2009, 04:34:48 UTC

It's like a phoenix, life will rise from the spacedust.

the universe will always go on.

eightydollsyell September 13 2009, 14:53:57 UTC

you quoted TMBG <3

ok not entirely the point but ya know :)

i think it is quite possible and normal to believe in a higher power and in evolution. god created the world in seven days, but who is to say that those days were actually 24 hour days rather than just 7 time periods. Life and religion shouldn't have to be all or nothing. there is so much that is not black and white that we even named a color "gray".

planesdragon September 14 2009, 04:22:38 UTC

i think it is quite possible and normal to believe in a higher power and in evolution. god created the world in seven days, but who is to say that those days were actually 24 hour days rather than just 7 time periods.

If you take is as a given that:

1: God is all-powerful.
2: God created Earth.
3: Earth looks like it's some 4.5 billion years old

Then you must agree to the simple possibility that, whenever God created the universe, He could make it look as old as He darn well wanted to.

(Unless, of course, you have some odd definition of "all powerful" that doesn't include the ability to dictate the quantity, location, and velocity of an infinite number of particles.)

eightydollsyell September 15 2009, 02:31:36 UTC

sure, he hid the fossils so that we would have oil and coal and the like to power our homes.

I really don't think if there is a god that he/she has the time to mettle in every life out there. if there is a god who is to say he/she didn't create the oooze, lean back, have a beer and watch the best reality show ever.

myystic September 13 2009, 16:47:33 UTC

You are, of course, assuming that the planet will still be beautiful 5 million years from now, because if we don't get our act together, it most certainly won't be.

planesdragon September 14 2009, 04:17:11 UTC

I watched a special on "The Universe" on The History Channel today that talked about what's going to happen to our galaxy when the sun goes into its death throes and super novas our planet (and our moon) out of exisistence in 5 million years or so.Billion. Not a million, five BILLION years from now. As in, a point in time as far out in the future as the sun's spark was in the past ( ... )