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28 Jun 2024 01:51:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: re Cassini  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 10 May 2017 02:46:14
Message: <5912b736$1@news.povray.org>
On 8-5-2017 16:58, clipka wrote:
> Am 08.05.2017 um 16:09 schrieb Bald Eagle:
>> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>>
>>>> "... However, due to the gradually increasing luminosity of the Sun, the oceans
>>>> of the Earth will have vaporized long before that time (about 2,100 million
>>>> years from now)."
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmm....
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You weren't planning to be around for it, were you? :)
>>
>>
>> I was just observing that there definitely seems to be SOMETHING that will warm
>> our planet....   What _could_ it be...?
>>
>> It certainly can't be that ridiculously huge thermonuclear furnace that's
>> 1,300,000 times the size of the Earth, that's for sure.
>>
>> Must be something _we_ did.   :|
>
> Yeah, that unprecedented sudden temperature increase over the last 100
> years or so, that's _totally_ just the sun.
>
> (facepalm)
>
> You do know that, say, 1000 years ago the sun had already been around,
> and in pretty much its current form, right?
>

I don't buy that. Given the rate of combustion, the sun cannot be more 
than a couple of centuries old. I got secret information telling me that 
the mysterious NASA space craft that landed a couple of days ago has 
something to do with the kindling of a new sun...

-- 
Thomas


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