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<DIV>We have a billion years left! Yet you somehow make it seem like that is isn't much time at all.</DIV>
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<DIV>I evolved from dust, and I will devolve to dust. Probably long before we reach the end of that 1 billion year time frame, so I am not too concerned about the situation; Although it does seem to make recycling kind of pointless if the Earth is just going to end up getting sucked into the Sun anyway in a time frame the Cosmos considers the blink of an eye. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold</DIV>
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<DIV>PS Ted my spellchecker says your last name is "Miffed". I didn't even know that was a word. </DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 5/15/11, Ted <SPAN>Moffett</SPAN> <I><starbliss@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Ted <SPAN><SPAN>Moffett</SPAN></SPAN> <starbliss@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson's Favorite Dish<BR>To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: "Janesta" <janesta@gmail.com>, "Art Deco" <deco@moscow.com>, "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>, "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:23 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>In fact, we know already an approximate time period for when the world<BR>will end, or at least the Earth as a biosphere as we know it, based on<BR>the science of stellar evolution: these scientific doomsayers are<BR>correct, and we know it now.<BR><BR>Of course, homo sapiens may become extinct before the "end of the<BR>world," as have almost all species to evolve on Earth. But life is<BR>extremely tenacious and is highly likely to survive in some form for<BR>hundreds of millions of years. But only miraculous technology could<BR>prevent our sun's evolution from destroying the Earth. If homo<BR>sapiens survives, we have millions of years to migrate somewhere else<BR>before this happens. But the Earth as a life sustaining planet is in<BR>old age, with 3.5 or so billion years of life having passed and<BR>arguably not more than about 1 billion years left.<BR><BR>From brainiac mathematician/physicist John
Baez's (<BR><A href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html" target=_blank>http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html</A> ) "Brief History of the<BR>Universe" <A href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/timeline.html#future" target=_blank>http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/timeline.html#future</A> :<BR>"1.1 billion years from now - The Sun becomes 10% brighter than today.<BR>Runaway greenhouse effect may evaporate the Earth's oceans. If so, the<BR>water in upper atmosphere will photodissociate and the hydrogen will<BR>sail off into outer space."<BR><BR>The "Big Rip" theory in physics, if true, would mean the final end of<BR>our entire universe, but this is long after our sun has died.<BR>From American Institute of Physics website on "The Big Rip"<BR><A href="http://www.aip.org/png/2003/200.htm" target=_blank>http://www.aip.org/png/2003/200.htm</A> : "In the Big Rip model of<BR>cosmology, "phantom energy," a particular kind of dark energy<BR>supposedly fueling
the accelerating expansion of the universe, will,<BR>in the course of time, undo all the bound states prevalent in nature.<BR>In this way galaxies would lose their constituent stars. Later solar<BR>systems would fly apart. Later still even atoms would break apart<BR>since electrons would no longer be held by their associated nuclei."<BR>-----------------------------------------<BR>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR><BR>On 5/15/11, Donovan Arnold <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> This poor soul. His world will not be the same after May 21st. He will<BR>> discover he made a mathematical error and set a new date. Of course we all<BR>> know that even a broken clock can be right twice a day. Eventually, one of<BR>> these doomsayers will be correct. Ironically, we just won't know which one<BR>>
until just before we die.<BR>><BR>> Donovan Arnold<BR>><BR>> --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Tom Hansen <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>> From: Tom Hansen <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson's Favorite Dish<BR>> To: "Janesta" <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=janesta@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:janesta@gmail.com">janesta@gmail.com</A>>, "Art Deco" <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=deco@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>>, "Vision<BR>> 2020" <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com"
ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 5:15 PM<BR>><BR>><BR>> "A New York man spent his entire $140,000 life savings advertising his<BR>> prediction that the world will end May 21."<BR>><BR>> And when he wakes up on May 22nd?<BR>><BR>> Hmmm.<BR>><BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>><BR>> “Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already<BR>> tomorrow in Australia.”<BR>><BR>> - Charles M. Schulz<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>