Heads up " The end of the Solar system" Tonight

[Timebandit]

 

BBC Two at 11.15 this evening 

The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular end in around 8 billion years time.

Hope you enjoy 

[Dinglem]

Hope we get a clear night before then, as wouldn't mind getting the scope out once more.

[darknight]

must remember to buy a lunt for this

[Alan White]

Phew, thought that was 'end of the solar system, tonight'!
Had me worried for a minute, I did not want to miss the weekend or anything.

iPlayer me thinks as its a school night.

[Paz]

Agreed, it would be really inconvenient if the solar system ended tonight, I've got work to do!

[Timebandit]

3 hours ago, Dinglem said:

Hope we get a clear night before then, as wouldn't mind getting the scope out once more.

 

With around 8 billion years to go , I am sure we will get a clear night for you before then ?

[Alien 13]

6 minutes ago, Timebandit said:

 

With around 8 billion years to go , I am sure we will get a clear night for you before then ?

I am sure a CME will wipe us out way before then..

Alan

[Luna-tic]

5 hours ago, Timebandit said:

 

BBC Two at 11.15 this evening 

The story of how our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular end in around 8 billion years time.

 

Already planning my move to Titan, for a better view.

[Alien 13]

5 minutes ago, Luna-tic said:

Already planning my move to Titan, for a better view.

Europa might be better we have friends there..

Alan

[Luna-tic]

1 hour ago, Alien 13 said:

Europa might be better we have friends there..

Alan

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA.  ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE........ Quote from 2010: The Year We Make Contact.  Just heeding the warning.

Titan has an atmosphere; by the time the solar system dies, we'll probably have terraformed it. It's also further out, so we'd be safer, for a little while, and Saturn's rings would be a nice backdrop for the Solar implosion.

[Timebandit]

37 minutes ago, Luna-tic said:

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA.  ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE........ Quote from 2010: The Year We Make Contact.  Just heeding the warning.

Titan has an atmosphere; by the time the solar system dies, we'll probably have terraformed it. It's also further out, so we'd be safer, for a little while, and Saturn's rings would be a nice backdrop for the Solar implosion.

 

Looks like Saturn's rings may not be there as the sun expands to a giant red star. Time to build a super size space station I think as a life boat option☺ 

[Luna-tic]

1 hour ago, Timebandit said:

 

Looks like Saturn's rings may not be there as the sun expands to a giant red star. Time to build a super size space station I think as a life boat option☺ 

The projections I've read say that the Sun will expand past Earth's orbit, but not as far as Mars. It will shuck off clouds of gas and then shrink to a white dwarf, with Mars as the innermost surviving planet. I figure that the vicinity of Saturn might be marginally safe to watch from.

I'm hoping the Enterprise-D will drop by in a Borg-induced time warp and help me launch my warp ship, which I will construct from old Harley-Davidson parts and Estes model rockets.

[darknight]

i would say this is off topic BUT, think we past that a while ago, does anyone else find it weird that in the film, Europa was cited as a life or important planet, only now are we finding out that it just might be...................woooooooooo