• There is not much time left for life on this planet

    From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 22 22:18:55 2022
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Popping Mad on Sun Jan 23 07:01:16 2022
    On 23.1.2022. 4:18, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    There will be on some other part of the Universe (probably already it is).

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 23 12:37:29 2022
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    Much more likely is that the habitability of the earth ends earlier
    due to the evolution of the sun. For humans and other multicellulars
    that may be as soon as ~1.3 billion years from now, for extremophiles
    ~2 billion years: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023302

    But extinction of the biosphere may be much faster because we humans
    are fucking the planet: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-strong-evidence-sixth-mass-extinction.html

    As is to be expected on the basis of the principle of mediocrity and
    the given
    (1) that we are the first technological species to evolve on the Earth
    and
    (2) we are early in our technological evolution, our lifetime is ~500
    years or less:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000271

    where a technological species is defined as "a biological species that
    has developed electronic devices and has the capacity to significantly
    affect their planetary environment. By this definition humans have
    qualified for ~100 years."

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Pandora on Sun Jan 23 15:23:13 2022
    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this.

    Much more likely is that the habitability of the earth ends earlier
    due to the evolution of the sun. For humans and other multicellulars
    that may be as soon as ~1.3 billion years from now, for extremophiles
    ~2 billion years: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023302

    But extinction of the biosphere may be much faster because we humans
    are fucking the planet: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-strong-evidence-sixth-mass-extinction.html

    As is to be expected on the basis of the principle of mediocrity and
    the given
    (1) that we are the first technological species to evolve on the Earth
    and
    (2) we are early in our technological evolution, our lifetime is ~500
    years or less:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000271

    where a technological species is defined as "a biological species that
    has developed electronic devices and has the capacity to significantly
    affect their planetary environment. By this definition humans have
    qualified for ~100 years."

    --
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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr on Sun Jan 23 16:44:10 2022
    On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:23:13 +0100, Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this.

    Sure, there is gravitational interaction on a scale that deforms the
    galaxies and seems quite dramatic from a distance: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150201.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180607.html

    The Milky Way has probably had several of such collisions in the past
    4.5 billion years, but "Stars within a galaxy are very sparsely
    distributed, being separated by distances of the order of 10 light
    years. In a scale model in which stars are represented by pinheads,
    these would be about 50 km apart and the solar system (out to the
    orbit of Pluto) would have a radius of 5m." (Rindler, 2006, p.350) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/relativity-9780198567325

    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Pandora on Sun Jan 23 17:02:14 2022
    On 23.1.2022. 16:44, Pandora wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:23:13 +0100, Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this.

    Sure, there is gravitational interaction on a scale that deforms the
    galaxies and seems quite dramatic from a distance: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150201.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180607.html

    The Milky Way has probably had several of such collisions in the past
    4.5 billion years, but "Stars within a galaxy are very sparsely
    distributed, being separated by distances of the order of 10 light
    years. In a scale model in which stars are represented by pinheads,
    these would be about 50 km apart and the solar system (out to the
    orbit of Pluto) would have a radius of 5m." (Rindler, 2006, p.350) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/relativity-9780198567325

    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.

    Ok, you may be right.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Sun Jan 23 17:04:51 2022
    On 23.1.2022. 17:02, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 16:44, Pandora wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:23:13 +0100, Mario Petrinovic
    <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>>> wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5 >>>>> billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

            You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they >>> deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this.

    Sure, there is gravitational interaction on a scale that deforms the
    galaxies and seems quite dramatic from a distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150201.html
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180607.html

    The Milky Way has probably had several of such collisions in the past
    4.5 billion years, but "Stars within a galaxy are very sparsely
    distributed, being separated by distances of the order of 10 light
    years. In a scale model in which stars are represented by pinheads,
    these would be about 50 km apart and the solar system (out to the
    orbit of Pluto) would have a radius of 5m." (Rindler, 2006, p.350)
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/relativity-9780198567325

    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.

            Ok, you may be right.

    Gee, it is so bitter admitting that you may be wrong, but it must be
    done, lol.

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  • From erik simpson@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Sun Jan 23 09:11:24 2022
    On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 8:04:53 AM UTC-8, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 17:02, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 16:44, Pandora wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:23:13 +0100, Mario Petrinovic
    <mario.pe...@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rai...@colition.gov> >>>> wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5 >>>>> billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each >>>> other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they
    deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this.

    Sure, there is gravitational interaction on a scale that deforms the
    galaxies and seems quite dramatic from a distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150201.html
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180607.html

    The Milky Way has probably had several of such collisions in the past
    4.5 billion years, but "Stars within a galaxy are very sparsely
    distributed, being separated by distances of the order of 10 light
    years. In a scale model in which stars are represented by pinheads,
    these would be about 50 km apart and the solar system (out to the
    orbit of Pluto) would have a radius of 5m." (Rindler, 2006, p.350)
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/relativity-9780198567325

    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.

    Ok, you may be right.
    Gee, it is so bitter admitting that you may be wrong, but it must be
    done, lol.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-e...@googlegroups.com

    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.

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  • From ootiib@hot.ee@21:1/5 to Popping Mad on Mon Jan 24 09:50:13 2022
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely advanced farther above human than human is above amoeba.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to oot...@hot.ee on Mon Jan 24 19:04:21 2022
    On 24.1.2022. 18:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely advanced farther above human than human is above amoeba.

    Yes, but in what way do you think human is advanced more than amoeba?
    Or, Corona virus, for example?

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  • From Glenn@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Mon Jan 24 12:46:59 2022
    On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 10:11:25 AM UTC-7, erik simpson wrote:
    On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 8:04:53 AM UTC-8, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 17:02, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 16:44, Pandora wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:23:13 +0100, Mario Petrinovic
    <mario.pe...@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 23.1.2022. 12:37, Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rai...@colition.gov> >>>> wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5 >>>>> billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet. >>>>
    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each >>>> other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    You didn't understand this bit. When galaxies collide they
    deform each
    other completely, the gravity deforms. Nothing alive can survive this. >>
    Sure, there is gravitational interaction on a scale that deforms the
    galaxies and seems quite dramatic from a distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150201.html
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180607.html

    The Milky Way has probably had several of such collisions in the past
    4.5 billion years, but "Stars within a galaxy are very sparsely
    distributed, being separated by distances of the order of 10 light
    years. In a scale model in which stars are represented by pinheads,
    these would be about 50 km apart and the solar system (out to the
    orbit of Pluto) would have a radius of 5m." (Rindler, 2006, p.350)
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/relativity-9780198567325

    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.

    Ok, you may be right.
    Gee, it is so bitter admitting that you may be wrong, but it must be
    done, lol.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-e...@googlegroups.com
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.

    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.

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  • From Trolidan7@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Mon Jan 24 13:20:44 2022
    On 1/24/22 10:04 AM, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 24.1.2022. 18:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely
    advanced
    farther above human than human is above amoeba.

            Yes, but in what way do you think human is advanced more than amoeba? Or, Corona virus, for example?

    It is lower in entropy.

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 24 23:30:18 2022
    On 24.1.2022. 22:20, Trolidan7 wrote:
    On 1/24/22 10:04 AM, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 24.1.2022. 18:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely
    advanced
    farther above human than human is above amoeba.

             Yes, but in what way do you think human is advanced more than
    amoeba? Or, Corona virus, for example?

    It is lower in entropy.

    Thanks.
    Those things are pretty complicated, and for sure there are some other
    characteristics involved, the word "advanced" in that sense doesn't mean
    that the organism which has higher entropy is more "bullet proof", I guess.

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  • From Trolidous@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Mon Jan 24 23:05:42 2022
    Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 24.1.2022. 22:20, Trolidan7 wrote:
    On 1/24/22 10:04 AM, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 24.1.2022. 18:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5 >>>>> billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely
    advanced
    farther above human than human is above amoeba.

             Yes, but in what way do you think human is advanced more >>> than amoeba? Or, Corona virus, for example?

    It is lower in entropy.

            Thanks.
            Those things are pretty complicated, and for sure there are some other characteristics involved, the word "advanced" in that sense doesn't mean that the organism which has higher entropy is more "bullet proof", I guess.

    Well, you know, if you 'flog a dead horse' you
    can not necessarily kill it. That is because it
    is already dead.

    Now if you cremulate it's bones and ground the
    horse into hamburger or make glue from it then
    there is still some low entropy in the dead horse.
    There may thus be nothing left to fossilize into
    a rock formation simulating the bones of a horse

    Carnivores themselves fundamentally obtain power
    through the two forms of evil from which entropy
    is increased. It is based upon 'conservation of
    energy'. The nervous systems of carnivores often
    at most think of killing other animals as a form
    of play. It benefits them to not care when they
    kill other animals because from such activities
    they obtain energy from the other dead animals
    to build and maintain their own body's activities.

    Over all, however, there is a significant entropy
    increase when plants or animals are killed.

    This is based upon the statistical thermodynamic
    or information theory definition of entropy. In
    essence, entropy is defined in terms of a 'normalized
    function' or in other words, the probability of a
    state divided by all possible states.

    In common terms:

    high entropy = evil
    low entropy = good

    Under some circumstances, entropy can be reduced
    through energy inputs.

    Entropy is generally increased through conservation
    of energy or through randomness.

    This is basically statistical thermodynamics. The
    heat flow formulations of thermodynamics are generally
    simpler.

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  • From Ruben Safir@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Tue Jan 25 17:03:28 2022
    Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 4:18, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    There will be on some other part of the Universe (probably already it is).


    Not likely. People who believe there is likely life on other planets misunderstnad how violent the universe is. The odds that a planet can
    find a quiet corner in the universe to promote life over 4 billion years
    is much longer odds than the total number of possible planets there are.

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  • From ootiib@hot.ee@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Tue Jan 25 10:08:40 2022
    On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 20:04:21 UTC+2, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 24.1.2022. 18:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 05:20:02 UTC+2, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely advanced farther above human than human is above amoeba.

    Yes, but in what way do you think human is advanced more than amoeba?
    Or, Corona virus, for example?

    I meant in way of capability to perform different activities.

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  • From Trolidous@21:1/5 to Pandora on Tue Jan 25 13:10:03 2022
    Pandora wrote:
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:18:55 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html

    Much more likely is that the habitability of the earth ends earlier
    due to the evolution of the sun. For humans and other multicellulars
    that may be as soon as ~1.3 billion years from now, for extremophiles
    ~2 billion years: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023302

    But extinction of the biosphere may be much faster because we humans
    are fucking the planet: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-strong-evidence-sixth-mass-extinction.html

    As is to be expected on the basis of the principle of mediocrity and
    the given
    (1) that we are the first technological species to evolve on the Earth
    and
    (2) we are early in our technological evolution, our lifetime is ~500
    years or less:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550417000271

    where a technological species is defined as "a biological species that
    has developed electronic devices and has the capacity to significantly
    affect their planetary environment. By this definition humans have
    qualified for ~100 years."

    Maybe something like mankind could escape to Gliese 710.

    It msy be only about .17 light years from the Sun about
    1.3 million years in the future.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_710

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to Glenn on Tue Jan 25 21:33:02 2022
    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way
    that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous
    collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since
    large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there
    is enough to destroy life on this planet.

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to oot...@hot.ee on Tue Jan 25 21:34:15 2022
    On 1/24/22 12:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely advanced farther above human than human is above amoeba.


    no it won't. Life doesn't advance. It just evolves to changing conditions.

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to Pandora on Tue Jan 25 21:27:59 2022
    On 1/23/22 06:37, Pandora wrote:
    Dramatic as it may sound "colliding" galaxies pass right through each
    other:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190325.html


    No - it is not that simple. They don't pass through each other without consequence.

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to Pandora on Tue Jan 25 21:38:30 2022
    On 1/23/22 06:37, Pandora wrote:
    But extinction of the biosphere may be much faster because we humans
    are fucking the planet:


    No - we are a bigger threat to ourselves than the biosphere. We would
    go excint before we neded all life on the planet.

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Tue Jan 25 21:29:59 2022
    On 1/23/22 12:11, erik simpson wrote:
    The chances of any two stars colliding during such a galaxy
    "collision" are very small indeed and most of them will pass each
    other undisturbed.


    but that is not the problem

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Popping Mad on Wed Jan 26 05:47:10 2022
    On 26.1.2022. 3:34, Popping Mad wrote:
    On 1/24/22 12:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely advanced >> farther above human than human is above amoeba.


    no it won't. Life doesn't advance. It just evolves to changing conditions.

    I have the same view. It doesn't have to be that simple, it can advance somehow, yet, not enough, and the "advancement" definitely isn't
    the (main) "force", we, generally, just adjust.
    Though all this is pretty complicated. In any way, I don't think that
    we will ever have enough of whatever-it-needs-to-be to survive.
    The other thing is, it is nowhere written that we have to survive, it
    is not us that is the center of the Universe, Universe doesn't exist
    because of us.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-evolution@googlegroups.com

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Ruben Safir on Wed Jan 26 05:35:38 2022
    On 25.1.2022. 18:03, Ruben Safir wrote:
    Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 4:18, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    There will be on some other part of the Universe (probably already it is).


    Not likely. People who believe there is likely life on other planets misunderstnad how violent the universe is. The odds that a planet can
    find a quiet corner in the universe to promote life over 4 billion years
    is much longer odds than the total number of possible planets there are.

    Yes, I know how violent the Universe is. Yet, we have found ourselves
    in a quieter part of the Universe. This is why I do think that another
    life can be quite close to us. It looks like life can form pretty easy.
    I mean, we have amino-acids on some moons in our own solar system.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-evolution@googlegroups.com

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Mario Petrinovic on Wed Jan 26 05:53:46 2022
    On 26.1.2022. 5:47, Mario Petrinovic wrote:
    On 26.1.2022. 3:34, Popping Mad wrote:
    On 1/24/22 12:50, oot...@hot.ee wrote:
    If our life survives another 4.5 billions years then it is likely
    advanced
    farther above human than human is above amoeba.


    no it won't.  Life doesn't advance.  It just evolves to changing
    conditions.

            I have the same view. It doesn't have to be that simple, it can
    advance somehow, yet, not enough, and the "advancement" definitely isn't
    the (main) "force", we, generally, just adjust.
            Though all this is pretty complicated. In any way, I don't think that we will ever have enough of whatever-it-needs-to-be to survive.
            The other thing is, it is nowhere written that we have to survive, it is not us that is the center of the Universe, Universe
    doesn't exist because of us.

    I mean, I am 60, I'll die soon, who cares? We all will "go extinct"
    when we die, :) . The only one who cares is Pope, who just wants to have
    a bigger herd of people who worship him, nothing else. Big deal.
    Insignificant in the Universe, and significant only to Pope. It even
    isn't significant to me, lol.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-evolution@googlegroups.com

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 26 12:37:58 2022
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way
    that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since
    large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there
    is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html

    Ever so many opportunities for new solar systems with rocky planets in
    the habitable zone.

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to mrbrklyn@panix.com on Wed Jan 26 12:22:07 2022
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:03:28 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
    On 23.1.2022. 4:18, Popping Mad wrote:
    The Andeomoda and Milkway collision is expected to happen within 4.5
    billion years, not much time on the scale of life on this planet.

    There will be on some other part of the Universe (probably already it is).


    Not likely. People who believe there is likely life on other planets >misunderstnad how violent the universe is. The odds that a planet can
    find a quiet corner in the universe to promote life over 4 billion years
    is much longer odds than the total number of possible planets there are.

    You don't think Earth is a violent place?

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  • From Ruben Safir@21:1/5 to Pandora on Wed Jan 26 20:29:33 2022
    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way
    that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there
    is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other
    basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    This planet has beat astrnomical odds for being in such a docile state
    and there is no way it will surive with life intact the merger of the 3 galexies.


    Ever so many opportunities for new solar systems with rocky planets in
    the habitable zone.

    There is zero chance of there being any other planets like earth NOW...anywhere... because the universe is rocked with violence.

    One supernova would had ended life on earth. In fact, it might well had
    been a supernova that supplied the solar system with enoughmaterial for
    life to start here. Another would had ended it.

    You can't just count stars and planets to determin the odds of life
    developing. You need to account for space climate and the Solar system,
    in that regard, is unique.

    The Earth is about 4.3 billion years old and life has existed for about
    3.4 billion of which it was only about half a billion since the Cambrian explosion.

    If during any time in the half billion years we had experienced an
    common and routine happenstance in the local area, life would had
    ended... flat out.

    Just do the math on how many pulsars, black holes, super novas etc etc
    etc happen and you will see that life is a huge long shot, and advanced
    life even less so.

    68 million years ago life was completely transformed by a minor meter
    blow...

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  • From Mario Petrinovic@21:1/5 to Ruben Safir on Wed Jan 26 22:36:02 2022
    On 26.1.2022. 21:29, Ruben Safir wrote:
    68 million years ago life was completely transformed by a minor meter
    blow...

    Hm, it'll be extremely interesting if this event was re-dated. The
    last time I checked it was 66 mya.

    --
    https://groups.google.com/g/human-evolution
    human-evolution@googlegroups.com

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to mrbrklyn@panix.com on Thu Jan 27 10:53:02 2022
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>>collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there >>>is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other
    basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr on Thu Jan 27 10:50:27 2022
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:36:02 +0100, Mario Petrinovic <mario.petrinovic1@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:

    On 26.1.2022. 21:29, Ruben Safir wrote:
    68 million years ago life was completely transformed by a minor meter
    blow...

    Hm, it'll be extremely interesting if this event was re-dated. The
    last time I checked it was 66 mya.

    That's correct, see:
    https://stratigraphy.org/chart

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  • From rtr@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 27 18:48:00 2022
    I don't think you comprehend how much time 4.5 billion years is.

    --
    Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
    --
    gemini://rtr.kalayaan.xyz

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to Pandora on Thu Jan 27 08:10:16 2022
    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>> that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous
    collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>> large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there >>>> is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other
    basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500 light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 10 22:08:29 2022
    On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:16 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>>> wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>>> that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>>>> collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>>> large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there >>>>> is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other
    basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...


    An astronomy thread is SBP? Fascinating.

    For those concerned about colliding stars during galactic collisions,
    here's some factoids to assuage yourself:

    <https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-can-stars-get-to-each-other-in-galaxy-cores#:~:text=The%20average%20stellar%20density%20here,5%20light%2Dyears%20between%20stars.>

    <https://tinyurl.com/p2zcyhrc>
    **************************************
    The average stellar density here in the galactic disk is one star
    every 19 cubic parsecs, or about 5 light-years between stars. *************************************

    Even in the Milky Way's more dense central core, stars are still
    separated on average about 860 AU apart, over five times farther than
    Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any
    stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    And if stellar collisions worried you, there's still plenty to worry
    about. The Milky Way and Andromeda are about the same mass. This
    means when they merge, they will almost certainly tear apart their
    spiral structures, fling many stars into intergalactic space, compress
    their interstellar gas to create new stars, and eventually form one
    elliptical galaxy, Milkdromeda. Here's a video of one plausible
    simulation:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU>

    And if that worries you, there's still plenty more to worry about. The
    Large Magellanic Cloud is scheduled to merge with the Milky Way even
    sooner, in less than 3 billion years. When it does, the two
    supermassive black holes in the centers of each galaxy will merge and
    form an active galactic nucleus aka quasar, which make supernovae look
    like farts in a hurricane by comparison. Any nearby stellar systems,
    or those caught in its twin polar jets, will be vaporized.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7S2j4kbzo>

    And if that worries you, I shouldn't mention the eventual expansion of
    the Sun starting about a half-billion years from now, which will
    definitely end any debate about global warming.

    Sleep well.

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 11 09:52:24 2022
    On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:08:29 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:16 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>>>> wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>>>> that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>>>>> collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>>>> large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there >>>>>> is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be >>>>> seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other >>>> basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...


    An astronomy thread is SBP? Fascinating.

    For those concerned about colliding stars during galactic collisions,
    here's some factoids to assuage yourself:

    <https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-can-stars-get-to-each-other-in-galaxy-cores#:~:text=The%20average%20stellar%20density%20here,5%20light%2Dyears%20between%20stars.>

    <https://tinyurl.com/p2zcyhrc>
    **************************************
    The average stellar density here in the galactic disk is one star
    every 19 cubic parsecs, or about 5 light-years between stars. >*************************************

    Even in the Milky Way's more dense central core, stars are still
    separated on average about 860 AU apart, over five times farther than
    Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any
    stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    And if stellar collisions worried you, there's still plenty to worry
    about. The Milky Way and Andromeda are about the same mass. This
    means when they merge, they will almost certainly tear apart their
    spiral structures, fling many stars into intergalactic space, compress
    their interstellar gas to create new stars, and eventually form one >elliptical galaxy, Milkdromeda. Here's a video of one plausible
    simulation:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU>

    And if that worries you, there's still plenty more to worry about. The
    Large Magellanic Cloud is scheduled to merge with the Milky Way even
    sooner, in less than 3 billion years. When it does, the two
    supermassive black holes in the centers of each galaxy will merge and
    form an active galactic nucleus aka quasar, which make supernovae look
    like farts in a hurricane by comparison. Any nearby stellar systems,
    or those caught in its twin polar jets, will be vaporized.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7S2j4kbzo>

    And if that worries you, I shouldn't mention the eventual expansion of
    the Sun starting about a half-billion years from now, which will
    definitely end any debate about global warming.

    Sleep well.

    By the time that happens we're well packaged: <https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?4959466/Ocean-plastic-pollution-to-quadruple-by-2050-pushing-more-areas-to-exceed-ecologically-dangerous-threshold-of-microplastic-concentration>

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 11 22:31:45 2022
    On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:52:24 +0100, Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:08:29 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:16 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>wrote:

    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>>>>> that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>>>>>> collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>>>>> large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there
    is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be >>>>>> seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other >>>>> basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...


    An astronomy thread is SBP? Fascinating.

    For those concerned about colliding stars during galactic collisions, >>here's some factoids to assuage yourself:
    <https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-can-stars-get-to-each-other-in-galaxy-cores#:~:text=The%20average%20stellar%20density%20here,5%20light%2Dyears%20between%20stars.>

    <https://tinyurl.com/p2zcyhrc>
    **************************************
    The average stellar density here in the galactic disk is one star
    every 19 cubic parsecs, or about 5 light-years between stars. >>*************************************

    Even in the Milky Way's more dense central core, stars are still
    separated on average about 860 AU apart, over five times farther than >>Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any >>stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    And if stellar collisions worried you, there's still plenty to worry
    about. The Milky Way and Andromeda are about the same mass. This
    means when they merge, they will almost certainly tear apart their
    spiral structures, fling many stars into intergalactic space, compress >>their interstellar gas to create new stars, and eventually form one >>elliptical galaxy, Milkdromeda. Here's a video of one plausible >>simulation:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU>

    And if that worries you, there's still plenty more to worry about. The >>Large Magellanic Cloud is scheduled to merge with the Milky Way even >>sooner, in less than 3 billion years. When it does, the two
    supermassive black holes in the centers of each galaxy will merge and
    form an active galactic nucleus aka quasar, which make supernovae look
    like farts in a hurricane by comparison. Any nearby stellar systems,
    or those caught in its twin polar jets, will be vaporized.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7S2j4kbzo>

    And if that worries you, I shouldn't mention the eventual expansion of
    the Sun starting about a half-billion years from now, which will
    definitely end any debate about global warming.

    Sleep well.

    By the time that happens we're well packaged: ><https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?4959466/Ocean-plastic-pollution-to-quadruple-by-2050-pushing-more-areas-to-exceed-ecologically-dangerous-threshold-of-microplastic-concentration>


    Perhaps all the microplastics animals ingest will help future
    paleontologists precisely date fossils.

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 12 20:55:52 2022
    On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:31:45 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps all the microplastics animals ingest will help future
    paleontologists precisely date fossils.

    See Corcoran et al. (2014): https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/24/6/article/i1052-5173-24-6-4.htm

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  • From Trolidan7@21:1/5 to jillery on Sun Feb 13 03:21:46 2022
    On 2/10/22 7:08 PM, jillery wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:16 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> wrote:

    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad
    <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does,
    admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are
    bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to)
    will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is
    no way
    that life can survive this collision. There might have been
    previous
    collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion
    years since
    large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that
    right there
    is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be
    seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and
    other
    basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...


    An astronomy thread is SBP? Fascinating.

    For those concerned about colliding stars during galactic collisions,
    here's some factoids to assuage yourself:


    <https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-can-stars-get-to-each-other-in-galaxy-cores#:~:text=The%20average%20stellar%20density%20here,5%20light%2Dyears%20between%20stars.>

    <https://tinyurl.com/p2zcyhrc>
    **************************************
    The average stellar density here in the galactic disk is one star
    every 19 cubic parsecs, or about 5 light-years between stars. *************************************

    Even in the Milky Way's more dense central core, stars are still
    separated on average about 860 AU apart, over five times farther than Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any
    stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    And if stellar collisions worried you, there's still plenty to worry
    about. The Milky Way and Andromeda are about the same mass. This
    means when they merge, they will almost certainly tear apart their
    spiral structures, fling many stars into intergalactic space, compress
    their interstellar gas to create new stars, and eventually form one elliptical galaxy, Milkdromeda. Here's a video of one plausible
    simulation:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU>

    And if that worries you, there's still plenty more to worry about. The
    Large Magellanic Cloud is scheduled to merge with the Milky Way even
    sooner, in less than 3 billion years. When it does, the two
    supermassive black holes in the centers of each galaxy will merge and
    form an active galactic nucleus aka quasar, which make supernovae look
    like farts in a hurricane by comparison. Any nearby stellar systems,
    or those caught in its twin polar jets, will be vaporized.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7S2j4kbzo>

    And if that worries you, I shouldn't mention the eventual expansion of
    the Sun starting about a half-billion years from now, which will
    definitely end any debate about global warming.

    Sleep well.

    Watch out!

    A galactic collision fragment may be less than 15 light years away!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapteyn%27s_Star

    If the Wikipedia article is correct concerning
    Omega Centauri and that it is not just a run of
    the mill globular cluster but it is in fact the
    remnant of a prior galactic collision and merger
    then galactic collisions may not just be something
    in the distant future.

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 15 09:29:55 2022
    On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:55:52 +0100, Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:31:45 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps all the microplastics animals ingest will help future >>paleontologists precisely date fossils.

    See Corcoran et al. (2014): >https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/24/6/article/i1052-5173-24-6-4.htm


    Great minds think alike.

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  • From Pandora@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 17 10:58:00 2022
    On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:29:55 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:55:52 +0100, Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:31:45 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Perhaps all the microplastics animals ingest will help future >>>paleontologists precisely date fossils.

    See Corcoran et al. (2014): >>https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/24/6/article/i1052-5173-24-6-4.htm


    Great minds think alike.

    But is it planetary intelligence?

    https://phys.org/news/2022-02-planet-mind.html

    https://doi.org/10.1017/S147355042100029X

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  • From Popping Mad@21:1/5 to jillery on Mon Feb 21 09:09:51 2022
    On 2/10/22 22:08, jillery wrote:
    over five times farther than
    Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any
    stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    Voyerger is not a star

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  • From jillery@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 22 08:01:37 2022
    On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:09:51 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    Voyerger is not a star


    That's ok, neither are you.

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  • From Trolidous@21:1/5 to jillery on Mon Feb 28 14:04:05 2022
    jillery wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:10:16 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov>
    wrote:

    On 1/27/22 04:53, Pandora wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:29:33 -0000 (UTC), Ruben Safir
    <mrbrklyn@panix.com> wrote:

    Pandora <pandora@knoware.nl> wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:02 -0500, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> >>>>> wrote:

    On 1/24/22 15:46, Glenn wrote:
    Good job, Mario. Being wrong is something everybody does, admitting when it happens
    is rarer. Galaxies get big from collisions, and while many are bigger than the Milky Way, it's
    not a small galaxy. Other issues (some we've contributed to) will do us in sooner anyway.
    You clearly don't even know what being wrong means.


    I've looks at a few recent models of the collision and there is no way >>>>>> that life can survive this collision. There might have been previous >>>>>> collision but not on this scale and not in the last billion years since >>>>>> large scale multicelluar orangisms have developed.

    Firs tof all, it will set off a chain of supernovas and that right there >>>>>> is enough to destroy life on this planet.

    On the contrary, what you get is a burst of star formation, as can be >>>>> seen in the Antennae Galaxies:

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170428.html

    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201203.html


    Run the numbers yourself. You will get dozens of super novas and other >>>> basts which will sterialize every life force in an entire sector.

    There have been numerous supernovas in our galaxy within the 3.5 - 4
    billion years of life on this planet, as witnessed by the many
    supernova remnants. One observed as recently as 1054 at a mere 6500
    light-years distance:
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211224.html

    Yet we're still here.

    https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

    it needs to be balanced...


    An astronomy thread is SBP? Fascinating.

    For those concerned about colliding stars during galactic collisions,
    here's some factoids to assuage yourself:

    <https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-can-stars-get-to-each-other-in-galaxy-cores#:~:text=The%20average%20stellar%20density%20here,5%20light%2Dyears%20between%20stars.>

    <https://tinyurl.com/p2zcyhrc>
    **************************************
    The average stellar density here in the galactic disk is one star
    every 19 cubic parsecs, or about 5 light-years between stars. *************************************

    Even in the Milky Way's more dense central core, stars are still
    separated on average about 860 AU apart, over five times farther than
    Voyager I has traveled beyond the Sun. So it's extremely unlikely any
    stars collide during any galactic mergers.

    And if stellar collisions worried you, there's still plenty to worry
    about. The Milky Way and Andromeda are about the same mass. This
    means when they merge, they will almost certainly tear apart their
    spiral structures, fling many stars into intergalactic space, compress
    their interstellar gas to create new stars, and eventually form one elliptical galaxy, Milkdromeda. Here's a video of one plausible
    simulation:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU>

    And if that worries you, there's still plenty more to worry about. The
    Large Magellanic Cloud is scheduled to merge with the Milky Way even
    sooner, in less than 3 billion years. When it does, the two
    supermassive black holes in the centers of each galaxy will merge and
    form an active galactic nucleus aka quasar, which make supernovae look
    like farts in a hurricane by comparison. Any nearby stellar systems,
    or those caught in its twin polar jets, will be vaporized.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7S2j4kbzo>

    And if that worries you, I shouldn't mention the eventual expansion of
    the Sun starting about a half-billion years from now, which will
    definitely end any debate about global warming.

    Sleep well.

    Gliese 710

    .2 light years from Earth, only 1.2 million years
    in the future. Is that 1.2 thousand or 1.2 years?
    How easily can one be off by a word or a digit or an
    order of magnitude, if you were to punch a calculator
    or use a slide rule on the matter.

    How easy it would be to get there if it were only .2
    light years distant now instead of some time later.

    So near and yet so far.

    I guess there is that 'concept of limit' or approaching
    something in calculus.

    In astronomy you have almost (but perhaps not quite)
    infinite amounts of distance interacting with almost
    (but not quite) infinite amounts of time.

    In geology it tends to be almost (but not quite)
    infinite amounts of time only. Type the keys on
    a calculator wrong and you can be way off.

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