NASA to Reveal Hubble Discovery of Milky Way's Violent Fate Thursday - Polidicks

Andromeda seems like kind of a dick.

[QUOTE=fear me;36140762]Andromeda seems like kind of a dick.[/QUOTE] What kind of penis?

[QUOTE=supertribute;36140803]What kind of penis?[/QUOTE] The kind that inserts itself into another galaxy and fucks it.

pc gaming is dead rip

This collision may spiral out of control.

What is it with you people and puns? They are not funny and never were.

[QUOTE=R1Z3;36139039] I DON'T WANT TO DIE YE—Oh billions of years, never mind.[/QUOTE] Some facts about this: Because there's so much space, the odds of any two objects such as stars hitting each other when the galaxies collide is minimal. I'm talking 5-1% - I don't remember specifically. So the odds of anything colliding with the solar system is especially small. The gravity from this new body will fling stars everywhere. The galaxies will eventually merge into a bigger galaxy after millions of stars have been flung into deep space. And even if that happens to the sun, it won't affect us. We're strongly enough attached to the sun by its pull we'd follow along barely affected. We might get a new view at night, but that would be the extent. This would also be a very slow process. The collision takes place over either 1 to 2 billion years. Either way, it is no cause for alarm. Much more likely is that we're all dead before that anyway. That is the hardest thing to predict.

[QUOTE=Reds;36139689]hot Andromeda on Milky Way action[/QUOTE] It rule 34s' itself.

In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?

[QUOTE=JerryK;36139347]well you guys heard it here first thank you Professor, Dr. Kabstrac[/QUOTE] But technically he is right. It's like an Archaic homo sapien, such as an Homo erectus saying his species would be around as well.

[QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?[/QUOTE] You mean ascended

[QUOTE=Oppenheimer;36141207][QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]humanity may even have descended[/QUOTE] You mean ascended[/QUOTE] Depends who wins the general election this year.

People said in the 1910's we would be making space ships and travelling to other solar systems with ease by the 2000's. Clearly, that was true eh?

[QUOTE=EzioAuditore;36141242]People said in the 1910's we would be making space ships and travelling to other solar systems with ease by the 2000's. Clearly, that was true eh?[/QUOTE] And people in the 60's said we'd all die in a nuclear holocaust. The future never goes where you expect it, no one expected everyone would be carrying microcomputers with massive processing power that connect us all in a massive web, colliding particles at near light speed, navigating Earth with a global positioning system and all have access to a free, massive library of knowledge and entertainment before. It sounded too unbelievable then.

[QUOTE=mac338;36141298]And people in the 60's said we'd all die in a nuclear holocaust. The future never goes where you expect it, no one expected everyone would be carrying microcomputers with massive processing power that connect us all in a massive web, colliding particles at near light speed, navigating Earth with a global positioning system and all have access to a free, massive library of knowledge and entertainment before. It sounded too unbelievable then.[/QUOTE] That's exactly what I am trying to say, people say in a thousand years that we'll most likely be using spaceships and stuff but in reality, this probably isn't going to happen.

[QUOTE=EzioAuditore;36141331]That's exactly what I am trying to say, people say in a thousand years that we'll most likely be using spaceships and stuff but in reality, this probably isn't going to happen.[/QUOTE] Well you're comparing a century to a millenum man, I wouldn't do that. I'm guessing in one way or another it probably will. Look at the difference between 1012 and 2012. It'll probably happen, just perhaps not in the way we'd expect it.

[QUOTE=mac338;36141298]And people in the 60's said we'd all die in a nuclear holocaust.[/QUOTE] Not really. I studied Nuclear Anxiety at university and you would be surprised how many people underwent 'pyschic numbing' to the threat of Nuclear attack during the 60's.

[QUOTE=mac338;36141229]Depends who wins the general election this year.[/QUOTE] Gingrich 2012

[QUOTE=NoDachi;36141368]Not really. I studied Nuclear Anxiety at university and you would be surprised how many people underwent 'pyschic numbing' to the threat of Nuclear attack during the 60's.[/QUOTE] That's a pretty specific school of learning.

[QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?[/QUOTE] I do hope you're joking.

[QUOTE=woolio1;36139803]Billions of years... Isn't the sun supposed to go supernova and burn out in billions of years? Which is going to happen sooner?[/QUOTE] Not supernova, it'll go red giant, swallow everything and then burn on as a tiny white dwarf.

[QUOTE=Roof;36139091]maybe speed up by millions-billions of years you man see it happen would be interesting[/QUOTE] Someone set up a billion year time lapse

[QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?[/QUOTE] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wUQr64Rlz_M/T7Ab5zGqbxI/AAAAAAAABKQ/A5679p9HR8Y/s1600/idi-amin-laughing.gif[/img] Okay man, okay. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Reaction image" - Orkel))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?[/QUOTE] Remember science fiction novels and movies form the 70s? They thought that by 2010 we would have flying cars and jetpacks. And space travel :v:

[QUOTE=junker|154;36141934]Remember science fiction novels and movies form the 70s? They thought that by 2010 we would have flying cars and jetpacks. And space travel :v:[/QUOTE] The thing is though, those were realistic and feasible. To make a shield strong enough to stop a galaxy from smashing into a galaxy you would need all the matter of a galaxy to make the shield, and then some more reaction mass to actually push the galaxy away. And all that's completely pointless because you now have a reconstructed galaxy and it's mass as a shield so the gravity is still gonna fuck up the milky way.

[QUOTE=johan svensk;36141140]In a billion years we may have put a giant shield around milky way to protect us from Andromeda. A lot, and i mean A LOT of technological advancement have happened by then. And who knows, humanity may even have descended into a some kind of higher beings?[/QUOTE] As an actual transhumanist, can I just say that you've no idea what you're talking about.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;36141740]That's a pretty specific school of learning.[/QUOTE] It only made up a quarter of my study. But it was really interesting, and depressing.

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[QUOTE=Snake7;36139747]It's not about actual collision, this will fuck up the gravity in both galaxies.[/QUOTE] And? That won't matter either, because if anything is flung out of the galaxy it'll be the entire solar system, not just the Earth. So long as we're still gravitationally bound to the sun, we'll be fine. Not to mention, even at the speed of light it'd take the solar system quite some time to escape the galaxy (or galaxies). But as we've already been over there won't be a sun as we know it then anyway.

[QUOTE=woolio1;36139803]Billions of years... Isn't the sun supposed to go supernova and burn out in billions of years? Which is going to happen sooner?[/QUOTE] I thought the sun was going to expand into a red giant and swallow Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars in about five to ten million years, not billion?