Well over the course of the collision, Earth could get ejected from the galaxy. But also the collision is predicted to occur nearly 10 billion years from now so the sun would have already consumed the planet.
Even if the solar system was ejected, I don’t think anything would change. As long as no large objects came into the solar system to disrupt our orbit of the sun, we probably wouldn’t notice.
I believe in a star trek future that lasts billions of years. I mean hopefully we’re exploring other galaxies at that point, but if we’re still only galactic, losing the cradle of humanity would be devastating
Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that the Sun will be allowed to proceed down its natural path. In principal, stars can be engineered. It doesn’t require any radical technology; it’s more just a problem of scale. I fully expect the Sun to be still burning strong a trillion years from now.
As for whether Sol will be thrown by the merger either out of the galaxy or into the galactic core? I think the Sun will go in whatever direction we choose it to go.
We can’t even cooperate with one another to stop climate change - something happening on the scale of a human lifetime - and you think we’ll engineer the sun to stop expanding over the course of a billion years, and then steer it?
It’s very unlikely that a galaxy collision would meaningfully affect anything for us except our view of the night sky (over millions of years).
Well over the course of the collision, Earth could get ejected from the galaxy. But also the collision is predicted to occur nearly 10 billion years from now so the sun would have already consumed the planet.
Even if the solar system was ejected, I don’t think anything would change. As long as no large objects came into the solar system to disrupt our orbit of the sun, we probably wouldn’t notice.
I believe in a star trek future that lasts billions of years. I mean hopefully we’re exploring other galaxies at that point, but if we’re still only galactic, losing the cradle of humanity would be devastating
smh somebody needs to reinsert the solar system back into the VHS player, it came out again
E: ejecto seato cuz!
Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that the Sun will be allowed to proceed down its natural path. In principal, stars can be engineered. It doesn’t require any radical technology; it’s more just a problem of scale. I fully expect the Sun to be still burning strong a trillion years from now.
As for whether Sol will be thrown by the merger either out of the galaxy or into the galactic core? I think the Sun will go in whatever direction we choose it to go.
We can’t even cooperate with one another to stop climate change - something happening on the scale of a human lifetime - and you think we’ll engineer the sun to stop expanding over the course of a billion years, and then steer it?
Actually, I kind of admire your optimism.