RockBottom3d ago

the wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"

https://feddit.org/post/27280231

Show threadHellfire1033d ago
Show threadAnafabula3d ago
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).
Show threadrockSlayer
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.
Mar 18 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadMidnight Wolf2d ago
smh somebody needs to reinsert the solar system back into the VHS player, it came out again
Show threadZorcron2d ago
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.
Show threadrockSlayer2d ago
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
Show threadWoodScientist2d ago
Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that the Sun will be allowed to proceed down its natural path. In principal, stars can be engineered. I fully expect the Sun to be still burning strong a trillion years from now.
Show threadSchmoo2d ago

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.