Question

Something to get you thinking...

Answer 1

How long does it take the light from the sun to reach earth??...

\(\LARGE8~minutes~ and ~20~ seconds..\)

This sounds like a strange question, but think about it. Sunlight travels at the speed of light. Photons emitted from the surface of the Sun need to travel across the vacuum of space to reach our eyes. The short answer is that it takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Answer 2

When the Sun runs out of fuel, the entire solar system's going to feel it. First, gravity will force the star to contract, raising the heat inside its core. Then it will expand into a bright red giant.

This mean we wouldn't be able to fund out for 8 minutes..

Answer 3

When we do realize, its already to late....

Answer 4

Now, who's to say these aren't our last 8 minutes....

Answer 5

Is there gonna be some kind of motivation from all this, orrrrrr you just trying to scare people? xD

Answer 6

I'm sorry but NASA is able to predict Solar Flares from the Sun weeks and months in advance, they'd be able to predict the contraction and expansion of the Sun just as well.

Answer 7

@vickerys37 Even then it would take time to detect it, so we would stay be unaware, then you would include the amount of time it would take to inform everyone...

There would be no possible way to predict something this major. Everyone would still be oblivious to what us to come.

And yes, im trying to scare you. >:) lol

Answer 8

Did you not catch the weeks and months in advance part? Or the fact we have internet and radio and news shows and newspapers? Also something of that magnitude would get out quick. There would be very few out the loop about it.

Answer 9

@vickerys37 Yea, I bet you never heard about the solar flare that almost wiped out humanity in 2012 did you? Your little NASA has been holding back info. lol Solar flares can't be predicted for two hours after they occur and it take 8 minutes for them to reach earth, even then we would never stand a chance. It's not a how, its a when will it happen. Do some research on solar flares, it will show you that nasa isn't as reliable as you think.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/24/solar-flare-nearly-destroyed-earth-two-years-ago-nasa/

Read that it will teach you something new. :)

Answer 10

It seems anything someone can say will start an argument somewhere...

Answer 11

@TheRaggedyDoctor that's the great debate! I love to debate. <3

Answer 12

Yes I did hear about that Solar Flare. I read the news, I watch the news. Also I can't really take you seriously when you insert "lol" mid-paragraph. Do some research on supernovas. You talk as if we always only have 8 minutes left. If you did some research on supernovas and our Sun you'd know our Sun has millions of years before that happens. And yeah, a Solar Flare will probably kill us before then. All I'm trying to tell you is that the contraction and expansion of the Sun isn't happening in the next 8 minutes.

Answer 13

I love to debate too, so long as it's a debate rather than an argument-argument, lol

Answer 14

xD @TheRaggedyDoctor did he just supernova? lol

Our sun isn't large and dense enough to do a supernova! It will expand but not the size of a super nova! THe sun will expand and then blow up, supernovas happen to big stars, they expand super huge, and then collapse on themselves, and... \(\LARGE BOOM\)

Answer 15

Well cool. Our Sun won't supernova. But literally the 'destruction' of our Sun isn't supposed to happen for a few million years give or take.
"The Sun is a yellow, G2 V main sequence dwarf. Yellow dwarfs live
about 10 billion years (from zero-age main sequence to white dwarf
formation), and our Sun is already about 5 billion years old." from http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part5/section-7.html
Oops I was wrong a few billion.

Answer 16

Well, no. I can step in here. Stars living for billions of years... that can't be proven. We have no idea how long a star actually lives, it's an assumption made to go along with a few other theories of the universe.

So @Joel_the_boss is right, becauseeee we have to know for a fact how long a star can live before we start making predictions.

Answer 17

@sikinder

Answer 18

wat? @Joel_the_boss

Answer 19

MYSTERY MYSTERY I AM ANNOYING............. Randomness