Shouldn’t the vacuum insulate the glass from the heat of the burning filament?

  • notUboiii@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the sun too small to turn into a supernova? and basically will just die a boring death after swallowing all the planets in the solar system and fade into nothingness

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      1 year ago

      A new worry has been unlocked: We’re all going to die but not in a cool way and all the other solar systems will think we’re lame.

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          1 year ago

          global warming is definitely something it makes sense to worry about and which there’s still some chance to mitigate the worst effects of.

          The sun expanding - or even the much earlier effects before that happens, as the sun gets hotter - will happen on such long time scales that there simply won’t be any humans at all; most species only last about a million years or so, vastly less time than we’re talking about.

          We might well make the planet nigh uninhabitable in considerably less than one-millionth of the sun-being-a-major-problem time. It’s like worrying about the bridge maybe rusting dangerously a few decades from now, while not paying attention to the truck that has just veered onto your side of the road and will surely hit you in the next few seconds. You need to take evasive maneuvers, not worry about the bridge.

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      1 year ago

      basically will just die a boring death after swallowing all the planets in the solar system

      Not all the planets, no. Mercury and Venus, sure. The earth’s orbit will move somewhat further out when the sun expands, and probably won’t be swallowed but it will at least be well baked.