Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! My God, the Sun gave birth to the planet of life my ancestors live on. I want to thank my star for its warmth unlike any other. Limitless warmth for millions of years to come. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Do you feel the warmth of other stars? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's going to be giving out more heat as time goes by, also. 1% more heat every ten million years, approximately. About 300-400 million years from now, it's going to be too hot for our remote descendents to go on living here on Earth--in fact, with 30% more heat being produced, you can imagine Earth being turned into a giant steam-bath, a planet-wide sauna with steaming oceans and only thermophilic bacteria able to tolerate the conditions. Mars will be quite nice by then, though...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
If mankind is still around in a million years, we will probably have colonised many other planets. At present, to use a saying, we have all our eggs in one basket. One disaster could wipe us all out.
kaneda but in few hundred years if Earth is destroyed we could very well be able to self sustain ourselves in space elsewhere.
Thank it ????!!!?!?! For an unceasing rain of deadly particles and radiation sufficient to kill every living thing on the surface of the Earth ? Better thank the Great Magnet, baby. It's the only reason you be livin'. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
For as odd a thread as this is, I kind of agree. At least in the sense that the sun is where we come from, and it's amazing to consider it. We're all stardust, baby. It's beautiful imagery, with the collapsing, perhaps swirling, cloud of gas that becomes a star, while the leftovers swirl around until they themselves collapse together and form the planets and moons. Very, very cool. Don't quite think it needs to be thanked, though. Go ahead and try if you like, but, erm, I don't think it can hear you!
“The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child” Ralph Waldo Emerson "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." Victor Hugo
We don't come from our Sun. We are the result of a super-nova some 4.6 billion years ago. The stuff drifted and a nova/super-nova disturbed it to form an accretion disk. Our Sun did not start burning (properly) till after the planets had formed (if it had been a hot formation with the Sun blazing away first, gas giants Jupiter and Saturn would not have formed where they did). Our parent star is probably a black hole now. The solar wind would keep material from other stars away. From starlight, we know that infra-red radiation from other stars must reach us but there is so little of it that it cannot warm up the interstellar medium to any degree.
If the Sun is my God because it sustains life, then humanity must be my God too for it is life Sun sustains
