BBC report Earth may collide with Mars in 3 billion years..

[eharding]

...Gordon Brown blames the Tories, and vows to remain in power for 3 billion years "to see the job through"

[Mclovin]

i dont know why but even know its 3 billion years away it scares me....

[angryS3owner]

Mclovin said:

i dont know why but even know its 3 billion years away it scares me....

perspective my man, you'll be dead and most like we'll all be dead from something else anyway long before then.

[Mclovin]

i'll be frozen and be defrosted to enjoy this great event in 3 billion years time along with walt disney and salvador dali...

[T89 Track & Race]

angryS3owner said:

Mclovin said:

i dont know why but even know its 3 billion years away it scares me....

perspective my man, you'll be dead and most like we'll all be dead from something else anyway long before then.

3 Billion years? I stll won't have got around to dusting the top of the TV by then...

[eharding]

Mclovin said:

i'll be frozen and be defrosted to enjoy this great event in 3 billion years time along with walt disney and salvador dali...

So there you have it.

At the end of Human history, through the millenia past, and the aeons yet to come - the final synthesis, the essence, the very soul of our species...at the ultimate conclusion, the final cut, our last gasp...will be a scene in which Gordon Brown is kicked in the face/nuked from orbit/bought an MX5 by Mclovin, told by Walt Disney that he's more Mickey Mouse than Mickey Mouse, and Salvador Dali finally finds someone who looks even more outlandish than one of his paintings.

[ShadownINja]

Isn't the sun expanding and will engulf Earth in 1 billion years' time?

[youngsyr]

Did you hear the bit where the voice over stated that the calculations could be wrong?!

Yet another scare non-story from the BBC.

[Northern Munkee]

Are we entitled to compensation? Who do I sue?

[robinhood21]

Roll up, roll up and place your hard-earned here for a comprehensive insurance policy should this happen.

[Mclovin]

mx5...what you on about i'm not a hairdresser, it was obvious to anyone that car had a haircut and an accident and i told the guy....in the future you will take a pill and be adorned with a glowing virile mane...

[FourWheelDrift]

[Trigger]
"So what are they going to do about it?
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[LoveMachine]

ShadownINja said:

Isn't the sun expanding and will engulf Earth in 1 billion years' time?

A bit of debate about that in orders of 100's of millions of years, but essentially, yes.

There is also the chance that the less dense sun will cause the earth to move out in it's orbit......

We are concerned with events which are multiples of the time it has taken humans to evolve from slime. We won't be around to see it.... what is around to see it will probably beyond the wildest science fiction, whether more slime or other.

[glazbagun]

Scary stuff, but can't they stop it from happening if they just introduce some new punitive tax?

[69 coupe]

I think something needs to be done about it
Yes thats it!

[robinhood21]

The Wibble Wobble Tax should roll off Winky's tongue nicely me thinks!

[Eric Mc]

Cole Porter was correct (although the date was slightly off)

"Have you heard, it's in the stars...
Next July we collide with Mars
Well did ya'ever?
What a swell party this is"

[turbobloke]

ShadownINja said:

Isn't the sun expanding and will engulf Earth in 1 billion years' time?

That's thought to be in about 5 billion years' time but if I'm wrong please accept my apologies in advance.

[Jasandjules]

In 3 Billion years most humans will not be living in this solar system, having pottered off to other planets.....

[turbobloke]

robinhood21 said:

The Wibble Wobble Tax should roll off Winky's tongue nicely me thinks!

The level of national debt would still be astronomical.