End of the world

[BC_Programmer]

remember y2k? this isn't any different. Take something small (a calendar made by some civilization doesn't go on forever) and make it huge (OMG, the world will end!).

Did it ever occur to anybody, that they got that much done, and they thought figured that maybe their descendants would add to the calendar when necessary?

[Zylstra]

Or even that, maybe, their December wasnt actually like our December, and perhaps not even the end of their year?

Way back when, they had the calendar, sure, however, look at history, what we consider "a year" has changed over time. Think of what April Fools day came about with...

[macdad-]

Well the 2012 thing could mean something else besides the whole "Judgement day" kinda stuff.

There was a special on the history channel on Nostradamus and 2012. And said how there was a bibical refrence to that and how the "End of days" could just mean a change, instead of armegeddon.

[Broni]

I'm not worrying. Living in CA, I have Arnold on my side

[macdad-]

Arnold....awesome

"GET TO THE COPTER!"
 

[mroilfield]

I have a calendar that ended on Dec. 31st 2007 so does that mean that we are a year and 25 days over due for the end of the world???

[JJ 3000]

yes

why didn't you warn us earlier?

by the way - why are you keeping an old calender?

[tylerisdabest]

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I think it's a load of bollocks.  Predictions are for weather forecasters, and even they can't get it right.


i hope not thats when ill turn 18

[Bones92]

If the world does end I hope I'm still in New Zealand -  Everything important only arrives in New Zealand three years after the rest of the world.

[macdad-]

so do you know there is a Halo 3?

[Google]

I thought the world ended in Y2k.

No it's the Y2B. The year the sun is gonna end.

[BC_Programmer]

I thought the world ended in Y2k.

No it's the Y2B. The year the sun is gonna end.

the what?

[Google]

The Year 2 Billion

[BC_Programmer]

I don't see the significance of that, since they clock the sun as having 4.5 billion years left. And it won't matter then anyway- since most of the other stars will have burned out too, so, assuming we even have the ability to travel through space, we would have nowhere to go. (warranted... we'll probably be there if so...)

the proper word would be Y2G

[Google]

Well if you ever took physics you would know that the sun is made up of hydrogen, and as the hydrogen burns, and the center of the sun compresses it slowly turns into helium which is not as heavy as hydrogen. So the sun loses mass.

The rate of mass loss is 4 x 10^9 Kg/s. That is 4000000000 kilograms / Second. And the mass of the sun is 1.98892 × 10^30 Kg (about 1.988920000000000000000000000000 Kilograms).

So...can you figure out what I'm trying to say? Anyone wanna take a stab at how much time the sun has before it has no mass?