I get my news from you...un ironically
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Great now give me a star trek meme about some terrible world event.
I'm thinking an Archer based meme if you got em.
Hmm... How about this one (not mine) about saving the whales and spam calls?
I often see memes about world events before I see a headline, they're on to something here.
I also just had to go look out the window to make sure the sun wasn't blowing up, because you never know
Don't worry, I'll DM you a meme if it happens.
Can you send it to me as well please?
Of course
Thanks
Pew did a survey a while back that showed viewers of The Daily Show and Colbert Report were the best informed about domestic and international affairs, so I don't feel bad about getting my news through memes.
It turns out that when you add some levity to the absolute shit the world is going through it helps people pay attention
Plus if you don’t know what’s going on you don’t get the jokes.
John Stewart is returning for 1 Show a week for the election cycle so there is hope!
While I agree with the sentiment here, any sudden event happening with the Sun is is the only kind of event that could not be communicated by memes. It would require someone to witness the light of the supernova, create a meme, and post it from the section of the Earth experiencing noon, and for someone experiencing midnight to read the same meme at the same exact moment the supernova reaches them. Internet doesn’t travel faster than light, and the knowledge of a supernova happening requires being hit with the light generated by it.
Our sun will not explode, it will become a red giant, progressively grill us, pulse and contract to a white dwarf. Got a couple hundreds of millions of years before the intensity becomes unbearable, that's a thousand times the age of our species. Hopefully we have figured interstellar travel by then, if we don't have already destroyed ourselves. https://www.space.com/solar-system-fate-when-sun-dies
that was the joke
This post is over 8 minutes old, we’re all good
I know it's overly pedantic to say this:
The sun can't go supernova because it hasn't finished fusing hydrogen. When it does finish, it will swell up to a red giant. This has to happen before it can explode, and the swelling process will take a very long time (in human terms).
The sun isn't big enough to go nova, period. It will swell up in ~5 billion years when it runs out of hydrogen in the core and starts burning helium. Then the sun will start climbing the fusion chain up to iron and there the fusion reaction in the core will die out. When this occurs the outer shell will kind of just slough away leaving a planetary nebula and an extremely hot naked mostly iron core. This core is a white dwarf and will just continue to glow for a few tens of billions of years until it loses all its heat. No fusion is happening in this bad boy it just glows from the residual heat and the heat is so hot it takes longer than the current age of the universe for that heat to dissipate.
Back to the original point though is that the sun won't explode in a supernova because it lacks the mass to do that. You need a star that is at least 8 times as massive as the sun in order to get a supernova.
The meme will be stale by then.
Secondly, would it even be possible to know in that the sun has exploded?
The meme says "in the 8 minutes it takes for the light to reach us" but that would also be the precise moment in which we learn of the explosion leaving us with no time to make memes.
Which leads me back to my initial question, how, if at all possible, could we setup an early (seconds/minutes) warning system for such an event?
Possibly some kind of quantum entangled alarm system in a lower orbit around the sun?
Completely tossing around BS of course, just an interesting thought experiment.
No and yes. If it happened instantaneously then no.
However, scientists are capable of predicting solar flares well in advance. They can do that by looking at what is happening on the surface of the sun. If it was about to explode, there'd likely be some kind of unusual activity there for several days prior to the explosion. The sun is also rather big. So even if aliens decided to blow it up unexpectedly, it'd probably take more than a few minutes for the explosion to engulf the entire sun, meaning that you would have time to send a meme before lights went out.
I'm not really sure what other purpose a warning system could have. There's no good place to hide if the sun goes out.
What if it happened at night? Then we'd be fine, right?
it’d probably take more than a few minutes for the explosion to engulf the entire sun, meaning that you would have time to send a meme before lights went out.
Okay, good. That makes me feel better.
Ostensibly another party would have done something to blow up our sun. Dark Forest Theory and all that. Can't have the rabble getting interstellar travel now can we?
Well, ya see he used that word IF. Admittedly it is doing some heavy lifting here, but... well, thanks for the science fact I guess.
Do you feel better having said it?
Yeah.
Well then I'm happy for you stranger
/checks post time
Phew
If it happens we won't know about it for 8 minutes until it reaches us.
Billions must fry
Oh, from the title it looked like this was a statement by the oil industry - defending it's profiteering in the face of climate change.