10-26-2003, 06:36 PM
Ok, I'll go back to acid's point. You're talking about a pretty insane event... yes, the Sun is large, but it's also 93 million miles away. There has been life on this planet for billions of years... an event you're describing would cause a mass extinction. Of the mass extinctions we know of, there's no evidence I've ever heard of that points to a natural occurrance of the Sun as being a cause. The reason life exists here is because the conditions are right, we are just the right distance away with the right combination of molecules and the right-sized planet. There would not be life here if the sun were that much of a threat. Just because there has been some activity in sunspots in the past few years is not indicating the end of life as we know it, considering this seems to be something that hasn't happened in the past two billion years. I don't know, the time scales are so huge and we've managed to do just fine, I think you all need to relax and think about something else, it's wasted energy. Like I said... society-ending asteroids we can do something about, the earth being "flash-fried" is not. Speaking of which, that's not really an occurrance that I even knew was possible in the Sun's current state... I'd like to see some legitimate scientific stuff on that.