Milky Way Collides with Andromeda !

In the constellation of Pisces, some 100 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are seen to collide - providing an eerie insight into the ultimate fate of our own planet when the Milky Way fatally merges with our neighbouring galaxy of Andromeda.

http://www.exploreuniverse.com/astrolog/

I won't live to see the day.

You are both right,just as sure as the Sun comes up every morning, it is scheduled to die.

Experts give it some 7 billion years, when it will turn into a bloated red giant. As the name implies, a red giant is a star swelled to enormous proportions.

Earth would be first engulfed in heat and light, then vaporized.

Did someone say-sunblock?

Hmm...7 billion years, destruction of Earth...I'll pencil that in on my day planner!

Hmmmm. I have a better chance of crapping out my lungs than living that long. So, I'm not worried. broken_inside, nice siggy.

The universe may cease to exist one day too....big deal...big bang

that sounds really sad, to imagine our planet being destroyed completly...but i think there will be no humans to see our planet being destroyed by heat, or maybe we will destroy it first....who knows, i gues ill be playing cards with the angels at that time...

This is wierd, I hope we are never have to see it..

Na, dont worry about it, you wont be here to see it unless you plan to live for a really really long time.

Don't worry. The sun will die before that happens so we won't be there to see it anyway.

That is the cause,the sun dying,and taking our planet with it,along with Mercury,Venus and Mars.

Vaporized.

At last, the human race will extinct!!!

I can just imagine what the night sky would look like if people were around in the future to see it. The entire sky at night would be crystal blue and white from andromeda and would look amazing.

Im pretty sure in 7 billion years we will be able to fly around in space and what not...so the sun blowing up is no problem. Unless of course your stuck on Earth.

FINALLY!!!!! YAY

Now that would be nice.... Damn Great Great (x how ever Billion) grand Kids get all the nice stuff.... The again they may be dead so..... MEH!

i think the planet will die much earlier then that man kind will destroy it not fate

I think it is safe bet to say that humans would have colonized other planets in 7 billion years time...

The problem is we would have to colonize other planets in another galaxy, because the milky way would be all messed up. So they would have to travel a LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG time just to even get to the nearest galaxy. If we could travel the speed of light right now and head for andromeda it would take 2 million years just to get there. Unless warping space time is possible then they could get their in 3 hours.

Even the ships dreamed up in Star Trek cannot travel outside of the Milky Way.

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How about a "worm hole",for a shortcut.

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Stars race around a black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy so fast that they could go the distance from Earth to the Moon in six minutes.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0509...meda_stars.html

In 7 billion years I think that we will be able to go another galaxy.

In 6000 years we have gone from living in caves and using stones for tools; to travelling to the moon. I think its a fair guess to say that in 7,000,000,000,000 years we will be able to travel to other galaxies.

Exactly.

But the thing is nothing can go beyond the speed of light, it's the universes constant. I doubt humans will have enough resources on a couple of space ships to last a couple million years traveling to the nearest galaxy which is andromeda the closest one and wont be an option of course, but the nearest galaxy after that is like 100 million something light years away. They would have to reproduce and balance it out with the death rate while on voyage or else they would go extinct or overcrowd their ships. Looks like warping space time is the only thing that could save us in that event. I only wish i could be alive then to see the sky at day and night filled with andromedas colors.

maybe we could figure out how to jump into different dimensions with different properties.

Different properties.!?

Like what.....?

We cannot comprehend technology in 7 billion years. There is no point in trying to say things will not be able to happen.
Cave men would have said going into space was impossible...

7 billion years in the future the earth would not even exist .

If it's zero, it's not a constant. (Don't they have something about speed of gravity?)
And yes, Andromeda is a very beautiful galaxy. The sky would be quite a sight.

Oh man, this one is chasing me all over the forum/.....

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If it's zero, it's not a constant. (Don't they have something about speed of gravity?)
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A gravitational field is a geometric shape caused when a massive object distorts the space around it.
We dont know how fast gravity moves.

We are fairly sure it moves at c.



http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3232

I am tottally sure that the human race will easily survive the andromeda and sun things, becuase A: we will develop the neccisary technology, or B. an extraterrestrial race will help us.

All I was saying was that at zero, it's not a constant, and there was a thread in here about the speed of gravity made by STIX that I was mentioning to QuantumE, not everyone in the thread. Cool stuff.

Well, if you read it all, there is a paragraph that says it won't swallow up earth for 5 billion years...


Prof. Ian Robson, Director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre which built GMOS in collaboration with other partners said,” This is quite scary. Since GMOS was installed on the telescope back in 2001 it has taken some amazing astronomical images of very faint, distant galaxies and star forming regions, providing a wealth of scientific data, but this one sends shivers down my spine. Our saving grace is that we have about 5 billion years left before we get swallowed up by Andromeda. Nevertheless, it’s amazing to see so far in advance how planet Earth and our own galaxy will ultimately end. Glad to say I won’t be around when the fireball happens”.

i cant even imagin the feeling you would feel seeing your planet about to be destroyed by a colliding planet. i doubt, even if humans were alive when it happened, they wouldnt live to see it.

Thank you, Captain Obvious. (joking)

oh god ur so mean!

lol, actually, I'm pretty nice, sorry. It just seemed obvious, that's all.

either way someone smartass would point out that we would die way before it would happen or just call me captain obvious like u did.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!!!!

im glad u enjoy my humor .

I think Hazard was just being helpful,no need to get all defensive

we arent doomed. pshh. We have Bruce Willis to save us. Go get em Bruce!

Bruce Lee

UP DATE.

Solar systems may continue to exist around stars that have reached the end of their lifetimes, flared up and collapsed.

New evidence shows that asteroids and dust discs, and perhaps even planets, may circle white dwarf stars, the burned-out remnants of stars that have already undergone their all-consuming red-giant phase.

There is still hope,but it may be a grinding sort of life.

http://www.newscientistspace.com/channel/a...uns-demise.html

If I (somehow) do live to see the day all this happens, I'm sure by that time I will be begging to finally see death.

yeah. like in a million years. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.lol.


dont worry it wont happen until after your dead.

mac

How original.

thanks. your origional too. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.lol