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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago

Missing: any sort of physicist who will tell them both that the forward model says that the sun won't explode for a few billion years, and so far that model hasn't been wrong.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Minor correction: in a few billion years our sun will expand into its red giant death phase.

Also: our star can't go nova by our understanding of astrophysics. If it actually can, then we might need to throw out a lot of astrophysics, including predictions on when our star will expand.

Also also: the odds of the dice giving double 6s is MUCH higher than our sun going nova at any point in time even if it could go nova and was overdue.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I think our sun can go nova. What it can't do is supernova based on the Chandrashekhar limit

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