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1. #101
   On September 13th, 2011 at 3:49 am, tbear44 said:

   Launch giant venetian blinds into space to a point where they will block the suns rays to earth. Open and close as needed. Problem solved. See Al? That wasn’t so difficult was it?

2. #102
   On September 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

   It isn’t often you hear the words “Al Gore” and “reality” in the same sentence

   A speaker should never speak on a subject they’re not familiar with

3. #103
   On September 13th, 2011 at 9:30 am, mondamay said:

   On September 12th, 2011 at 4:08 pm, T-Bone said:

   I’ll tell you. Our Sun will eventually run out of fuel and will basically die. When it dies, we all die, probably in a massive explosion. This is certain because the Sun is a star and we have observed how stars have worked in the past. While still science, which indicates its not totally proven, the universe does offer several clues about the behaviour of stars.

   The closest star that is reaching that point is the Giant Red star Betelguese which is the brightest star in the Orion constellation. It takes 8 years for the light from Betelguese to reach the earth. It is possible it has already exploded but we can’t see it yet. Its also possible that that explosion may impact the earth. While that is still speculation, our Sun ending is not. Millions of years, billions? Whatever. One day it will.

   Betelgeuse is not 8 light years from Earth, it is estimated to be 430 to 650 light years from Earth. It’s mass is estimated to be 13 to 17 time the mass of the Sun. It is in a red supergiant phase and will likely end as a massive explosion. It has had a much shorter estimated life of something on the order of 10-12 million years, as opposed to our star’s estimated lifespan of around 10 billion years.

   Our own Sun is far too small to enter this type of phase. It is expected to finish it’s life as a red giant, and die as a planetary nebula with a white dwarf at its center.

   Our planet would become uninhabitable during or possibly even before the red giant phase, so explosions would be kinda moot by then, anyway. The Sun is getting hotter (at least on a long-range timescale) because as the hydrogen core shrinks, the remaining hydrogen is fused faster resulting in ever-rising temperatures.

4. #104
   On September 13th, 2011 at 9:48 am, NY Andy said:

   Isn’t he still in Colorado looking for man-bear-pig?

5. #105
   On September 13th, 2011 at 11:57 am, thejim said:

   We’re not every other species. We’re Man. With a capital “M”.

   I’ll see your “M” and raise you a big “D” dinosaur

6. #106
   On September 13th, 2011 at 6:28 pm, Mike From Stumptown said:

   I wouldn’t let Al.gore control my Facebook page and Twitter account for 24 seconds, let alone 24 hours.

7. #107
   On September 14th, 2011 at 4:40 pm, GaijinBob said:

   We’re not every other species. We’re Man. With a capital “M”.

   Give us a million years, and we’ll have spread into space, and we will last as long as the universe. Maybe longer.
   I give us a thousand years to become independent of Earth.

   Given our current trend, I’d put money on an Eloi/Morlock future.