BS: See the future with Gaia

Subject: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 18 - 01:30 PM

The greatest star survey on Earth will let you see the future and our galaxy as never seen before. In 1.2 million years you can see Glia, a star 60% the size of our sun, crash into our Oort cloud. Yes you can turn back time as well.


For serious observers https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/

For the academic http://sci.esa.int/gaia/60192-gaia-creates-richest-star-map-of-our-galaxy-and-beyond/

For looky loos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJ1XmbSKhM

Subject: RE: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Dec 18 - 04:04 PM

"In 1.2 million years you can see Glia..."

You might be able to. I drink far too much red wine...

Subject: RE: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 18 - 07:24 PM

Maybe its just the Recipe thread, but you are starting to sound like a large disembodied 15 meter long alimentary canal with big eyes slowly swimming tropical rivers of red wine, unless you are a chef.

I'll settle for Gaia as a virtual time machine. A real time machine would never find a fixed target in an ever moving universe unless there is mirror time reverse universe created at the big bang and invisible to us like dark matter that you could break into and navigate.

Subject: RE: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Dec 18 - 08:04 PM

I merely picked up on one of your absurdities. For what it's worth, I eschew absurd ideas such as Gaia. Life on Earth is a smear on the planet's surface, a rather beautiful smear, but the planet will survive our demise, shrug it off and start again, as long as water continues to exist in the liquid phase.

Subject: RE: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Iains
Date: 10 Dec 18 - 05:39 AM

The beauty of the Gaia concept is that it regards earth as as a self-regulating system(That to an extent it is) Therefore global warming presents no threat to gaia, but perhaps to us. However even that potential threat cannot be quantified, According to Al Gore the arctic has melted and parts of New York are under water, and it all happened some years back. Good to see the various models fly with same efficacy as my own airfix model attempts.

Subject: RE: BS: See the future with Gaia
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 18 - 09:41 AM

The Gaia 'concept' is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the astro physics project I speak of which is the largest data set to map and visually navigate our galaxy. The confusion or linking of the two is to be expected.


Glia 137 will probably lead to the asteroid impact extinction level event of life on Earth (again). So the doomsday clock is ticking.
The star is not in a period orbit to my knowledge.
A mortality moment is usually motivational and good for us.