The World Is Going To End!!!

[DrLeftover]

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to work out when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbour, Andromeda.



The pair are being pulled together by their mutual gravity and the scientists expect them to begin to merge in about four billion years' time.



A further two billion years on and they will appear as a single entity.



Our Sun's position will be disturbed but the star and its planets are in little danger of being destroyed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-18285583





The SPACE.com story:



http://www.space.com/15949-milkyway-galaxy-crash-andromeda-hubble.html

 

[Katatonia]

If the Sun's position will be disturbed, couldn't that still end humanity? Because isn't the position between us and the Sun just right?

 

[DrLeftover]

Damned near anything on that scale could ruin our day in ways that even science fiction writers haven't imagined yet.

 

[Evil Eye]

But they might start, eh?

I think setting something 4 billion years into the future might be a bit hard