Sorry. Even that won't deal with the National Geographic magazines. Those things will be found in toilets across the universe into infinity.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >and the sun going supernova will cleanup after us. > > > > I’ve got terrible news! Our modest little sun isn’t massive enough to end > up as a nova. I think a star has to be about 10 or more solar masses to blow > up, otherwise it just swells and then shrinks into a white dwarf. The good > news is though that a billion years of the fully swollen sun baking the > Earth will probably blast away or decompose all of the printers, plastic > shopping bags and National Geographic magazines that are buried in landfill > all over the planet. > > > > Oh! Even better news. I just read that the Earth might actually finish up > *inside* the swollen sun. That will certainly solve the garbage problem. > > > > Greg >
