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[QUOTE]Originally posted by targetemployee: [QB] I saw a science program hosted by Sam Neill, of Jurassic Park, on the TLC. Very informative and fun program. I believe the name is "Hyperspace". In the program, there is a dicussion on why we should leave Earth. One of the reasons is the perpetuate the human species. In the distant future, our lovely planet will be incinerated and blown apart by the sun. If we live on Mars, we will buy additional time to leave the system before this world is, too, destroyed. Now, comes the really sucky part of the whole situation. Our system travels through the Milky Way Galaxy, like a horse on a carousel. Every thirty thousand years or so, our system enters densely populated areas of the galaxy. (Densely populated=many star systems crammed into a small area, well, a small area for a galaxy.) Our system is influenced by these other star systems. Influences can include dislodging a rock in the Oort cloud which then takes a very long time to reach the inner system, if this drifting 'bomb' isn't grabbed by one of the larger worlds, say Jupiter. This is one major concern. Another major concern is the explosion of a star. Unlike in Star Trek, where novas are shown to be rather benign events, a nova can disrupt or even destroy another solar system. If this happens (a star explodes next to our star), we will die before understanding what has killed us. Another suggestion for the destruction of our system, which is rather remote, is a roving black hole. There are many black holes in our galaxy and some are not fixed in a path like our sun. They rove the galaxy until one of them latches onto a healthy star and begins to 'snack' on this star. If there are worlds in this striken star system, they are destroyed by the entrance of the black hole. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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