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nancylebovbut it might only be a million and a half.
I am bloody well entitled to some super-science fiction about this. The field hasn't had enough astronomical disasters lately. [3][4]
[1] conservative estimate because the sun's gonna be a red giant and engulf the earth[2]) in about 4 billion years, and for all I know, there are tectonic and/or atmospheric issues which will make the earth uninhabitable by then. [5]
[2] I've read that school teachers are told to tell kids that we'll find a solution by then.
[3] My commenters will probably know of 3 or 4 books that I either haven't heard of or have embarrassingly forgotten.
[4] Egan's Diaspora had an entirely satisfactory gamma ray burster, but it's been 15 years already.
[5] A million and a quarter years from now, this post will be quoted as an example of the irresponsible carelessness of the Ancients. And besides, they had footnotes out of order.
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I am bloody well entitled to some super-science fiction about this. The field hasn't had enough astronomical disasters lately. [3][4]
[1] conservative estimate because the sun's gonna be a red giant and engulf the earth[2]) in about 4 billion years, and for all I know, there are tectonic and/or atmospheric issues which will make the earth uninhabitable by then. [5]
[2] I've read that school teachers are told to tell kids that we'll find a solution by then.
[3] My commenters will probably know of 3 or 4 books that I either haven't heard of or have embarrassingly forgotten.
[4] Egan's Diaspora had an entirely satisfactory gamma ray burster, but it's been 15 years already.
[5] A million and a quarter years from now, this post will be quoted as an example of the irresponsible carelessness of the Ancients. And besides, they had footnotes out of order.
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