each time the Earth orbits the Sun on an ever decreasing path! I am not a religous person but does it not mention in the Bible that the next time the Earth ends it will be by fire!!
2006-11-06 10:00:57 · 27 answers · asked by deeky_ward 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We have the ability now to measure the orbit of the Earth, and all other planets, to very high precision, and it is not getting closer to the Sun.
You can do a very rough measurement yourself. If the Earth gets closer to the Sun, the Sun will appear bigger in the sky. Measure it in photographs taken by the same telescope a year apart.
Another consideration is this. Currently, the Moon and Sun appear the same size in the sky, which produces spectacular total eclipses of the Sun. If the Earth got just a little closer to the Sun, the Moon would no longer be able to completely cover the Sun. So if total solar eclipses continue as usual, that is evidence the Earth is not getting any nearer to the Sun.
2006-11-06 10:42:03 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is just a man-made construct to control other men. Get with the program and think for yourself or at least do some research. I have researched that many scientists agree that the planet Earth is actually pulling away from the Sun. The Sun, as part of its solar lifespan, will expand to a red giant in 5 Gyr. Models predict that the Sun will expand out to about 99% of the distance to the Earth's present orbit (1 astronomical unit, or AU). However, by that time, the orbit of the Earth may have expanded to about 1.7 AUs because of the diminished mass of the Sun. The planet might thus escape envelopment.
2006-11-13 08:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by gleemonex69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It Is True what you are saying, But at the same time as the sun slowly burns up it is slowly expanding and before the earths orbit has a chance of deteriorating that much, the sun would have expanded so far that the Earth would have been absorbed into the Sun anyway. By the way that will be in about 500,000,000 years time, so there is plenty of time in which 1) Man destroys the earth by using up all of its resources. 2) Aliens invade the Earth and we end up as slaves. 3) Man builds a space craft & finds a new planet to live on. 4) What is said in the Bible happens.
2006-11-09 23:56:56 · answer #3 · answered by Joolz of Salopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great, what a waste of time my life has been trying to put right the wrongs of the past and make my mark, thanks for reminding me..
and yes the earth will end up like it's brethren venus and mercury boiling on the surface waiting for the emptiness of space to absorb it...
Who's to know, you might not be all that intelligent anyway and we could just be dreaming the path to its destruction away while the monkeys and the dinosaurs help compress it in the real world, without you, for this journey...
We could even be on it 300 billion years after life's destruction, ohh we are aren't we...
2006-11-06 10:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jon M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sunlight provides heat temperature for the dimensions of the earth, interior and out of doors. without it, the Earth must be too chilly to survive. So chilly to the certainty that technological expertise might give up to paintings. No existence can exist on earth without the sunlight. Hell, no existence can exist on earth regardless of the shown fact that the sunlight have been merely merely a sprint farther away, or somewhat bit closer. The Earth is in what they call a "habital zone".
2016-12-28 14:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by jamila 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people know that ultimately the Earth will become too hostile to support human life, the heat of the imploding Sun will boil the oceans dry before the Earth will be utterly consumed by fire.
Whether you are religious or not, this will happen. However, we won't be around to see it, I don't think it is meant to happen for billions of years.
2006-11-06 10:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought the fact that by the time the earth either moves away from the sun...or closer.
our sun * which is middle aged as stars go* will have started to grow to a red giant...so irradiating the planet killing most life anyway.
plus lets not forget mankind has evolved from ape like creature to our present state in 4 million years.......homo sapiens sapiens will long have stopped crawling about on this planet when that our sun goes supernova
2006-11-06 10:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by deadbyday_uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that the guy above me was right when he said we are actually moving away, I remember seeing that somewhere. Doesn't matter though, ultimately the sun will go red and swallow up everything to Saturn, thats timed about 5 billion years from now so hopefully we would have colonized the galaxy by then :)
2006-11-06 10:12:15 · answer #8 · answered by shadowchaotics 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientifically, you are right, the earth and sun are getting closer to each other. Then end of earth from sciences point of view, however, is that our sister galaxy know as Andromeda with collide with our galaxy, the Milkyway, and that will happen sooner than the sun engulfing earth.
2006-11-06 10:10:52 · answer #9 · answered by Bucky for Prez 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ermm Yep!
Our Sun.. A very common G Type Star will eventually burn all its fuel,
In this process it will expand into a red giant swallowing the 3 inner planets, Mecury, Venus And Ohh Dear.. Earth!
Then it will shrink into a dead black dwarf leaving this system in darkness
Adios Amigo!
2006-11-06 10:16:11 · answer #10 · answered by Spooky Mouse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋