@edsolomon.bsky.social you just deleted a big bang joke but no shit, one of the ways I have found to cope with The Death Of America is listening to podcasts about geology and ancient marine life where they talk in millions of years. Thinking about extinction events puts things into perspective.
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We'll wind up sharing orbit with it. It'll be out at either L4 or L5 (I forget which)
It's like how Saturn won't have rings in a few tens of thousands of years. We get them, special, just for us.
Eventually, it'll no longer be giving us tides, but by then everything will have adapted long since to not having tides.
Ofc too many of us & those we love are in its teeth, and there's a danger of coping becoming complacency.
https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0?si=ZJTHSpY4kNpWze4M
Listening to this now: https://youtu.be/WdWky-1MaT0?si=qF_L_yf7dI8uYdKR
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wonderful-life-the-burgess-shale-and-the-nature-of-history_stephen-jay-gould/253443/#idiq=421280&edition=1896517
When you think of timescales like this, it stops seeming quite so apocalyptic that the Supreme Court overturned "no man is above the law" and that corrupt evil men are taking over the government.
https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-lava-outburst-may-have-led-snowball-earth