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Quoting Zeke_XA3:
Im not going to die. Since i was old enough to read i have had a feeling, since reading a book about the end of Earths natural life, that i would see it for myself.
This is lifted from my MySpace page..
Now i doubt many people will now where this is from.
But it means something to me. I believe that i will be there when this happens. I dont know how and i dont know in what form it will be, but i will be there, and when it happens, in those final moments of the Earth i will recite these words. Who the other person will be i dont know, i dont know if there will be another person but i will be there.
"Five billion years from now, maybe to the day, the sun burns ninety percent of its hydrogen. A balance is destroyed. More energy is created than released. Quickly, in a few million years, the sun radiates all of its potential power. The star swells. Mercury, Venus, the Earth... disappear. Swallowed. The sun truly, finally, touches the sky. Life vanishes eons ago.
"Eventually, the sun shrinks, decreasing to the size of the Earth, which reappears from the Red Dwarf's grasp. With no gravity to hold it, the Earth slowly floats away.
"Elsewhere, stars are born. Other star systems - older, larger - continue to breathe. The solar system dies of crib death. If that's what it takes, then okay. If I must wait that long, then all right. Because when I think of this, nothing is more desirable than the hope of watching that last day when the sun flickers out, with you beside me. We'll sit alone on a dark chunk of ice at the top of the world, and the stars above, beyond and between us will never shine brighter as we drift away into space."
Im not going to die. Since i was old enough to read i have had a feeling, since reading a book about the end of Earths natural life, that i would see it for myself.
This is lifted from my MySpace page..
Now i doubt many people will now where this is from.
But it means something to me. I believe that i will be there when this happens. I dont know how and i dont know in what form it will be, but i will be there, and when it happens, in those final moments of the Earth i will recite these words. Who the other person will be i dont know, i dont know if there will be another person but i will be there.
"Five billion years from now, maybe to the day, the sun burns ninety percent of its hydrogen. A balance is destroyed. More energy is created than released. Quickly, in a few million years, the sun radiates all of its potential power. The star swells. Mercury, Venus, the Earth... disappear. Swallowed. The sun truly, finally, touches the sky. Life vanishes eons ago.
"Eventually, the sun shrinks, decreasing to the size of the Earth, which reappears from the Red Dwarf's grasp. With no gravity to hold it, the Earth slowly floats away.
"Elsewhere, stars are born. Other star systems - older, larger - continue to breathe. The solar system dies of crib death. If that's what it takes, then okay. If I must wait that long, then all right. Because when I think of this, nothing is more desirable than the hope of watching that last day when the sun flickers out, with you beside me. We'll sit alone on a dark chunk of ice at the top of the world, and the stars above, beyond and between us will never shine brighter as we drift away into space."
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