Oolite Bulletins

A neat animation of the coming collision with the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9cBlvf ... re=related

Starts panic buying and building a survival chamber.

Tricky wrote:

Starts panic buying and building a survival chamber.

I'm afraid those supplies will be long gone by the time it happens

Why are we all sitting around talking about it? We've only got 3 billion years!!! GET MOVING PEOPLE!!!

Also, it's probably not going to affect whoever lives on Earth at the time. "Galaxy collision" does not mean that anything will physically collide, after all. The solar system will find itself in a different position relative to the new centre of the combined galaxy, that's basically all, isn't it?

Commander McLane wrote:

Also, it's probably not going to affect whoever lives on Earth at the time. "Galaxy collision" does not mean that anything will physically collide, after all. The solar system will find itself in a different position relative to the new centre of the combined galaxy, that's basically all, isn't it?

Yes, but a new position in a much larger galaxy . I wonder what further evolution elliptical galaxies will undergo - perhaps eventually reorganizing into a super large spiral galaxy.

So, no need to build a generation ship, the far away galaxies will come to us .

NigelJK wrote:

So, no need to build a generation ship, the far away galaxies will come to us .

That's an interesting way of looking at it...