In the End....

[Robby]

Guys, the future is bleak...
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/Gravitas/spiralmetamorphosis.html

In about 3 billion years give or take a few hundred million the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies will collide. We are currently racing towards this doom at about 500,000 km/hr.
By then the human race will probably be living on Titan, as our ever growing sun will have made Earth a molten mess, and be very cloes to consumming it completely. Mercury & Venus are long gone, and Jupiter will be a miny sun in out Titan sky, glowing hot from the pulsating sun...
If we survive this far, Andromeda will be a truely spectular night time sight, beign perpendicular to the milky way, we will see it's spirals with great detail. By the time this collision has taken place hopefully the human race has hitched a ride on a newer solar system with the new Andromeda Way galaxy. By then we should have found countless planets capable of supporting life.

Something to think about huh! The greater picture.
Cheers
Rob

[ving]

in the mean time I believe we are in the midst of a collision with another galaxy already.

kinda glad I wont be around for the big one tho :)

[Starkler]

If our galaxy collided with another would the man in the street even notice it? There is a lot of empty space between stars.
Im guessing not unless we came too close to something nasty.

[ving]

nup you are right...
our galaxy is currently coliding with the sagitarius and canis major dwarf galaxies.... and no one can feel it here :confuse3:

[Robby]

The collisions themselves take hundreds of millions of years, so the average Joe notices nothing. Any differences take longer to effect than expected human (or other) race existance!
In fact we may owe our very existance to the current collisions that Daivd has eluded too... Trippy ay!

[Sausageman]

Maybe all the weather pattern changes are due to the collision already!
:rofl:
String theory may answer that.....
Or maybe I'm just nuts....LOL

Mike

[ving]

i'll pick the later thanks... :P

[elusiver]

is this before or after all energy on earth is turned to heat?

el :)

[astroron]

Banjoman,Mike your Theory may be not so far fetched, as their is an investigation along those lines, as well as our up and down jurney through the galactic plane on our 250,000 000 year orbit round the galaxy. astroron:einstein: :astron: