Timeline for Aliens pressure cook the Solar System, do we notice?
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 23:44 | vote | accept | BMF | ||
| Sep 16, 2021 at 7:45 | comment | added | Alexander | @BMF I corrected my calculations (based on EdwinW's comment and one of my own mistakes), and the numbers now look much better for you, though still not quite great. | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 7:43 | history | edited | Alexander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2021 at 7:31 | comment | added | Alexander | @EdvinW you are quite right! I should have been calculating speed with respect to interstellar medium, not galactic rest frame. Although this speed is much less known, I could find that it's about 10 times less than Sun's galactic speed. So my initial calculations are likely 10 times off, but unfortunately solar system is still doomed. | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 6:44 | comment | added | EdvinW | This answer assumes that the sun moves through a stationary background, like a car running through still air. But with the whole galaxy spinning, not just our particular star, wouldn't that imply a considerable tailwind that could potentially reduce the "drag"? I might very well be wrong, but this is at least what my intuition tells me. Am I wrong? | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 1:40 | comment | added | BMF | Ah, damn, I think your math is right! That definitely shoots some holes in my story. Thanks for your answer | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 0:48 | history | edited | Alexander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2021 at 0:43 | history | undeleted | Alexander | ||
| Sep 16, 2021 at 0:43 | history | edited | Alexander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 22:19 | history | deleted | Alexander | via Vote | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 21:58 | history | answered | Alexander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |