Re: What Atheists Can't Answer

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:24:02 -0600, Rich Travsky
<traRvEsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> When the sun shrinks into a white dwarf at the end of its stellar
>> lifetime, the Earth will still be orbiting it, with a mass and velocity
>> not much different than they are now.
>> 
>> Unless I made a huge math error, which is possible.
>
>Surface temp of a red giant is in the 300 to 3500K range, or below,
depends
>on the source. Plenty hot to fry and the proximity of the envelope means
>a kingsize dose of radiation. And solar wind. Or any other kind of
emission.

The Earth will be a cinder and life would have ceased to exist on it
long before.  And what effect would the explosion that results in a
white dwarf do to the orbit?

Swill
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