• Question: Can planet earth disppear?

    Asked by emmagrace to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Not easily, no.

      To destroy it, you would have to either smash another planet into it and break it into millions and millions of rocky chunks. This is EXTREMELY unlikely to happen.

      Or, you would have to wait for the sun to expand up and engulf the earth. It would then fall into the sun’s core and be vaporised. This is likely, but it is not going to happen for and EXTREMELY long time (approx. 5,000,000,000 years).

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Blink and you missed it. As derek said, not for a long while yet.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Nope and if it was destroyed I think there would still be bits of it left behind! 🙂

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Maybe similar to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: the Earth may be discontinuous on the probability axis and could be destroyed by a Vogon constructor fleet to built a hyperspace bypass through our galaxy…

      🙂

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