Science 101

[Are_grits_groceries]

I learned something while I was in line at the bank. The two mooks behind me started talking about the weather. At first, they were just making general observations about the flooding and Harvey.

Then one of them said, "The sun is getting closer to the earth." I just thought ok so far. Then he said that the sun was gonna run right into us before long.

I looked at my feet and thought "Good lawd."
I almost turned around and asked him for a donation since we were gonna be fried to a crisp soon.
My Mama would have failed his ass. He would not have left her classroom thinking that.

[greeny2323]

1. Amazing

I don't know how people manage to think those things, unless they were vaguely recalling the story of the Sun eventually becoming a red giant. And I think the Earth is actually very slowly receding from the Sun.

[JHB]

5. Perhaps he just has a long-term perspective...

If he's thinking in terms of hundreds of billions of years, then yes, the 5 or so billion before the Sun goes into red giant stage and starts swallowing the inner planets counts as "before long"

But odds are, he wasn't a bank-line cosmologist and just had it all wrong.

[rurallib]

2. eclipse must have fried his brain

[HAB911]

3. Not surprised at all

[FM123]

4. You bank at the same branch with Eric & Donald Jr???