Theoretically, since the sun is continuously losing mass, its gravitational field is weakening too. Supposedly, earth will slowly drift into an ever widening orbit. Possibly this will allow earth to survive the sun's transition, of the Main Sequence, to the Red Giant Stage.
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I'm grateful I won't be around for that.
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Concur.
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This is so beautiful and I can see this conversation so vividly I'm my head and feel it in my heart.
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Aw, thanks!
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You're very welcome.
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“I... yes of course. What else would we be talking about?” “Obviously the moon. Obviously.” “That’s why your fingertips are touching my hand... The moon.” “The moon.”
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I'm crying
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ha. There's a series in which the moon is closer *now*, and they *do* measure it. (It's a reflecting mirror, whose orbit is decaying.)
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