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SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 week agoFun fact, while the earth will almost certainly be engulfed by the red giant phase of our sun, it will not be immediately consumed. A floating lump of rock will exist and continue to orbit the center of mass for millions of years inside the sun.
teft@piefed.social 1 week ago
Couple problems with your theory. First, the roche limit will turn the earth into a rubble pile and/or ring system long before the earth is engulfed so it won’t be one piece when it is consumed. Second the surface and outer layers of the sun are plenty hot enough to melt rock and as soon as that happens the rock is probably just going to become part of the plasma making up the sun’s atmosphere.