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Logical Fallacy of the Day: 'No True Scotsman'

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Honorary Yooper5/12/2009 1:55:19 pm PDT

re: #411 davinvalkri

That’s that long-form Incan or Mayan calendar that stops on December 2012 so everybody figures the world will end then, right?
I got a better date for you. 5 billion A.D.
That’s when the sun goes up, right?

Mayan calendar. I’ve got an even better date: A.D. 2 billion. That’s when the Sun is supposed to become larger and at the very least burn the Earth to a crisp, if not engulf it entirely. After that, it’s another 3-4 billion years of the Sun being a red giant before it may nova. It’s too small to have a supernova. After that, it’s a long and winding road as the Sun becomes first a white dwarf, then a red dwarf, and finally a brown dwarf before extinguishing.