05-18-2016, 05:18 PM
One exoplanet, a "giant Jupiter" was discovered racing around its host star, trailing something resembling the tail of a comet. The stellar wind was apparently blasting away material from that planet, most likely from its outer and lightest layers. If Jupiter is any indication, then the first materials to blow away would be hydrogen, helium, and then the lighter hydrogen compounds like methane, ammonia, and water. Then -- it is your guess both on the composition of Jupiter and the chemistry of a dying planet. Such atmosphere as there is might offer some insulation, but it is clear: that planet doesn't have much of an existence left.
Nobody will be around long enough or close enough to see what happens. As the sun bloats the doomed Earth will itself get hot enough to radiate visible light (technically speaking, the Earth does radiate some electromagnetic radiation, and if some distant and intelligent civilization has its radiation detectors pointed at us it will find our planet anomalously hot due to radio waves from our broadcasts until it figures that there is information in those broadcasts, even if they are of Rush Limbaugh).
Nobody will be around long enough or close enough to see what happens. As the sun bloats the doomed Earth will itself get hot enough to radiate visible light (technically speaking, the Earth does radiate some electromagnetic radiation, and if some distant and intelligent civilization has its radiation detectors pointed at us it will find our planet anomalously hot due to radio waves from our broadcasts until it figures that there is information in those broadcasts, even if they are of Rush Limbaugh).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.