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LIFE LENGTH

4th january 2009   these time scales take a bit of getting used to don't they it's not until a being is 99 999 999 999 years old that it becomes appallingly small there's a few lifetimes worth in there each one more awesome than the last and then the next one beckoning, forever beckoning

4th january 2009  17th august 2010   the hydrogen gas that is the necessary ingredient for making stars like our sun will have been used up or become too dispersed to make any more suns it is known to science that long after the last of the stars like ours in the milky way ( isn't that a great name) have become depleted there will be slow burning stars that will take 10 000 000 000 000 years to run their course after that it will be black holes to harness for their energy ( and you think nuclear energy is dangerous! ) but now we're entering love length territory