Sunshine

John Wolf · Post by **John Wolf** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:07 am

You guys may also like this trailer, a interesting scenario that in 50 years time the sun is dying and it needs human intervention to survive.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searc ... /trailera/

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:14 pm

How the hell is that even scientifically possible? From what I know, it'll be billions of years before our sun dies.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:30 pm

Dreamer wrote:How the hell is that even scientifically possible? From what I know, it'll be billions of years before our sun dies.

How do we know that?

Maybe its that old already.

Doruk Golcu · Post by **Doruk Golcu** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:59 pm

Well, I gather that stars go through 'stages' of life, and they have fairly good idea at which stage the sun is. From there, it is straightforward to estimate how much life it has left (mind you, Earth will be habitable for only a fraction of that time, AFAIK).

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:54 pm

Saw the trailer a few nights ago. Looked great! I understand the extended trailer includes some spoilers, though.

I think according to the storyline, the sun is going through a premature demise due to some spatial phenomena.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/plotsummary

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:51 pm

The sun would be increasing exponentially and would grow dimmer over decades.....and if we miss that....maybe someone will notice mercury is gone

So I doubt we have anything to worry about when it comes to the sun. But as Doctor Who would say,
"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're gonna get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive."

Lycanthrope · Post by **Lycanthrope** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:32 pm

From the director of "28 Days Later" and "Trainspotting"? The first one was a very climatic movie and I've heard good things about the latter - it certainly drew my attention.

As for determining the age of the Sun: The scientists can estimate the amount of hydrogen in it by analysing the spectrum of radiation and surely have many other useful tricks, not mentioning their observations as Doruk Golcu said. As far as I know the Sun is halfway through it's lifespan.

I've got one question, though - unrelated with the topic. Does anyone know what the title of the music played in the trailer is?