Red Museum

Consumed by a Red Giant (video that follows, the wonder of the sun... prologue to your doom) Beauty... all around. I do promise.

I was born out of a red museum

Into a large cosmic garbage truck

Pirouetting in an office

Around the most standoffish of bosses

Evolved like a dream of dust motes

The sound of an impeccable silence!

Feels real each and every time

I do and do not hear it

　

He's going to eat us you know?

Swallow us whole!

With an appetite and not much around

We are snacks in an ice box

Soon for the oven

Each and every time

Author's Note

Reviews

[pammy55]

Perhaps a few billion years left for the Earth, but I don't suppose humans will be around to see the end.

[Davidgeo]

About 5 years before the sun runs out of hydrogen and completes the main sequence of it's lifetime and begins to fuse helium then the core will become violently active in what is known as the "helium flash" where in about 40% of the suns remaining helium mass fuses into carbon in just a few minutes. In those few minutes more energy is realeased then at any time in it's life - combined - it is an unimaginable amount of energy to us.... But actually pretty tame as far as star death is concerned. Then it will expand and double in luminosity for a few hundred million years as it continues to fuse helium in carbon. As the helium is depleted the outer layers expand further and further and the helium fusing core pulsates huge levels of energy. Those pulsations slowly push the outer layers further and further out until those layers are blown off completely and the only thing that remains is it's core. Which cools over time into a white dwarf where it will stay for trillions and trillions and trillions of years. eventually becoming a giant solid core of carbon, closely resembling that of a diamond. A pale gigantic stabilized diamond is the ultimate fate for stars like our sun.

[Davidgeo]

^^^^ 5 BILLION years,,, sorry. not 5. THat would suck for us.

[pammy55]

Snack in an ice box, soon for the oven.

I like that, like the world is the ice box and hell the oven.

[Davidgeo]

"Scorpion fights against the Sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns." ts eliot

There is a chance the Earth's core survives and orbits the Sun in it's final phase as a relatively cold white dwarf (still a couple thousand degrees F)

[Troy Henson]

Nice play with words here.

Enjoyed the read.

[mattblack123]

Very good this.

Much enjoyed