Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — How the World Will Die. [ARTICLE]

How the World Will Die.

According to all probability, notwithstanding all the circumstances which threaten it, our plauet will die, not of an accident, but a natural death. That death will be in consequence of the extinction of the sun in 20,000,000 years or more—perhaps 30—since its condensation at a comparatively moderate rate will give it, on one hand, 17,000,000 years of existence; while, on the other hand, the inevitable fall of meteors into the sun may double this number. Even if you suppose the duration of the sun to be prolonged to 40,000,000 years, it is still incontestable that the radiation of heat cools it, and that the temperature of all bodies tends to au equilibrium. The day will come when the sun will he extinct. Then the earth and all the other planets of our system will cease to be the abode of life.