Imagine, if you can, a massive blue whale. Back on Earth, this whale is leaping majestically out of the water while spectators point and snap cameras from a passing charter boat. Suppose, for a moment, the whale’s name is Wylie. When Wylie the Whale hits that water, the splash will be humongous. Everyone will clap. It’s going to be grand.
Now imagine that the sun explodes. In an instant, fire and radiation sweep out into the solar system and demolish Mercury and Venus like a firehose blowing through cheap tissue paper. Millions and millions of years from now, little alien boys living billions of light years away will point their telescopes at Earth and think this explosion is cool – but as Wylie the Whale leaps out of the water and stares straight up into the flaming solar doom that, one instant from now, will smash through her world like dynamite blasting through a sand castle, all she can think is “Oh.”
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