What we have here is evidence of the Gliese Star side-swiping our Solar System (inside the Oort Cloud) in 'just' 1.2 million years.

That's not much time, in the scheme of our planet's existence and life upon it.

So basically, going by the evolutionary time it has taken for us to be here today. 1.2 million years is like a blink of an eye.

Currently, Humanity looks as if it could only survive another thousand years. So another intelligent species has just 1.2million years to evolve 'before' all life and this planet is 'possibly' destroyed.

This clip shows amazing mapping technique of our Galaxy via the Satellite GAIA. The amount of 'Exo Planets' is astounding - thousands! Just outside our Solar System.

A bit slow until the 12min mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJ1XmbSKhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJ1XmbSKhM

An asteroid could hit us at any moment -
an extinction event.

A super volcano could wipe us out too.
There are 20 super volcanoes in the world ready to explode.
Super volcanoes can put up to 5,000 cubic kilometers of
dust & chemicals into the atmosphere in one explosion -
enough to darken the world for years meaning no crops would grow.
We would be wiped out.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 25^th, 2018 at 12:03am:


All a possibility - but the Star Gleise is a certainty.

Jasin wrote on Dec 25^th, 2018 at 1:18am:


Perhaps (s)he's just taking the piss.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 25^th, 2018 at 2:38am:


And so. Even if Humanity excelled and lasted 1 million years and became so advanced - would we be advanced enough to live forever? Even if for another 5 million years?
After all, the Dinosaurs lived for over 100 million years. We haven't even scratched their record.

Cu Chulainn wrote on Dec 25^th, 2018 at 3:14am:


But don't forget Subs already had 3 lifetimes worth of jiggy jiggy .....

something some of us only dream of ... especially when ya old. 

I saw a man in Katmandu
He had no eyes, they were taken out.
He had no nose, it was cut off
He had no ears, they were cut off too.
He had no fingers, cut off.
He had no tongue, taken out.

He could not see, smell, hear, touch-feel or taste-talk.
His life, day in - day out, was to sit by the side of the road in a little humpy of rags someone built for him and 'beg' for food and water, never money.
I wondered, when I just stared at him from next to my paid tourist guide, who - like others, brought Tourists to come and see this man. Would he know how old he was, how long he had been like this, would he care what year it was??? Has he lost another sense, to time?
I discharged my guide, who reluctantly went, for bringing me to this man.
I waited a few minutes and then moved towards the bowl of the beggar man, pulled my pants down and bent to drop a dirty curry-induced bog-log in his bowl. He felt the bowl vibrate from the drop against his ankles and he immediately bent his head down to eat face first into the bowl. He could not smell the crap he was falling towards, nor could he taste it as he swallowed. He rose and his face was covered and smeared with faeces. He ate poo!
I was horror struck! How could he - do such a terrible thing?  What drove him to commit such madness? Eventually I settled, as I watched him lip-clean the bowl and thought - well, lucky for him, I didn't have a gun or I would have shot him dead.

Moral of the story: Star Gleise is the Bullet

Apparently Gleise will pass close enough to be seen with the naked eye. About 3 times as bright as mars. Probably a bit too early to get excited about it.