Re: Life After Posthumans

SolomonW wrote:

In article <mttc04l9p5ajsh1k04udst2bvh37h7vfeq@xxxxxxx>, pethorne@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
You *might* find some remnants
that are ten or a 100 million years old.

In interstellar terms 10 or 100 million years is nothing.

Not really. 100 million years is the total lifetime of a star only a dozen or so times the mass of the Sun. For the most massive stars (a hundred or so times the Sun's mass), total lifetime is only about ten million years.

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