“In the Atacama, I saw the future, when the sun eats up the last of its hydrogen and burns into its red-giant phase, big enough to cook life and clouds and oceans off this naked orb. It wouldn't be a fast process, not by our standards. Millions of years in the execution, our sky would finally be half filled by a sun the color of a red-hot moonrise. After that, the sun would probably collapse into a white dwarf, meanwhile blasting away its outer shells of gas into an explosive planetary nebula. I imagine that all of our minerals will pay off as we make a rainbow streak flaring off into space. We will be beautiful.” EarthSunDesertMineralsChileImagining The FutureAtacamaWhite DwarfDying StarsRed Giant Book:Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth Source: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth