[OT] Re: Let's make a difference

[Dave Smith]

Bryan Sant wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Corey Edwards <tensai at zmonkey.org> wrote:
>> And either way, in 4 billion years the sun is going to blow off its mass
>> turning into a white dwarf, at which point it won't matter much.
>
> I knew it.  The sun is 32-bit.  Only 2^32 more years before the count
> rolls over.

Let's just hope the sun's not powered by Java, so we can get a full, 
unsigned 2^32 years out of it, instead of just 2^31.

--Dave