Another slow news day … with the media demonstrating its uselessness and its practitioners as idiots:
What Grok AI thinks about this
The chance of Earth being thrown out of orbit by a passing star is extremely low. For 100 years, it’s effectively 0%, as no close stellar encounters are predicted. For 1,000 years, it’s roughly 0.0000000004%, still negligible. For 1 million years, it’s about 0.00004%, very low, with Gliese 710’s approach in 1.29 million years too distant to disrupt Earth’s orbit significantly. These estimates scale from a 0.2% risk over 5 billion years, but short-term predictions are uncertain due to rare, chaotic events. No immediate concern exists based on current evidence.
