Comment by XorNot
15 hours ago
Reminds me of my favorite writing prompt that was so good it was it's own story too:
"It’s been publicly confirmed that our galaxy is within the open maw of a massive galaxy-eating beast. The beast can’t move faster than light, so it’ll take hundreds of millions of years for it to finally bite down. This is something that humans will just have to live with"
(I don't think you can actually tell a good story with this, it's a background detail you would put in some other story).
That’s already more or less the reality of our situation. If nothing else happens, the sun will begin to die in 5 billion years and eat us in the process. Granted it’s a larger timescale, 5 thousand of millions of years instead of hundreds of millions.