The Real End of the World
 

I'm talking about when we HAVE to lose our planet: when the sun decides its had enough, burns all of its hydrogen, and dies. Red giant, swallowing the inner planets, lovely stuff like that.

What's interesting though, is that people today care about this happening; It won't for another 4.4-4.6 billion years. No clue why, but there's the facts.

I'm just bringing this into light because we have to think. NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are working on getting us to Mars now. By the time our star's number is up, where do you think we'll be in terms of space exploration technology? Will we be able to migrate to a new planet (using Star Trek tech?) and continue life there?

No way man, with current tech almost impossible
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Recycling the hydrogen for the next Big Bang BBY!
 

1. I doubt mankind will be around another 400 years let alone 4 billion. The smaller the world becomes the more convinced i am that it is our destiny to destroy ourselves

2. It takes roughly 8 and a half minutes for sunlight to reach earth, going on the assumption that her supernova would take a similar time to consume our planet... well... if the missus is cooperative, i for one can get a hell of a lot done in 8 and half minutes and the end shall come at roughly the same time that i do. :up:

3. if the 4 billion year estimate is even remotely accurate... well, you could set this planet on fire and roll it into a black hole and my emotions on the matter wouldn't amount to two turds in a rusty bucket

By the time the sun starts going into its death throes, we will have evolved into something not quite us in a mere 50 thousand years. I'd worry about the implications of that first.

I don't think most people consider the time involved. It's "only" been about half a billion years that there has been multi-cellular life on the planet, but we're talking ten times that when the sun goes. I hope there will be something that develops from us and isn't limited to one planet in five billion years, but I would be quite surprised if there were still recognizable humans. It's possible our machines (with an AI capability we can't imagine) might be the future heirs of our civilization and wouldn't have a lot of our frailties and limitations when it comes to existing in space.

But then an asteroid might come along at anytime and render the whole argument moot. :)

That was my initial thought but either way, I won't be around to witness anything.

Tech isn't the problem, our human mentality is.
We're more inventive in ways to destroy one another then doing the opposite.

Well that's enough time to run the whole single cell to human thing a few more times. There's no hurry. :O:

I agree, and will go into more detail a bit later when I have time to type. :yep:

Bring it on baby. :sunny:

Sooner the better.

:haha::up: That's awesome Dowly!

On a side note, isn't that what all the religious people want? [insert god here] will judge us/save blah blah blah. Paging Skybird now.

Some scientist will tell you the Human race has peaked and we are heading back to the primeval soup.

We 'peek' alright!
 

:sign_yeah:^AS IN: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...I_Memorial.jpg and then died out!:/\\!!...better for elephants and whales IMHO!