Re:How are humans going to become extinct?
by Nursie on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @06:00AM
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Hmm, interesting.
I was going to go with our hard-deadline for life on earth, 800 million to 1 billion years in the future the sun will have baked us so hot there's no liquid water left.
But you're probably more accurate. It's entirely conceivable that by then the increased solar output and our own tech advances will have made it possible to take up residence in other places in the solar system, which may even have become slightly more habitable by then due to the increased solar radiation. Hmmm.
Re:How are humans going to become extinct?
by yen223 on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @06:10AM
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That's possible too. But eventually, even the universe will succumb to entropy. I guess it's just a question of whether we die out in the solar system, or in some other star system.
I was going to go with our hard-deadline for life on earth, 800 million to 1 billion years in the future the sun will have baked us so hot there's no liquid water left.
But you're probably more accurate. It's entirely conceivable that by then the increased solar output and our own tech advances will have made it possible to take up residence in other places in the solar system, which may even have become slightly more habitable by then due to the increased solar radiation. Hmmm.