12 Apr '16 18:26>
Do you think she'll be okay? I mean, when eden becomes coruscant.
Originally posted by SuzianneHumans around for long term, not in the equation. We will be history long before Earth gets challenged by the sun When the sun runs out of fuel, it expands to something like the size of the entire Earth orbit and at that point Earth is a burned out cinder, but dead long before that and that is billions of years in the future and humans will be lucky to be here even 5 MILLION years much less 5 billion. If we do it right, we go out among the stars and at least last as long as we possibly can, out living the odds of extinction compared to just hanging around Earth. Even getting a permanent colony on Mars would start that process.
This planet will keep spinning.
Whether there will always be humans on it is another question.
Originally posted by sonhouseOlaf Stapledon - Last and First man
Humans around for long term, not in the equation. We will be history long before Earth gets challenged by the sun When the sun runs out of fuel, it expands to something like the size of the entire Earth orbit and at that point Earth is a burned out cinder, but dead long before that and that is billions of years in the future and humans will be lucky to be h ...[text shortened]... to just hanging around Earth. Even getting a permanent colony on Mars would start that process.
Originally posted by pawnpawNow it appears modern humans just being around Neandertals seems to have helped in their extinction because we gave them a number of nasties, like herpes and others. We are SUCH a helpful species.....
In the geological and fossil history we find five massive exterminations of life on earth, and we know more or less the cause of them: large meteors and vulcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun with dust for decades. Ice eras. But everytime life started again, diversed, and filled the earth and oceans.
The sixth and worst extermination of life started wh ...[text shortened]... is maybe a new human species in forming.
Does "Homo humilis" even stand a chance of surviving?