Okay folks, help me out with this one

Because I don't understand. I keep seeing articles about getting people to Mars. Mars is pretty much in the area when the sun explodes sooooo I'm not sure how moving people from one planet to another can help.

Is there something that I'm not understanding?

Thanks for any good advice you can provide 🙂

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Bel6EQUJ5

...when the sun explodes...

That's your error, right there. Our own sun is the wrong kind of star to flare up into a supernova (the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.4 solar masses isn't met).
It will, however, eventually die out, but that will happen so far into the future of mankind that we hardly have to even think about that eventuality. By the time we do, with any luck (actually, lots of luck, because we seem intent on destroying ourselves right now) we'll have colonised the Solar System aeons ago and the nearby stars as well.

twiigss · M

@Bel6EQUJ5 I want to have that hope that humanity does colonize planets in the universe, but I have a feeling outside of our solar system the planets will be very far and few between, and most will be inhospitable.

I think because we are intent on destroying ourselves that, we will move very forward with technology but after that I don't think we'll get too far.