Do you think the world will end one day?
Will the sun get too close and maybe melt everything?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@AdaXI Our species will be over far before the death of the Sun, taking life on Earth with it.
It would have to be an almighty catastrophe, natural or man-made, to render us extinct though. There would be many survivors, although living in what sort of world, is another matter.
In the end it would be the normal course of biology that ends our species, but probably taking around three million years to do so. (That is thought by palaeontologists a fairly typical span for mammalian species.)
It would have to be an almighty catastrophe, natural or man-made, to render us extinct though. There would be many survivors, although living in what sort of world, is another matter.
In the end it would be the normal course of biology that ends our species, but probably taking around three million years to do so. (That is thought by palaeontologists a fairly typical span for mammalian species.)
AdaXI · T
@ArishMell Yeah sure take your pick of theories all I'm saying is I doubt they'll be anything left by the time the sun starts running outta energy.
In that sorta timescale a number of asteroids might of hit the earth and countless other stuff happened that will of probably all accumulated to it being uninhabitable by that point.
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In that sorta timescale a number of asteroids might of hit the earth and countless other stuff happened that will of probably all accumulated to it being uninhabitable by that point.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@AdaXI I don't know what you actually meant but your first sentence looks like a sneer. By the natural course of events the "death" of the Sun as the OP asks, is not something humanity needs worry about. After all, we cannot possibly say what life there will be on Earth that far ahead.
Our major threats to us are far more likely by our actions than by Nature, but still won't make us extinct. Even an asteroid impact, although having extremely severe effects possibly with massive loss of life, won't do that. There have been such impacts in the geological past but although with major consequences, life in its entirety continued.
What I think likely is that ironically, the more "sophisticated" and "advanced" our society the harder it would be to survive a major natural catastrophe - though that is NOT a recommendation to go and scratch a rough existence in the woods like a cross between Mediaeval hermits and American "preppers". If we tried that, we'd not survive anyway!
Our major threats to us are far more likely by our actions than by Nature, but still won't make us extinct. Even an asteroid impact, although having extremely severe effects possibly with massive loss of life, won't do that. There have been such impacts in the geological past but although with major consequences, life in its entirety continued.
What I think likely is that ironically, the more "sophisticated" and "advanced" our society the harder it would be to survive a major natural catastrophe - though that is NOT a recommendation to go and scratch a rough existence in the woods like a cross between Mediaeval hermits and American "preppers". If we tried that, we'd not survive anyway!
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