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Originally posted by: mobobuff
[Obligatory] Put the crack pipe down [/O]

Anyway, the earth will be around for a while, but humans won't always be the dominant species.
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When we leave the critters can fight for it.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
[Obligatory] Put the crack pipe down [/O]

Anyway, the earth will be around for a while, but humans won't always be the dominant species.
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I hope it will be basset hounds. 🙂
 
In 4.5 billion years (or slightly less?) our sun is expected to go into its red giant phase, at which point it will vastly increase in size, possibly into earth's orbit. So no longer than that. Of course, if you grew up in Kansas you'd be within reason to state that if it's 6,000 years old as you learned in school, it should last around 6,000 more 😉
 
the universe is estimated at being around 13.7 billion years old. our sun, according to it's size and color, is about 4.57 billion years old and has about 5 billion years until it runs out of fuel.

Link

Link about our Sol

so in about 5 billion years, the sun will turn into a reg giant and while earth won't be destroyed, all the water will boil and the atmosphere will escape. by then, we will definitely not exist anymore anyway.
 
Originally posted by: adairusmc
Originally posted by: mobobuff
[Obligatory] Put the crack pipe down [/O]

Anyway, the earth will be around for a while, but humans won't always be the dominant species.
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Exactly. The age of the sea otter is coming.
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ahem. let me be the first to welcome our sea otter overlords.
 
sigh... the science is weak in the OP.

The universe is between 13-15 billion years old. Exact figures are meaningless, as time is relative. To a beam of light, no time at all has passed since the Big Bang.

The earth should continue for about another 4 billion years. Humanity has much less time though, even without any human influence taken into consideration.
It took a real "perfect storm" of circumstances and events for evolution to bring about the modern human species, and our hold here is quite precarious. Even a slight deviation is the sun's energy output or the earth's orbit or whatever could be disastrous. Still, due to the ridiculously infinitesamal space of time our entire lives occur in, and subsequently the relative rapidity of our evolutionary progress, the odds seems to indicate that we will have many thousands of years of safety in which to evolve beyond the confines of this little planet.
 
I read that our sun did not have enough mass for it to go supernova. Most likelyscenario was that as hydrogen is depleted is that sun becomes red giant and destroying earth in the process.

Where is the countdown clock for this?
 
Originally posted by: Vic
sigh... the science is weak in the OP.

The universe is between 13-15 billion years old. Exact figures are meaningless, as time is relative. To a beam of light, no time at all has passed since the Big Bang.

The earth should continue for about another 4 billion years. Humanity has much less time though, even without any human influence taken into consideration.
It took a real "perfect storm" of circumstances and events for evolution to bring about the modern human species, and our hold here is quite precarious. Even a slight deviation is the sun's energy output or the earth's orbit or whatever could be disastrous. Still, due to the ridiculously infinitesamal space of time our entire lives occur in, and subsequently the relative rapidity of our evolutionary progress, the odds seems to indicate that we will have many thousands of years of safety in which to evolve beyond the confines of this little planet.
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sigh... the courtesy is weak in the Vic.

On a serious note, I was informed by my brother that you're one of the smartest, so if this was a Yahoo question I'd tag yours as the best answer. Don't let it go to your head. 😛
 
Originally posted by: BlameCanada
It will last until the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons destroy it.
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Didn't you watch the movie? They only manage to take out a few city blocks 😛

Anway, considering all the options, sometimes I get the feeling that it won't be too terribly long :Q

Nathan
 
I read that our sun did not have enough mass for it to go supernova. Most likelyscenario was that as hydrogen is depleted is that sun becomes red giant and destroying earth in the process.
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There's about 5 billion years of fuel left in Sol(our Sun), the red giant will come before the fuel burns out.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I do not plan on being on the ces pool called Earth 4 billion years from now. Heck, I don't plan on being this rock in 100 years.
 
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