Yes, all you doom-sayers, the world is coming to an end...

[Fritzo]

...in 500 million years. Better prepare!

We thank the Sun for giving us energy. Without it, there’d be no life on Earth. It’s ironic, then, that the Sun will eventually kill all life on Earth.

That’s because the Sun is slowly heating up.

One of the most fascinating books about this topic is The Life and Death of Planet Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. In their book, they chronicle how Sun’s energy output is slowly increasing. In as soon as 500 million years, temperatures on Earth will rise to the point that most of the world will be a desert. The largest creatures won’t be able to survive anywhere but the relatively cooler poles.

Over the course of the next few billion years, evolution will seem to go reverse. The largest organisms and least heat tolerant animals will die out, leaving hardy insects and bacteria. Finally, it’ll be so hot on the surface of the Earth that the oceans will boil away. There’ll be no place to hide from the terrible temperatures. Only the organisms that live deep underground will survive, as they have already for billions of years.

http://www.universetoday.com/11430/the-end-of-everything/

 

[Texashiker]

Epic win.

I knew there was a reason why I was stockpiling food and ammo.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

So buy real estate in Antarctica, it's sure to increase in value.

 

[NuclearNed]

We must kill this "Sun" now, before it's too late.

 

[IronWing]

Or organisms will adapt and go on thriving.

 

[Pardus]

Otisville ?

 

[IronWing]

We must kill this "Sun" now, before it's too late.

Nuke it!

 

[HydroSqueegee]

if we havent killed ourselves off in the next few thousand years, i would hope we would have found some way to colonize and terraform other worlds long before then.

 

[blackangst1]

And in other news, humans start dying as soon as they are born...

 

[JTsyo]

Nuclear winter will take care of a hotter sun for awhile. Now let's take a poll on where the nukes should be set off.

 

[dank69]

Are you willing to tattoo the date 500,002,012 on your head?!