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Sadly it is still only a stop-gap measure. The sun is for all intents and purposes, dying a slow death.
by farmdve 1y ago
Sadly it is still only a stop-gap measure. The sun is for all intents and purposes, dying a slow death.
- meindnoch 1y agoSure, but it may keep Earth habitable for an extra billion years.
- psychoslave 1y agoUnfortunately it looks like we are more in the track to human inhabitable earth :(
- generic92034 1y agoLong before death it will expand to or almost to Earth's orbit. I doubt humanity could isolate Earth from that.
- BirAdam 1y agoYeah, but if humans exist by the time the sun fails us, they wouldn’t really be the same species as us, and they’d hopefully have progressed to the point that they could escape the Earth.
- OhioMan2943 1y agoYou're saying we wont maintain tradition and our "humanity"?. I like to be a little more optimistic and believe in us as a species transferring values until the end.
- Scarblac 1y agoLook at all types of mammal that exist, from us to platypuses to bats to whales. Evolved in a few hundred million years. Modern humans have been here for a few hundred thousand. In 500 million years absolutely anything could happen (if we survive this century).
- ta1243 1y agoSure, and entropy will end us all one way or another
- floxy 1y agoWe'll have colonized the galaxy in 10 million years. In 200 million years, I'd expect that some future historical society could undertake a project to clean out the heavy elements in the Sun to keep it going.