
Aubrey de Grey and, for that matter, anyone else who plans to live forever, is probably feeling very relieved today. Astronomers announced that they have observed a planet that survived the fiery ballooning of its local star. This outcome is inevitable: Eventually, even our Sun is going to run out of hydrogen and blow up to 100 times its present size, transforming into what's known as a red giant. As a result, scientists figured that Earth has only about 5 billion years left.
Now, though, it appears that our lovely little planet could survive the Sun's transformation. That said, it probably wouldn't be a very nice place to live. Any of our kind who are still around at that point will probably have moved to another locale.—Gregory Mone
(Image credit: ESA)
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That would almost make for a good movie.
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulso would the novel ender's game, but as anyone who has been following that, its not going to happen. Science fiction has a large fan base, but not large enough to make a mainstream movie, sadly.
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpful"Any of our kind who are still around at that point..."
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpful5 billion years? I'm sure we would not recognize "any of our kind" by that time, it will be something completely different I bet.
"Any of our kind who are still around at that point..."
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpful5 billion years? I'm sure we would not recognize "any of our kind" by that time, it will be something completely different I bet.