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Will humans cease to exist eventually?
My science teacher said that eventually the sun will go out like every other star in the universe and the Earth will die out. It will probably take a million more years or thousands, but the time will eventually come. Is this true?
39 Answers
- sirjester099Lv 61 year ago
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew
Now man's reign is through!
- Bulldog reduxLv 71 year ago
Everything will die eventually, even the universe itself. The reason is the second law of thermodynamics.
- Jeffrey KLv 71 year ago
Yes, the sun will become a red giant and swallow the earth. But this will happen in 4 billion years.
Humans will be extinct long before that. Most species last only a few hundred million years. Human have only been here for about 2 or 3 million years.
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- ?Lv 71 year ago
There is no doubt that our Sun will eventually go through the motions of Red Giant and White Dwarf respectively
None of which bode well for Earth itself which would probably end up a lump of ash
The Sun is around Half way through its lifetime at 4.5 Billion
Surely Man can find a way to settle all our differences and realise we are all Humans and our only home is little Planet Earth
And strive to survive
Along with that will more than likely go our Technology
OK, the Farthest a Human has Got is the Moon
And the Voyagers are doing their best to beat all distance records
But we are getting there
Especially in the Higher and Faster department
We have got a long way to go and who knows what could happen ?
Technology has come a long way since 1900
- ?Lv 71 year ago
Correct. Stars don't have an infinite amount of fuel and eventually they run out. It is predicted that in about 5 billion years, the Sun will swell up into a red giant because of being unable to shine by hydrogen fusion any more, and incinerate the Earth. But the Sun will have been getting steadily hotter before that and it will probably be too hot for life before the Sun gets to the red giant stage.
We probably have 3-4 billion years, but that's a long time. It's about as long as the Earth has already existed.
After the red giant stage, the Sun will shrink down to become a white dwarf and then slowly die out. It's just as well the Sun is a very average-sized yellow dwarf - if it was much bigger, it'd run out of fuel quicker and explode. But then life on Earth wouldn't have had time to evolve in the first place.
- ?Lv 71 year ago
You've gotten the factual answers. The other answer is that it's nothing to lose sleep over.
- daniel gLv 71 year ago
Humans will be extinct sooner than you think,,and long before the sun is any issue.
Yea, about 4 billion years from now, our sun will go red giant and totally crisper earth, even Jupiter will get flamed.
- Anonymous1 year ago
The sun is predicted to become a red giant 4.5 billion years from now, thats plenty of time for humans to find a new home