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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?

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  • 1 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!

  • 1 year ago

    Everything will die eventually, even the universe itself.  The reason is the second law of thermodynamics.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    sure, if we haven't made ourselves extinct long before then

  • 1 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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  • 1 year ago

    Yes that's true, and as for humans we could go extinct any day now.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 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 7
    1 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 7
    1 year ago

    You've gotten the factual answers. The other answer is that it's nothing to lose sleep over.

  • 1 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.

  • Anonymous
    1 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

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