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185 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Mar \ on: When will humans start living on another planet/moon? earth
Wow, that's quite a distribution of answers.
I do think Earth is a forever home for humanity, but I also expect there will be a lunar research base at some point. We have permanent research colonies in Antarctica already and the space station has been continuously inhabited for a long time now.
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46 sats \ 7 replies \ @kr OP 11 Mar
at some point won’t earth get swallowed up by the sun?
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119 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 11 Mar
You might be more bullish on humanity than I am if you think that will be the binding constraint.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 11 Mar
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46 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 11 Mar
Hmmm... They estimate that to be about 7.59 billion years away. Billion with a B.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 11 Mar
It's quite an extrapolation of a 10,000 year old trend.
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46 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 12 Mar
Alright, I take that 7.59 figure back. It's from a quick search engine search while I distracted myself from work with SN. But upon further looking at more sources online, they all seem to point to billions of years before Earth becomes engulfed by the Sun. We could be fucked much sooner though, probably several hundred million years from now from increased luminosity of the Sun, causing a rise in solar radiation. But only fucked if humanity is still around and still haven't been able to leave the Solar system.
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46 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 12 Mar
By then maybe we will be able to build giant dyson sphere around the Sun that will reduce sunlight coming to our planet.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 12 Mar
If we still exist by then, and we did not have to endure some sort of catastrophe we couldn't handle, I wouldn't be surprised if we will be consuming entire stars as our primary source of energy.
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