If we don't destroy the world be4 the sun (5 billion years), will we b advanced enough to leave the Earth?

Question

Just imagine our descendants leaving earth and going to live on a distant planet

Answer 1

Don't worry about this cos human race will be wipe out on this planet a long long before the sun will be blow up!

Answer 2

We should be it's only been in this three quarters of a century we have started high-technology so space hotels and space trips and space stations are being prepared, made and used. So that was over 10 years we will certainly improve over the next few 100 years and even centuries we will improve and should be advanced enough. So space travel technology is improving for later advanced space travel, space stations are fine for living on different planets and moons, and space-stations are fine for living in space so I think we would be advanced soon enough before that.
If it's global warming your worried about then it's just a thing for governments to divert people to cover up things. It's freezing here and warm down there. I mean there is solutions to greenhouse gases and pollution although the warming of the world is just an exaggeration.
If it's the large asteroid 2003 QQ47 is frightening people we are advanced enough to go to the moon and Mars if the worst comes to the worst. If it hits it wouldn't matter enough to us as we have missiles to break it down, nuclear devices, impacters and lasers and other asteroids can be diverted to deflect this and shuttles and rockets can blow it out the way so I believe that if mankind or the new owner of the planet prevents disaster to the planet so it probably would survive until the end of the sun, even then technology may make a sheild to even stop that, but I don't know.

Answer 3

We are advanced enough to leave the Earth now as we have sent people to the moon. The next space race is looking to be gearing up between America & China as well to set the first Moon Base up on the Moon and claim the best positions first. Unfortunately however their are many problems to overcome before intergalactic travel can even be considered. Indeed... local travel within our own solar system is much more complex than many people realise.

A manned mission to Mars for instance looks less likey in the near future because in the time taken to get there it is almost a certainty that the crew would have been subjected to very deadly cosmic radiation from solar flares that we currently have absolutely no way of shielding against. If you want to move across larger distances still you need to start thinking about adding artificial gravity to prevent the atrophy of muscle structure. You also need to look into either 100% efficiency in recycling air or an economic way of generating a reliable supply on ship.

If these problems are solved then we need to find a source of power for our space craft that are efficient, safe and also repairable (given the time they would have to function correctly for). As you can tell from our desperate struggle to look for more oil... we are not exactly making fast progress while dollars can still be squeezed out of our dying planet.

If you want to travel at extreme speeds (such as star trek et al) then you need to either spend a very long time accelerating to these speeds or else invent the "inertial dampener" to prevent splatting everyone on board against the back wall.... this being purely "star trek science" is not likely to be invented any time in the forseeable future (some things just aren't possible).

The list goes on and on and when it comes down to it the chances of the human race surviving 5 billion years are exceptionally slim given the average life span of an Earth originated species ..... (and that would be the ones that don't hate each other, argue ceaselessly over theology and stock pile enough deadly arsenal to wipe out every inch of the planet several times over).

Answer 4

Well, I think we are more talented at destroying than we are creating, so if I had to guess at our destiny, I would guess destruction instead of advancing beyond our planet. However, even if we started devoting research toward interplanetary travel, I find it doubtful that we would establish ships advanced enough to reach a habitable planet. Despite its presence in science-fiction, I think faster-than-light speed is theoretically impossible, and so it would make it impossible for us to reach habitable planets in a lifetime. Even an intergenerational ship would have to carry enough air to last for a very long time, and where would we get all that air and how much would you need? Perhaps we could think of a way of creating air out of more basic elements, but I doubt it. I think such a mission is doomed to failure, because people would run out of essential resources before reaching an otherwise impossible to reach destination. I take it this way... all things are doomed to die. Plants, animals, humans, and even the universe itself. We may imagine some form of immortality, always some way to avoid death, but it's just a fantasy. The end will always come, eventually, and the most we can do is to delay it... and we would be lucky to delay it for as long as it takes for the sun to turn into a red giant.

Answer 5

Definitely. Technology grows at an exponential rate. The more mankind discovers, they can use those discoveries to aid them in other fields. Proof of this is that technology has really taken off in the past 100 years...but has grown slowly before that. So its safe to say that in the next few hundred years probably (a thousand at the most), we'll be out of here. And unfortunatley, at the rate we're using up Earth's resources, we'll won't have 5 billion years to find another home.

Answer 6

Doubt it,One.I dont think there's really that much mileage left either in the earth or in us as a species,after all it appears that everything has a "sell by" date attached to it and we simply may run out of evolutionary oomph long before we get to that point .
The dinosaurs got off after abillion or so years,we dont have anything like their diversity,sperm levels are dropping at a scary rate all over Europe,the male chromosome doesnt friggin evolve and were stuffing the enviroment so fast that we dont even know how fast things are going extinct.

Answer 7

Of course! We have the technological means to leave the Earth and live in space, or on The Moon, or Mars, or the Asteroids right now. Only one small problem: We can afford to send only a very few.

Answer 8

I would imagine we would be capable of leaving the earth and colonising other planets well before that time perhaps within the next 1000 years as far as our own solor system is concerned.

Answer 9

If we have 5 billion years, and we've already been on the moon, we've already left earth, now haven't we. We are already working on plans to land people on mars, although we have a few years until then.

Answer 10

Building my wings as we speak. Reckon the government already have a space bus for the 'privilaged people' and an alternative planet lined up.