The sun will eventually die out in 5 million years; how will this affect our species?

Answer 1

Actually, it's 5 *billion* years - and by then the Earth will also have slowed down to almost a halt (the rotation is slowing down as we speak - it's natural and very gradual).
By then, our species would not exist - we may kill ourselves off in far less time. And an Earth day would be so long (due to the slow rotation) that all life forms would have to be able to endure extreme heat. Even then, the death of the sun would be death of life on this planet, no matter how well-adapted.

Answer 2

I'm not sure your numbers are really that accurate however....

In every way imaginable really.

The process of photosynthesis can not take place without the sun and therefore plant life will be no more.

This means no fruit, vegetables or, as time passes, oil and coal.

the use of water as kinetic or solar energy will be no more also.

but maybe by this stage outside fruit plantations or vegetable gardens will be a thing of the past anyway through global warming and increased pollution.

who knows really. I guess what I'm saying is that maybe in 5 million years time the earth will be at a stage where there isn't much vegetation anyway, maybe the air won't be OK to breathe, maybe solar power will be a joke of the past.

Therefore the death of the sun might be something humans could evolve into. Our eyesight may change, our food resources, our energy resources and things like seasons, day and night and how to define the beginning and end of a day.

But maybe the species will be ready for this due to pollution and global warming destroying almost everything anyway.

Answer 3

Yes the sun will eventually "die out", and it will probably be more like 5 billion years. How will this affect our species? Well, the same way it will affect every other species.

There are a couple ways our star can "die". The big way, or the small way. The big way: a supernova that will essentially blow us all up. The small way: the sun collapses on itself and no longer produces nuclear energy. Which is quite necessary to our survival. Basically, when the sun dies, we'll die. I just hope we all go out the big way. Nothing like a great exit, right?

Answer 4

FIrst off, I'm not sure that humans would still exist in 5 million years.

If humans were still alive when the sun dies out, we (along with any other life on earth) would eventually die. The lack of heat would result in the earth becoming too cold for any species to live.

Answer 5

The sun expands and then eventually shrinks back down to the size of say the Earth which is reffered to as a dwarf. In this case if humanity is still limited to only living on Earth then mankind will slowly burn off the planet as the sun expands. In theory the sun will expand to the point where its surface reaches the orbit of Pluto.

Answer 6

...do we even have technologies progressed adequate to do something approximately it? interior the 30s and 40s, they thought we'd have flying automobiles by employing now. we've not even switched to a distinctive option source of potential for automobiles. do we even exist in 500 million years? might desire to this planet make it that a procedures with how rapidly we are dealing with that's aspects and trashing that's floor and ecosystem? at present value, we purely have approximately 40 two extra years till now we run out of oil, and we count on oil. and additionally you purely know that value is going to pass up, so quite that's extra approximately 20 years? there are various things that be certain what is going to take place in 500 million years. you are going to be able to desire to wager, yet with factors like the above, no matter what you're saying, you is generally way off. ideally, it would be severe-high quality if shall we attain the stars, and pass faraway from this loss of life device, and make a sparkling domicile someplace else in universe. For it to be purely as widespread as shifting from one u . s . a . to a distinctive.

Answer 7

Without the sun every living things on earth would die.
Could the human race survive the next 1 million year.

Everyone on Yahoo answers are answering Dr. Steve Hawking's question "Could (we) survive the next 100 years. The question is under social science.

Answer 8

When the sun dies, all life on planet earth will be dead. There will be no species to speak of because when the the sun dies, it will suck up everything in it's path first, flattening planets because of the heavy density and then explode like a million nuclear bombs.

Answer 9

If we are not out of the solar system by that time, we are doomed. The sun will expand and consume at least the inner three planets before becoming a white dwarf.

Answer 10

Well if it becomes a red giant at the end of its life cycle, you can kiss not only our species, but the entire planet goodbye. It'll be engulfed by the sun. We should probably invest in real estate on another planet...say...Pluto.