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I have read lots of answers about how the sun will one day get so big that it consumes the Earth, this won't happen for millions of years but almost every answer i read say's that all life on Earth would be killed. My beef with this is that isn't evolution always taking place, so isn't it possible that the human race millions of years from now could still live on Earth but be evolved enough to leave the planet at there discresion?

By this time i would also imagine the humans of this future time would have already spread outward to the other solar systems in our Galaxy.

2006-12-15 07:32:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

Just as humans evolve, technolgy advances maybe not at the same pace but the technolgy from a millions year in the future would be most like nothing we could imagine.

2006-12-15 07:43:05 · update #1

12 answers

Anything you can imagine is possible.

2006-12-15 07:40:03 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0 0

I have a little theory of mine, and that is: Humans won't evolve anymore, unless something really big happens.

This is why: Evolution takes place when a mutation gives some individuals a reproduction advantage over the others, be it by living more time, not getting sick from a particular disease or any other cause. But we humans, intelligent as we are, we all get the same chance to reproduce. Even the most wrecked human can have a child and spread its genes on the population. So evolution just doesn't take place. But that is just socially fair, as we understand it.

So the prime rule of evolution, "Only the strongest survive and reproduce", doesn't take place. But that is just a theory of mine, of course.

Now for the part of the Sun, what will happen is that the Sun will grow so much the earth will be literally inside of it. There is no way a living creature can survive that, because inside of a star the atoms are divided in their components, meaning there is no atoms, only protons, electrons and neutrons scattering around.

But then, long before that happens the human race will have finished the natural resources of this planet and would have gone away, or would have extinguised. So, you should not worry about it. When that happens we humans will be either gone or extinct.

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Miran.

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2006-12-15 07:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Miranto 1 · 0 0

Thats great if they can leave Earth at thier discresion, but that still doesn't change the fact anybody left on Earth will be consumed by fire. Not to mention, Technological advances have nothing to do with Human Biological Evolution. So your question doesn't really make sense

2006-12-15 07:37:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

About 5 billion years ...

It is unlikely we will be able to evolve fast enough to escape an expanding red giant, however who can tell ?

We went from powered flight to the moon in 100 years. In less than a 1,000 years we will reach the stars. Who knows where we will be in 5,000,000,000 years ?

NB. 'Biased' - yes, that's because we are Human (so, rather naturally, we put Humans first). Of course if it turned out Humans could never leave the planet, but say, Ants could leave OK, then I would be the first to promote Ant astronauts)

2006-12-22 07:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0 0

In billions of years, without some intervention, the Earth will be consumed by the Sun. We could also move the planet and buy an extra billion years. Prediction the future of humans is tougher than predicting the future of stars.

2006-12-15 09:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0 0

Everything you can imagine as you just did is true. You paved the way for a dimension in which this willl happen into life.... I hope for you, you'll get to to savor the moment supreme, to meet the Humans inside the Sun

2006-12-15 07:44:52 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Alma of Avalon Grailguard 4 · 0 0

At the rate we are going, the last thing I would worry about is being consumed by the sun millions of years from now. First lets survive terrorism and our melting Arctic.

2006-12-15 07:43:10 · answer #7 · answered by taxman 1 · 0 0

Well I think life on earth would be long gone before the planet was actually physically consumed as climate conditions would no longer allow for it to exist.

2006-12-15 07:40:44 · answer #8 · answered by dovey 3 · 0 0

Your question is rather biased.
Whether humans evolve, leave, or die off, we aren't the only living things on the planet.
Plants, insects, fish, bacteria, mammals, birds, reptiles - we share this world with a lot more non-human life than humans.

2006-12-15 15:03:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

After 5 billion years...who knows what will happen....but I am certain that we, as humans, will be able to leave our loving planet and move somehwere else, and that's a promise...(kill me if that is not true...I won't even be there when the sun is gonna explode...lolz....)

2006-12-15 07:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by AD 4 · 0 0

Well that is one reason some people like, Stephen Hawking and me, support making advances in space flight.

2006-12-15 07:45:26 · answer #11 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

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