Do you think humans will be able to flee to another planet before this one dies?

Question

Right, just because the Earth will be aroung for billions of years doesn't mean it will inhabitable.

Soory, AROUND for billions of years..

Sorry, sorry. O.K. back to the ????'s

Answer 1

This one has about 4.5 billion years to go so by then, probably yes if we're still around.

Answer 2

This discussion is really the discussion of why we need a manned space program. It isn't national pride, not anymore. Politics and military advantage are still important, but as we learn more about the giant impacts, ice ages, and mass extinctions that this planet has experienced in the past, we should be more eager to say, "here, have a few more bucks to build an escape hatch!"

While this is extremely simplified (for the sake of time), I think it is just as important an issue as global warming--which has only gotten recent attention due to a UN science team and their results, even though we've been trying to tell people for years. What will it take for people to see there are valid extinction threats against humanity? Do we need a small meteor to wipe out New York first? Then will we take it serious?

To answer your question, I think we are like ostriches with our heads in the sand. We don't think about it, and it won't happen. Meanwhile, the US space program is sending people into space in what amounts to a cardboard box wrapped in celephane tape because NASA keeps getting its funding cut. Oh well. Nevermind that rock hurtling toward us, we have to feed people who keep reproducing like rabbits even though they have no food!

Will we get out before it all goes Kablooey? Only if we start thinking seriously about it now. The planet will go on without us for several billion years-- that's exactly my point. It's our butts we have to worry about, not the earth itself.

Answer 3

Not as long as materialism and money run the earth. People wouldn't be arguing over the money required to formulate a way to colonize another planet if "money" and property/land ownership didn't exist. But then again, Christianity says that when Money is done away with and a one world government is placed in charge then jesus is coming back to wipe everything out anyways. And that just sounds so much more realistic than a nuclear world war wiping out the masses.

Answer 4

I hope so. Fleeing after it was destroyed would be pointless, really.

Seriously, If we haven't advanced space travel enough in another 3 billion years to get off this planet, then we deserve to be extinct. Frankly, I think that it would be ridiculous to assume we could out last the dinosaurs. They survived 400 million years; probably because they were not as advanced as us. They could only kill each other one at a time.

Answer 5

It's not likely. None of the other planets are habitable. Food, water, everything would become an issue.

The human race will most likely become extinct sooner than we think. We've got the O-Zone layer deteriorating, as well as global warming impacting us, not to mention an eventual shifting of the poles or an ice age.

Whether it be our own technology or a planetary problem.

Answer 6

as long as we don't ruin ourselves or the planet, we (or our descendants) we finally migrate from this planet and colonise the galaxy. I chuckle each and every time I pay attention human beings communicate with regards to the problems of area trip etc, as quickly as we've been exploring area for little over a million/2 a century! How short-sighted are you able to get! end being idiots and open your minds, human beings. are you able to honestly believe that we are going to nevertheless be pootling around area in rockets in a million years from now? do no longer you think of technologies ought to have moved on from that? this is like the Romans poo-pooing the thought men ought to stroll on the moon, as a results of fact no horse and chariot ought to ever trip quickly adequate to get there! Adam, galaxies collide for all time. Please instruct your self in the previous answering.

Answer 7

You surely mean, "before the human race dies..". Why would the Earth die? It has been around for 4 billion years and the sun is due to last for another few billion.

Why is everybody obsessed with the destruction of the Earth. We may or may not destroy ourselves, but we won't destroy the world.

Get a sense of proportion, please.

Answer 8

I honestly believe that humans will be LONG gone and extinct before this planet dies. Hell, there may even be a whole nother cycle of existence starting from simple bacteria again before that happens, and someone just like you will ask the same question, and become extinct again, before it dies.

Answer 9

I once read a Science fiction novel about the Sol System. the Earth became a garbage world and every one lived in domes on the moon , Mars, the moons of jupiter, etc....pretty dreary story if i remember correct.

Answer 10

first of all i am a catholic and that isnt wat we believe...we dont believe anything about that crap...but to the question i believe we will there are BILLIONS of galaxies out there and we are just a speck of dust in the universe...i believe there isd no dounbt that there is life out there it is just of matter if we will find it or not...but if we are around then...i believe we will be on another planet maybe in another galaxy though...and the planet wont run out ...the sun will explode and it will eat the earth up