in 2-7 billion years the sun will have run out of hydrogen and expand in size so that it engulfs the earth's orbit, effectively turning the earth into a wasteland devoid of any signs of life
2007-09-28 11:47:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Exactly!!!!!
If we learn how to colonize space, impossible as it may seem, it won't matter if the sun engulfs the earth.
Right?
Right!!!
It is also a matter of survival. Obviously, there are "billions" of people more concerned with survival than you.
2007-09-28 11:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by endpov 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Earth has been around for about 5 billiion years and is expected to last another 5 billion before the sun expands into a red giant. Of course in the last 5 billion years there have been at least two mass extinctions. You have to realize we don't on a little green apple, we live on the SKIN of a little green apple. Mars is a planet and is as old as the Earth, but I'd rather live here. Mars doesn't have an ecosystem.
2007-09-28 12:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worry about it because of my kids, they will still be here between now and when the sun turns the earth into a wasteland. Because we all have a responsibility for the world we share.
2007-09-28 12:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by princess61470 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we don't have that long, the end will happen about next Saturday, after lunch, just before afternoon tea, around 3:57 pm.
At least it'll be nice and warm.
2007-10-01 17:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by fyzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Cute.
People have no sense of humor. Ah, well.
Ooh, ooh, I got it...global warming is the gods' way of getting us to move our butts in learning to accomplish real space travel. Burning all this carbon-based fuel, and wrecking the Earth is just doing what the gods really want us to do!
;-)
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2007-09-28 13:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by nojunk_9 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because that is 5billion years ahead. We might not be here. Global Warming is happening right now.
2007-09-28 12:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in 2-7 billion years, we may very well have the technology to empty the suns waste and refuel it.
2007-09-28 11:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by PD 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well the Earth is doomed before that time.
2007-09-28 13:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Global Warming is affecting us NOW?
2007-09-28 12:06:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the 2-7 billion years inbetween...
2007-09-28 11:50:13 · answer #10 · answered by envoidoftheend 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋