Our star the sun is half way through it's life span before it gobbles up the inner planets as it expands using up the last of its fuel. Will the human race evolve enough to be able to colonise other parts of space and escape far enough away to survive as a species or will we destroy ourselves through war or destroy our planets ability to sustain us before we are capable of such feats as to colonise other planets or moons of jupiter or saturn etc..?
2007-12-04 02:36:47 · 27 answers · asked by winter gerzy 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
Arseteroid - i'm bored so i ask the question, but why do you concern yourself with such matters as to answer? You must be even more bored?
2007-12-04 02:46:59 · update #1
Loads of good interesting answers, some think we'll make it some not, some wonder why even concern myself with the thought, & that's the answer: it's just a thought people, something to stimulise the imagination, by the way Angels im fine thank you good to see your both still going strong on here.
2007-12-07 04:35:10 · update #2
Here is an ODD answer for you. When we die our spirit surpasses the sun as we are from far beyond this. We no longer need our physical bodies then, as we can communicate by the speed of 'thought '.
You will only know this is true once you get over yr attachment to your physical self and you become the 'being' that you are in your future. You see whilst you measure time in the way that you do you cannot comprehend all the universe has in store for you. As you know it's all about Quantum physics etc., the rings - string theory. Have you looked at that?
2007-12-04 09:37:16 · answer #1 · answered by Could be happier 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I doubt it. But nothing prevents us from trying. Even now there are so many unresolved things about the universe. and we only keep inventing new words and concepts in our efforts to understand the making of universe. Evolution has also happened in fits and starts and there are so many gaps unexplained so far. The only thing that differentiates a human being from other animals is its brain. Otherwise there is no difference between a human and any other animal. This brain has created and solved many problems and may solve your problem too may be in future.
2007-12-05 16:29:46 · answer #2 · answered by Venkateswara Rao K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where would be going? The nearest star other than the sun is 4 light years away. It hasn't got any planets for us to visit. Even we had a space craft which travelled at a significant fraction of the speed of light, it would still take half a life time getting there and back, and for what?
2007-12-04 04:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
when you say its halfway through its lifespan, do you realize that leaves us about 8 billion years to figure it out?
Mankind and its primitive ancestors have only been here for 5 million years tops. If we survived another 5 million years, it would truely be a miracle in itself. I think the last thing we are worried about is the sun expanding and destroying the earth in 6-8 billion years.
2007-12-04 04:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We will probably develop the technology, before we evolve much further. Technology is developing at an exponential rate because of the internet.
Evolutionary changes takes millions of years to be noticable.
As for us wiping ourselves out before hand, I'm sure its possible, but considering what we have already survived I would say it is unlikely.
2007-12-04 02:56:06 · answer #5 · answered by xenobyte72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If as you say, we do not end up destroying ourselves first, I have no doubt that we will develop the technology to escape from our solar system, find and settle on other planets in other systems. Once we have found suitable systems of course.
However, the way mankind seems hellbent on destroying themselves and this planet at the moment I have grave doubts that we will be around long enough.
Poseidon
2007-12-04 02:44:30 · answer #6 · answered by Poseidon 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Colonize Jupiter, my what a thought... all that cold, and only clouds to build houses on !
I go for destruction.. then reconstruction.
Hey what if Bible is right, billions die, in plagues, battles and earthquakes, then true peacemakers like Jesus come back to do the rebuild.
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth.
Nice thought... must return to my meek classes.
2007-12-04 23:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by eastanglianuk1951 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>Why should I believe in macro-evolution even though it is not observable anywhere else in our solar system? Why should I believe in internal combustion engines even though they are not observable anywhere else in the Solar System? See? I can name any number of phenomena here on Earth that we have not detected anywhere else. That doesn't mean we should stop believing in them entirely. >if complex life forms can evolve from simple ones, and simple ones from single celled organisms Life evolves in whatever direction natural selection pressures force it to evolve in. There is no principle stating that a simple life form cannot likewise evolve from a complex one, or that a multicellular organism can evolve back into a single-celled organism. >If evolution was a reality, wouldn't something evolve on Mars? NASA says the planet's dirt and atmosphere are sterile, but if evolution were true, over the course of millions of years wouldn't something have adapted to survive - just as life has adapted to survive in the harshest climes on Earth? You have to keep in mind that before life can evolve and adapt to an environment, it has to start somewhere. Life on Earth started somewhere, and only became as ubiquitous as it is now as a result of different species finding themselves suited to different environments and then adapting to better fit their environments. Mars is simply not nearly as well suited to life forms developing in the first place as the Earth is. It has a smaller surface area, a much thinner atmosphere, very low temperatures at the surface, and virtually no potential for liquid water to exist on the surface for any great length of time. Furthermore, its interior is colder than that of the Earth and so it has no active plate tectonics and thus no carbon cycle the way the Earth does. It is not a very good place for life to begin. >but this theory of evolution thing is hard for me to swallow, partly because I feel I have to take so much of it on faith. You don't have to take it on faith. Have you heard of these things called 'fossils'? Not to mention microorganisms becoming resistant to medical treatments, along with the spread of variations in genotypes and phenotypes among all organisms, which has absolutely no decent explanation from a creationist perspective. >you can blast me if you want but please don't call me a creationist or an ID'er!!! We don't need to. You already showed yourself up as a creationist simply by using the term 'macroevolution' as if there were actually anything for it to describe. Those of us who accept evolutionary theory and understand it are already aware that no distinction between 'microevolution' and 'macroevolution' actually exists.
2016-05-28 03:28:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I look out the window and see the 'hoodies' in the street, my gut reaction is "No." But we've still got another 5.5 billion years or so, so we may still have a chance. The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but who wants to stay forever in a cradle?
2007-12-04 02:48:02 · answer #9 · answered by tommynocker001 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By the time the Sun expands to consume the inner planets, in another billion years or so, mankind will have long since evolved into something that is not Human.
Long before that, however, I believe, the pressure of over-population will have forced us to colonise outer space. It is something that is technically feasible now. Only the cost prevents us from doing so now.
2007-12-04 02:52:53 · answer #10 · answered by Tim C 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋