Do you think in 2 billion years, Earth will still be alive? Or do you think it will die from natural causes?

Question

If you think it will die from natural causes, what cause?

Answer 1

I think the answer to the question depends on your definition of "alive". Mankind may or may not still be in existence, but earth itself will probably always harbor life of some kind, even if it is just on the bacterial level (barring some sort of killer radiation, but even in that instance something will probably still survive).

The sun isn't set to end its life cycle for another 5-6 billion years, but when it does, the main supplier of life for the planet Earth is going to go into a red giant phase (it is too small to go supernova), which will expand and make the planet too hot to live on. The seas will boil away and most of the atmosphere will escape into space.

So in answer: in my opinion, the Earth will still be alive. Whether there will be any people there to see it is another matter.

Answer 2

Since the earth is NOT alive, it cannot die.

But, in 2 billion years, the earth will probably still exist. It will eventually (in about 5 billion years) be burned up in the sun as the sun turns to a red giant, expands, and consumes the earth.

Of course, this is barring an asteroid collision or Vogon destructor fleet building a hyperspace bypass.

Answer 3

Provided no disaster event occurs such as a major meteor strike of the sun going black hole on us, then yes our planet will be here in 2 million years. Man on the other hand may not be. At the rate we are going we will not have the food to feed the planet 1,000 years from now. A nuclear war will not blow up the planet. It would in a large enough scale end life as we know it on the planet, but Earth would survive and rebound with new forms of life long after the war. The planet can even survive a meteor strike of moderate size, it would take a major sized hit to destroy the planet.

Answer 4

Well, the earth isn't alive; howver, when I was a child, the earth was millions of years old (30 years ago). Now it is billions. I guess I have aged really well, seeing as the age has exploded exponentially. That being the case (flawed logic and all), the earth being billions and billions of years old, it will still be here.

Answer 5

Well, the sun is supposed to be good for another 4 billion years or so.

The only other thing I can think of that would destroy the planet would be a very large meteor strike. That's certainly a possibility, but other than that, the Earth will continue on with or without man or any other life.

Answer 6

There will still be life on Earth in some form-- trees, insects-but mankind? In that vast amount of time we will either have checked ourselves out or evolved to another form. All the knowlege and arts we have now ,will be lost and reborn again and again, until there's no one left to remember. Seems kind of sad, but it's all retained in the Library of Heaven. In 4-5 billion years the sun may burn out, so our thoughts, even at this early stage, should be focused on the Eternal. The ones that won't make it are the ones who say it doesn't exist. Tch.

Answer 7

The earth will still be around. It won't look anything like it does now, though. And we, as a species, won't be here to see it. The sun will have gotten hotter and brighter, and Earth will be more like Venus is now, and Mars will be more like Earth. Any life still here is likely to be some sort of extremophile, that can survive under incredibly hostile conditions.

Answer 8

I think it will still be a live because after some of us die they will be a next live in new people to earth

Answer 9

i think the earth will die not from natural causes in
2 billion years, but from wars and well before that
time frame.

Answer 10

Hi. Earth is not alive now. I think some forms of life may survive or even thrive, but you have to count on evolution.