Do you think humans (because of tech) will be well off of Earth before the Sun makes our planet uninhabitable?

Question

In other words do you think humans will have advanced far enough in terms of our technology and space travel that we will have found another habitable planet orbiting around another star to live on, and be already on it by the time the Sun expands far enough outward to where the Earth is not livable anymore?

You know its really irritating to me when I ask a question and a few people relpy to it without even answering the damn question

Answer 1

I think that, if we can't make it off the Earth in five billion years, which is when the sun is expected to enter its red giant phase, we don't deserve to go. Being fried by the sun would be a fitting end for us. Actually, though, I'm fairly sure that we'll be out in the galaxy well before that time. I think it will be at most a couple of hundred years before someone figures out interstellar travel.

Answer 2

Because Venus does not have any kind of system to take the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Here on Earth we have plants that help scrub the air clean of CO2 and we also have a water cycle that helps. We are working on removing the most important element of that system by cutting down the rain forests. In the distant past the Earth was uninhabitable because the atmosphere was poisonous. Your whole question shows you are completely ignorant of science in any form.

Answer 3

Humanity has a unique position on this planet, in that we are the first species here that is able to master tehnology to the extent that we can journey into space.

Unfortunately, being the first, and having no examples on other worlds to use as examples, means that we have little idea how long our civilisation will remain coherent enough to retain our technology.

If our civilisation is to persist long enough, we will have to master our own biology and psychlogy before we need to worry about catastrophes on cosmic timescales, because the greatest danger is that we will stop the music here ourselves before the cosmos does.

Human advancement will not necesarily be graphed as a straight ascending line, it is highly probable there will be many dips in the advancement curve before we are able to reach beyond our solar system.

If none of those dips are too steep we will go beyond the solar system before it is too late. If not, at least the next species that inherits this planet will have a previous example of how not to do the civilisation thing, and it will be up to them to rise above themselves to the stars.

Answer 4

If you can read between the lines of sarcasm you will understand that the general consensus is NO. Most likely we will go extinct before that happens.

Here is some hope. In a distant future the human psyche will evolve to allow every body remote-viewing or astral projection, therefore no need for spacecrafts. We might be able to explore the galaxy with our minds.

If we don't kill each other first of course.

Answer 5

Humans as we know them will have been long extinct by the time the Sun destroys our planet. Perhaps, our distant decedents, who would consider us little more then furry vegetables will still be around to monitor and record the events. We have billions of years to go and few spices last more then a few million; so quite a number of species will rise and fall before the end arrives.

Answer 6

Don't worry about it. We have a couple hundred thousand years left in us, then we will have evolved into a very different species. Or gone extinct. "Humans" won't be here that long. Not even close. But that has nothing to do with technology or space flight. It's just a matter of biology.

Answer 7

How long will that take? Billion years? Most likely some other natural disaster will occur before that and we will be in trouble. But given, no natural disasters, no incurable virus, I believe at the rate our technology is developing, we will be able to make it off this rock.

Answer 8

Yes, humans will be far off of Earth...because we destroyed ourselves with the technology.

Answer 9

I would hope, in 5 billion years...

The main worry right at the moment is what we're doing to Earth ourselves.

Answer 10

yes of course

asimov predicted that in 20000 years the man will master space travel in short times