You've just said that, at most, I only have 5 billion more years left to live! I don't call that light-hearted ! God knows what the wife'll say when I tell 'er.
(Irenes, I like it . To be fair, that's much nicer than what we call you lot. I feel bad now. )
This forum has rules. You think all our names for bottom feeders can be spoken aloud??
Computers will have become so powerful we'll be able to upload or at least recreate our 'minds' and travel from world to world by a kind of internet, replicating the tech and sending it further each time. Much more practical than chugging lots of difficult to sustain life forms millions of miles. If we encounter a world with suitable conditions, we could create DNA and kick start life all over again there, if we were still bothered.
Based on me being pessimistic >:( Any news bulletin will show people fighting each other, violence, famine, death disease etc. the human race consumes vast amounts of earths resources so it needs to either stop expanding or change its consumption levels.
The Earth only has about 1 billion years left as an habitable planet for humans anyway. It will be a charred cinder long before the inevitable final explosion of the Sun.
Based on me being pessimistic >:( Any news bulletin will show people fighting each other, violence, famine, death disease etc. the human race consumes vast amounts of earths resources so it needs to either stop expanding or change its consumption levels.
Humans have always fought each other- we've had the nuke since the 40's, and yet we're all still here. Fact is, we are living in a relatively stable period.
Stop being pessimistic, history shows us, humans, even with all their potential barbarity, are in all probability here for a good long while yet, and I do like to think the world is slowly becoming more civilised and progressive, even if that process is not always linear.
No, if the solar luminosity carries on increasing at it's current levels then in 1 billion years it'll reach a level 10% higher than today's values which will raise the average surface temperature of the planet to somewhere around the 47°C-50°C mark. That's after the oceans have boiled away into the atmosphere creating a run-away greenhouse effect.
There is becoming less and less planet to live on as the world population continues to grow. Which in turn leads to less resources.
There is so much wrong with the planet already another 100-200 years and i think we'll have killed each other to the extent where only a few million live sparsely.
That is unless the Pigeon Flu wipes us out next year.
There is becoming less and less planet to live on as the world population continues to grow. Which in turn leads to less resources.
There is so much wrong with the planet already another 100-200 years and i think we'll have killed each other to the extent where only a few million live sparsely.
That is unless the Pigeon Flu wipes us out next year.
You mean like all the other flu's and catastrophes the media scaremonger us into believing will wipe us out, and end up being nothing more than a flash in the pan?
I've no idea why you think we'd suddenly die out in 200 years either. Over population will not wipe out the human race, it'll just make things more difficult for the people living on it, up until the point we end up having to make more effective use of the space we have.
In the absolute worst case scenario, and I'm talking extremely severe over-population, I'm guessing measures will be taken to prevent further population growth, sort of like Chinas one child per family policy. Over population is a sign humans are doing a little too well, if anything.
No, if the solar luminosity carries on increasing at it's current levels then in 1 billion years it'll reach a level 10% higher than today's values which will raise the average surface temperature of the planet to somewhere around the 47°C-50°C mark. That's after the oceans have boiled away into the atmosphere creating a run-away greenhouse effect.
Do you two really think that human life will still be sustainable on Earth in a billion years. The way we are treating and exploiting the planet so far, I'd be surprised if we are still here in 10,000 years time, let alone a billion years. Also, there is almost certainly going to be an ELE in the next billion years, such as a huge asteroid hitting earth.
Do you two really think that human life will still be sustainable on Earth in a billion years. The way we are treating and exploiting the planet so far, I'd be surprised if we are still here in 10,000 years time, let alone a billion years. Also, there is almost certainly going to be an ELE in the next billion years, such as a huge asteroid hitting earth.
I've heard of optimism and then there is this.
NX-74205 was talking about the Earth as a hypothetical habitable planet, a concept which is clearly lost on you.
You can speculate on an inordinately large time frame if you wish, but at least recognise that is all it is.
I was thinking the other day that at some point the Sun will explode & life as we know it will cease to be. There will be nothing.
So i googled it just to put my mind at rest & we've only got roughly 5 billion years left As my mum would say before a holiday. It'll come around before you know it!
Fast forward 4.999 Billion years.
How do you solve a problem like the end of the world?
I was thinking the other day that at some point the Sun will explode & life as we know it will cease to be. There will be nothing.
So i googled it just to put my mind at rest & we've only got roughly 5 billion years left As my mum would say before a holiday. It'll come around before you know it!
Fast forward 4.999 Billion years.
How do you solve a problem like the end of the world?
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By then, warp speed and transporters would have been invented
The Federation will stretch across the galaxy
Who needs Earth, when you can live in Risa, the pleasure planet?
Yes, but the underlying physics and distances involved are rather different.
It's 4.3 billion light years to the next closest star. That's a rather different proposition than transatlantic flight.
It only seems impossible because we currently don't know of a way to travel faster than the speed of light. A man from the past whose fastest known form of transport was horse wouldn't believe us if we told him that we have the ability now to travel faster than the speed of sound. I think faster than light travel is possible but we just don't know how to manage it yet.
Do you two really think that human life will still be sustainable on Earth in a billion years. The way we are treating and exploiting the planet so far, I'd be surprised if we are still here in 10,000 years time, let alone a billion years. Also, there is almost certainly going to be an ELE in the next billion years, such as a huge asteroid hitting earth.
I've heard of optimism and then there is this.
Are you incapable of understanding what I posted? No, I don't think that Earth could sustain Human life in a billion years, go and read my previous posts again! Or, if you're having trouble understanding such a simple concept, do you want me to explain it in even simpler terms?
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This forum has rules. You think all our names for bottom feeders can be spoken aloud??
btw. Irene was the name of Paul Trollopes dog.
Yeah, not sure how that billion slipped in there. Regardless, it's a f*cking long way.
http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/blog/2012/06/24/life-earth-final-act-sorry-guys-we%E2%80%99ve-missed-most-show
...... people like frank tipler and freeman dyson have interesting ideas about existing beyond the heat death of the universe .....
Based on?
Based on me being pessimistic >:( Any news bulletin will show people fighting each other, violence, famine, death disease etc. the human race consumes vast amounts of earths resources so it needs to either stop expanding or change its consumption levels.
Knock a few zeros off that.
Humans have always fought each other- we've had the nuke since the 40's, and yet we're all still here. Fact is, we are living in a relatively stable period.
Stop being pessimistic, history shows us, humans, even with all their potential barbarity, are in all probability here for a good long while yet, and I do like to think the world is slowly becoming more civilised and progressive, even if that process is not always linear.
No, if the solar luminosity carries on increasing at it's current levels then in 1 billion years it'll reach a level 10% higher than today's values which will raise the average surface temperature of the planet to somewhere around the 47°C-50°C mark. That's after the oceans have boiled away into the atmosphere creating a run-away greenhouse effect.
You're wrong, Earth has at least a billion years habitability left. Scientists currently estimate it to be around 1.75 billion years.
There is so much wrong with the planet already another 100-200 years and i think we'll have killed each other to the extent where only a few million live sparsely.
That is unless the Pigeon Flu wipes us out next year.
You mean like all the other flu's and catastrophes the media scaremonger us into believing will wipe us out, and end up being nothing more than a flash in the pan?
I've no idea why you think we'd suddenly die out in 200 years either. Over population will not wipe out the human race, it'll just make things more difficult for the people living on it, up until the point we end up having to make more effective use of the space we have.
In the absolute worst case scenario, and I'm talking extremely severe over-population, I'm guessing measures will be taken to prevent further population growth, sort of like Chinas one child per family policy. Over population is a sign humans are doing a little too well, if anything.
Do you two really think that human life will still be sustainable on Earth in a billion years. The way we are treating and exploiting the planet so far, I'd be surprised if we are still here in 10,000 years time, let alone a billion years. Also, there is almost certainly going to be an ELE in the next billion years, such as a huge asteroid hitting earth.
I've heard of optimism and then there is this.
NX-74205 was talking about the Earth as a hypothetical habitable planet, a concept which is clearly lost on you.
You can speculate on an inordinately large time frame if you wish, but at least recognise that is all it is.
You could join my countdown thread.
He was talking from a human perspective.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=71337632#post71337632
Yes, but not for humans IMO (but we'll probably take out most of the rest of life on Earth when we go under), as was explained earlier.
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By then, warp speed and transporters would have been invented
The Federation will stretch across the galaxy
Who needs Earth, when you can live in Risa, the pleasure planet?
i've just booked a bloody holiday then too!!!
It only seems impossible because we currently don't know of a way to travel faster than the speed of light. A man from the past whose fastest known form of transport was horse wouldn't believe us if we told him that we have the ability now to travel faster than the speed of sound. I think faster than light travel is possible but we just don't know how to manage it yet.
Are you incapable of understanding what I posted? No, I don't think that Earth could sustain Human life in a billion years, go and read my previous posts again! Or, if you're having trouble understanding such a simple concept, do you want me to explain it in even simpler terms?