Do you feel bad for the people who will be on earth when the sun dies?

Question

I have heard numerous times that the earth is to end (not physically, but people are supposed to have a different state of mind) sometime in December of 2012. That doesn't sound realistic. That is only 4 years from now, it would be a much larger deal to everyone and there would be warnings and such everywhere.

My question to you, don't you feel sorry for the humans who will be around in 4-5 billion years from now, who will have to experience the world ending, literally?

Answer 1

name one life-form that has survived for 5 billion years.

even the dinosaurs only hung around for a few 100 million years.

people will be LONG gone by then, probably either by blowing themselves up or (my favorite) death by starvation... not famine, just being too d**n bored to eat.

Answer 2

No,actually I feel sorry for the ones that are living now, and will have to fact a bitter end shortly.

Answer 3

I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who have had 4.5 billion years to find a way to get to another solar system and didn't take the opportunity.

Answer 4

would be awesome to see the world end.

Answer 5

well the only form of life left on earth will probably be mutated bacteria by that time

if homosapiens from Earth still exist, they will probably be elsewhere depending on technology advancements.  

the world, as in our reality, could end any day--just live life like there is no tomorrow

Answer 6

If any civilitation have to die when the central star ends, that is the worst tragedy of the unverse...

Answer 7

Maybe. No need to sorry for that. Every man will dies.

Answer 8

The Sun is getting warmer slowly.  There's no sudden explosion, flare or sudden lack of heat.  They'll adapt for a long time.  Too bad you can't stake your claim now for mountainous Antarctic Real Estate.

But there doesn't seem to be any need to mourn.  We already have the physics to save the Earth.  One idea is that you take an asteroid, and put it on this funky figure 8 orbit between the Earth and Jupiter.  You steal orbital energy from Jupiter and give it to the Earth to expand it's orbit.  The Earth stays cooler, and misses being swallowed by the Red Giant phase.  Then, when the Sun contracts to become a White Dwarf, you reverse the process.  The Earth gets trillions of years.

And if our descendants are too stupid to do this, i don't feel too sorry for them.  I'm working hard to send them to college. I get no respect.  Ungrateful brats.

Answer 9

Actually, I think 4-5 billion years from now, if humans still exist, they will have the technology for space travel. They will simply find another planet to live on when the sun dies, if they haven't already by that time.

Answer 10

Personally, I highly doubt the human race will still be around when the sun dies out.

Answer 11

Sure, I feel "sorry" for all life, every one here, AND in the past and future. Because ALL who live WILL die and we perceive "death" as a negative thing. But that's the nature of life and my personal philosophy is that life never (really) "ends" we just change forms and ultimately go back to the "ONE", the singularity. So everything will work out in the end;)

"Why can't the religious imagine that what they seek can actually exist?"

Answer 12

any life and intelligence who will witness this event are going to be as different from us as we are from bacteria, (because of evolution). . . http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3qF26MbYgO...

Answer 13

There probably won't be much life on earth around that time considering the sun is getting hotter and hotter the closer it gets to death and the habitable zone moves out further and further.

Answer 14

no they will be long dead before the sun stops shining they will probably be torched to death when the sun becomes a red giant and envelopes the earth

Answer 15

That's nice that you care so much.  I've noticed that the Bible says that the "earth endures forever, and generations are everlasting, and world without end, amen."  So maybe God will regenerate our sun by then, or give us a new one.  Either way, why are all the Christians saying there is an end coming soon?  Don't they believe what the Bible says?  

I've always understood that the "end times" the Bible speaks of is talking about the time of the end of the old covenant, between 30-70ad, which culminated in the destruction of the Jerusalem temple used for animal sacrifices.  This timeframe would harmonize with the time statements given in the Bible, such as "soon, shortly, without delay, at the door, the last hour" etc.

Answer 16

Life itself has only been around for about 3 billion years.  in 4 more billion years the Earth is predicted to be void of life and look alot like mars because tectonic plates will have stopped. By then either humans will have become extinct or left the planet behind.

Answer 17

This is a good question - you care about future generations.  That's good.

People who say there will be no people around then are missing the point - there will be some lifeforms or other (and it *may* be us) who will be the last on Earth, whether in the time you are referring to of before.

Answer 18

Faesson your tottaly correct

AS WE NO OF THERE MIGHT BE SOME TYPE OF "FORM" of life that Will begin Anyways I Dont acuttaly i feel sorry for us right now..WITH OUR a*****e presdindnt Haha ... obama o'8!!

ok but nothin lives for ever but God & Jesus

AND SCIENTESITS DONT NO ANY SHIOT ABOUT THE END OF TIMES :/

Answer 19

Actually, the sun is gradually getting hotter and within 'only' on billion years, will be hot enough to evaporate all of the water on earth.  But... in answer to your question, it is very unlikely human civilization will last that long anyway.  The earth has undergon many extinctions already and will experience it again.  We have only been here a small fraction of the time that other, now extinct, species were dominate.

It is enevitable for us too, especially considering we are also the first species that is, not only capable of, but actually expediting it's own extinction.  We are not even looking at, or even considerating, how were are affecting the planet and surviving for the next 1 billion years.  We are not even looking all that seriously at how we are affecting the next 100 years.  Especially in the area of future overpopulation and the earthly resources we are already exploiting that will not be around for future generations.

No.. I don't feel bad for the humans that will be around in 1 billion years.. I feel bad for the one's who will be around in 100 years.

Answer 20

Hon, in 4-5 billion years, there won't be anything human still on Earth. We will have moved on by then, both by diaspora, and by evolution.