What if we manage to survive and continue to thrive on a civilized level until the day our sun goes kaboom. What do you think the final year of humanity will be like considering the fact that all of those people at that time will know that they absolutely undeniably only have one year left to live?
This is also assuming that we are still on earth and that we have not found a technology capable of escaping or preventing this problem.
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scientists around the world immediately try to figure out how to make things work. a select few will be allowed to live, the rest will riot, be drunk, commit suicide, etc. all resources on the planet will be devoted to being able to self-heat ourselves, giving a purpose to a LOT of the nukes we have in order to buy time and figure out a remedy/destroy the planet ourselves.
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I cannot imagine any form of technology that could provide anywhere near the amount of sustaining energy it would take to survive.
Honestly I think the best bet for outlasting the sun would involve some kind perfectly sealed off environment. Like some sort of thick steel dome the size of a very small village. And what like enough stored energy to power the environment for as long as it would last?
Would that work? Would a perfectly sealed dome be able to trap in the heat and protect it from the harsh chill of a world unaided by sunlight?
And even then it's a temporary fix.
But as for the state of the world? I think "completely shot to hell" would just about describe it. Complete and utter chaos.
I couldn't even imagine it. If the Earth and humanity even last that long it will be so far into the future that nobody can really have any kind of idea what life would be like.
If we haven't colonized other solar systems by that point, we're done.
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Whose to say that by the time that happens, we don't have the means to travel to other planets and inhabit them? Heck, we could just evacuate earth and call it a day.
Yeah this is a very stupid question for several reasons.
1: The sun is never going to explode
2: It will be too hot on Earth for life to exist in just a few hundred million years, while the Sun won't die until 5 billion years from now.
3: We already have the technology to escape Earth if something horrible should happen. In 1000 years it won't even be an issue. In 10000 years we are probably on our way to other star systems. And in a million years, not to mention a hundred million... well look at how far we've come in the last 100 years, by that time we can probably create a new universe to live in if we haven't wiped ourselves out.
From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #017 Yeah this is a very stupid question for several reasons.
1: The sun is never going to explode
2: It will be too hot on Earth for life to exist in just a few hundred million years, while the Sun won't die until 5 billion years from now.
3: We already have the technology to escape Earth if something horrible should happen. In 1000 years it won't even be an issue. In 10000 years we are probably on our way to other star systems. And in a million years, not to mention a hundred million... well look at how far we've come in the last 100 years, by that time we can probably create a new universe to live in if we haven't wiped ourselves out.
Pretty much this, except I think your timelines are a bit off. I'd be surprised if weren't venturing outside of our solar system in 1000 years.
Obviously we WILL have technology capable of going to other planets and inhabiting them by that point. And then we will create a New Earth. And there will be cat people. Not the sexy kind unfortunately. But people will still marry them. And their children will look suspiciously like kittens. Literally.
Obviously we WILL have technology capable of going to other planets and inhabiting them by that point. And then we will create a New Earth. And there will be cat people. Not the sexy kind unfortunately. But people will still marry them. And their children will look suspiciously like kittens. Literally.
whoever you are, you ought to post more.
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From: Forceful_Dragon | #003 I cannot imagine any form of technology that could provide anywhere near the amount of sustaining energy it would take to survive. If you could imagine it, it wouldn't be super futuristic technology.
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Pretty much this, except I think your timelines are a bit off. I'd be surprised if weren't venturing outside of our solar system in 1000 years.
We won't be going outside the solar system until we invent the hyperdrive.
And then nobody will volunteer to do it because everyone knows the hyperdrive always malfunctions at the worst possible moment.
I don't see it happening within 1000 years.
We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
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From: redrocket | #033 We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
Well that's never happening since we've pretty much given up on space because the tech isn't there.
The tech isn't there because we've given up on space.
The cycle.
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From: Vandesdelca | #026 Obviously we WILL have technology capable of going to other planets and inhabiting them by that point. And then we will create a New Earth. And there will be cat people. Not the sexy kind unfortunately. But people will still marry them. And their children will look suspiciously like kittens. Literally. A+ post would read again.
Earth, completely evacuated millions, maybe even...nay LIKELY billions of years before this occurs will have it's destruction broadcast live to all 53,596 universes via omnivision direct ocular projection technology.
We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
I don't think you're fully aware of the distances involved here.
With today's space engines it would take ~80 000 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima centauri.
We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
I don't think you're fully aware of the distances involved here.
With today's space engines it would take ~80 000 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima centauri.
Using engines we've actually built before sure. But that's misleading because no one has attempted to actually build an interstellar ship yet. Theoretically, we already have the technology to build various nuclear designs that would be capable of accelerating a ship up to a substantial fraction of light speed. The main obstacle would be convincing humanity to sacrifice the enormous resources that would be required to build such a ship. Not to mention convincing them to allow huge quantities of nuclear fuel to be launched into space. But nonetheless these are obstacles that we could at least potentially overcome, unlike the prospect of waiting for hyperdrive which we are nowhere close to getting with current understanding.
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It's more likely we die due to a stray asteroid than anything else. Not a whole lot people know this but we just barely dodge one last month. And NASA only caught eye of it 4 days before. It was 10 times the size of Tunguska, which is this thing that annihilated an entire rainforest and left a crater that formed a river over 40 years. Had it hit it would've wiped out an entire country.
Visiting exoplanets is still far off. Even at great speeds it would still take years. And the ship would have to be enormous, too big of a project for a bunch of puny humans, imo. Knowing us, puny patetic humans, we'd just argue about it before it being too late to react to whatever kills us off.
And light speed space travel is just an unrealistic concept, period.
It's more likely we die due to a stray asteroid than anything else. Not a whole lot people know this but we just barely dodge one last month. And NASA only caught eye of it 4 days before. It was 10 times the size of Tunguska, which is this thing that annihilated an entire rainforest and left a crater that formed a river over 40 years. Had it hit it would've wiped out an entire country.
That article isn't making that out to be a country killer.
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