We have to leave this planet - consider this

[Taverner]

Eventually, billions of years from now (time flies, remember?) the Earth will be engulfed by the sun.

It will expand, and eat us, Mercury, Venus and Mars.

Why not start working on this now?

Trust me, we won't want to rush this one....

[sakabatou]

1. We'll probably live one one of Jupiter's moons.

[Taverner]

2. Sounds good nt

[sakabatou]

3. Maybe we'll see The Blue Crow bar

[MilesColtrane]

4. You're assuming that we'll still be around then.

It is more likely that humans will experience an extinction level event long before the sun becomes a red giant.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. It depends on what you mean by "we".

A mere million years ago, our ancestors didn't look much like us. They were smaller, hairier, less intelligent, but physically stronger than we are. We would probably call them apes.

Likewise, our descendants (if any) a million years from now won't look much like us. They will constitute one or more species that are more intelligent than we are. The dominant species will probably keep the others (if any) in zoos.

Colonization of the galaxy should probably be left to the life forms that are fittest to survive space travel. These life forms will be created either by us or by our descendants. They may have integrated circuits rather than brains, electrical motors rather than muscles, etc. They could be designed to live for thousands of years. Such organisms would thrive in the vacuum of interstellar space. From their point of view, five billion years will be plenty of time to spread out from our planet and fill the galaxy with intelligent life that is derived from us in one way or another.

In the process, they may very well meet up with other forms of intelligent life. Won't that be a blast!

[Chan790]

6. Our destiny is Borg?

Ouch. Buzzkill.

[SkatmanRoth]

7. Sounds like a good line to use on salesmen pushing Timeshares as investment property

[MrScorpio]

8. Here's the theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBfDtudLgDE

[Lionel Mandrake]

13. If you like Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson,

listen to this instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwmDNPegnM

[RedCloud]

9. Sadly you could be mistaken. Long before this comes to pass...

Our sun and galaxy for that matter will be consumed by Andromeda. Our sun dying from old age? Perhaps not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4128018/Milky-Way-and-Andromeda-will-collide-sooner-than-expected.html

[RedCloud]

10. Does the link stink?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4128018/Milky-Way-and-Andromeda-will-collide-sooner-than-expected.html

Here's one that indicates a theft may occur before two billion years are up.

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/news070514-3.html

[Bucky]

11. I'm not worried as long as the Sun doesn't eat Uranus

:rofl:

[RedCloud]

12. Why would it eat a giant gas ball?

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