Scientists reveal what we will need to do to survive doomsday

News.com AU ^ | May 9, 201611:16am | George Harrison,The Sun

[aquila48]

“In around 500 million years, scientists believe that the Sun’s expansion will leave our planet completely uninhabitable, “

Whew! I was worried there for a while...

[DCBryan1]

Stay put and wait for the government.

LOL....Immortan Chelsea! Immortan Chelsea!

[DH]

In around 500 million years, scientists believe that the Sun’s expansion will leave our planet completely uninhabitable!!!!!!!!!!

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What an absolutely stupid article. Stop and think: In about another 100 years the earth’s population will exceed its ability to feed those who are here. And....we are worried what the population will be in 500,000,000 years??????

In 500 million years all of humanity will be reduced to democrats who now walk on all fours, poop on the ground and still vote for democrats no matter what.

[piytar]

So stupid to worry about things that far out in the future.

Look at how America has transformed technology in a 240 years.

If we are still around in even a few thousand years, this will be a minor issue. By then, we’ll have cracked interstellar travel (sub-light or superluminal speeds), colonized a huge chunk of the solar system, and be able to use technology to survive just about anywhere and in any environment.

Just silliness.

[piytar]

Oh yeah, and the way things look, HE might be coming back a LOT sooner than that. Then all these things REALLY don’t matter.

PS For those who didn’t catch it, “HE” is Christ.

[catnipman]

“In around 500 million years, scientists believe that the Sun’s expansion will leave our planet completely uninhabitable, with conditions so unforgiving that the Earth will return to being the scorched, lifeless lump of rock it once was. “

Mayor De Blasio needs to get busy right now raising thousands of trillions of dollars to build a dome over New York City to prevent such catastrophic climate change from damaging his city.

[GingisK]

Yeah, anyone concerned about something that is 500 billion years out is just plain irrational.

[DCBryan1]

Mayor De Blasio needs to get busy right now raising thousands of trillions of dollars to build a dome over New York City to prevent such catastrophic climate change from damaging his city.

The Russians are already starting on a domed city PROJEKT

[Billthedrill]

Come on now. It wouldn't be a proper Doomsday if people could survive to talk about it, now would it? It's be a sort of wimpy semi-Doomsday with a leading Hollywood actor and a stirring theme and a whole lot of CGI. That's not my kind of Doomsday at all. My kind of Doomsday involves a lump of burned ash that once was the Earth spiralling into an all-consuming black hole through a galaxy-sized mist of acid, razor blades, and that stuff that peels the goo off your bathtub grout. Now that's a Doomsday.

[GraceG]

We should colonize the asteroid belt, easier access to resources than those inside the gravity wells of the moon and mars.

Leave the liberals on the earth to hug the trees and not eat animals, if they try to export communism, we can just drop some rocks on their heads.

[bgill]

[Charles Martel]

That's not my kind of Doomsday at all. My kind of Doomsday involves a lump of burned ash that once was the Earth spiralling into an all-consuming black hole through a galaxy-sized mist of acid, razor blades, and that stuff that peels the goo off your bathtub grout. Now that's a Doomsday.

Yep. Short movie, though.

[BatGuano]

I have accidentally hit the Earth. In an attempt to hit my, teed up, golf ball, I hit the earth first. The ball only went about 100 yards but the Earth stood still!

[The Toll]

Why would anyone want to avoid it?

Every time I use the Drive Through at McDonalds I wind up praying for an asteroid strike.

[zeugma]

In around 500 million years

I've always understood that the sun had a couple of billion years left before it started to get wanky. Either way, I do not think it's a problem we should be concerned with at the moment, unless you're a science fiction writer.

[VRWCmember]

Wait, you mean earth will be uninhabitable because of the SUN and not because of human carbon output? I thought the science was settled on this matter. I’m so confused.

[Hot Tabasco]

However, there is still hope for Earth’s future inhabitants,

20 years from now we will likely be back to the stone age. Fortunately those folks left will have access to all the books we have today if they haven't been destroyed and put on disks.......

[BenLurkin]

[Ancesthntr]

Let’s see, physically moving an entire planet...err, no, seems a bit too much effort.

How about downloading every consciousness into robots. Uh, no thanks, computers aren’t perfect, and you never know what backdoors or hacks may be there.

How about Door #3: GTFO! To my way of thinking, it is a WHOLE lot easier to take humanity itself and disperse it in 1,000 different directions (and star systems) to prevent extinction. We’re already finding hundreds of planets per year with our relatively primitive telescopes, and we’ll doubtless find many habitable planets to colonize within the next 50-100 years at most. By 500 million years from now, it is likely that only a tiny fraction of humanity will be on Earth, as we will have ALREADY done a voluntary GTFO. Frankly, I expect that this will be the case before another 5,000 years goes by, let alone 100,000 times longer.

Thus, my conclusion is that this is a thoroughly stupid article. Give me, a non-scientist, a few weeks or months to write a book about it, and I’ll have it done better than the jackholes who were covered here.

[VerySadAmerican]

“I’m not too worried about it.” - Mr. Krueger of Krueger Enterprises