• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    8 days ago

    Earth will be uninhabitable in a billion or two years yes.

    I was responding more so to your original statement:

    Earth to be imminently destroyed by it’s dying star

    1 billion years the earth may be cooked, but the sun will have 3-5 billion years left before it can’t fuse anymore. It’s more accurate to say Earth will be destroyed by the natural growth of its own star.

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      7 days ago

      The fascinating thing to all this to me was in realizing that everything has an end date … an expiry date … even if that date is millions or billions of years in the future. It doesn’t matter to me or you because we’ll be gone in within this century (barring any miraculous medical changes that allow us to live longer than a hundred years) but there is some sort of strange comfort that we are all equal that way … knowing that no one and nothing is eternal (that we know of so far).