So in the long run, all that we have built will build and thought of building will pretty much be worthless since we have would cease to exist?

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    3 days ago

    Our star will never become a black hole, it does not have enough mass. In roughly 5 Billion years from now it will become a red giant, it will make earth uninhabitable, but may not destroy it outright.

    So we have some time to prepare.

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      3 days ago

      So we have some time to prepare.

      Unfortunately, as is the case with most group projects, this one will be put off until the last possible second.

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        Somehow I don’t think there are gonna be any humans in 5 billion years. Even if we had a body plan as perfect as a shark or a crab ,resisting evolution that long is gonna be pretty hard. Also the inherent instability of human civilization.

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      Eventually, as the sun swells, it will eventually consume the first three planets. But this would be hundreds of millions of years or even billions of years after it is burnt earth to a crisp.