How Humble We Really Are
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In fact, when our sun dies, and becomes a red giant, we would be consumed and mars would be in a similar position to mercury now, and the gas giants would be stripped down to their solid cores.
Apparently when the sun turns into a red giant it will consume over half the solar system, but thats like 5,000,000,000 years away so I think we are safe. We should be more worried about astroids I'm sure one is going to hit us before 2020.
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The fact that always bugged me was that it would take an average human 371 million years to walk a single light year.
why does that bug you?
and jets and things.
The human species would probably be extinct by then. It'll be the kangeroos turn as the ruling species.
why would we be extinct?
We would be sitting on the edge of the solar system with TV cameras broadcasting to most of the human worlds, and probberly be drinking heavily ^^
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a meteor and, we have, have we not ?
as for sun exploding, it will be a long way off unless some pillock sends a stargate attached to a black hole into it
theres a slim chance i was bored and rewatching some stargate episodes today.
most impressive thing in that video is, google earth sure got good, is that in the next beta or something. Realistically in our life times we won't be visiting other planets, colonising anywhere or traveling very far. though i guess to be fair, there is a decent chance some planet somewhere has a species that has cracked space travel. most species inteligent enough to get that far i just can't see being hostile, theres just as much chance of them coming here during our generation as there is in 200 years, or 20,000 years. i can't see us creating a way to travel ourselves but its in the realm of possibility "aliens" could come and show us how to travel which would be cool.
chances of an alien race getting quite advanced aren't that high. probability that a alien species is out there is high, but it took literally billions of evolutionary advances to get us where we are now, thats the difference. chance of a basic species is high, chance they also survived evolution and became highly inteligent is pretty damn low even when you take into account how many planets there are.
Either way, to be able to travel to other solar systems, see things like binary star systems, other planets, other life, oh well.
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Has another species lasted 5 billion years? Crocs have been around for 200 million years.
sort of poor evidence that, how long have certain viruses/bacteria been around, far longer than a croc I'd bet, also has the earth even been habitable for 5 billion years?
WE will have probably started a small colony on the moon, mars or a station, in sub 100 years, so an asteroid or war or deasiease would not get us all
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I reckon "aliens" would be at a similar era that we're in now, given that we both started at the same time, evolution can't skip steps, or go any faster, unless the species has a much shorter life span (drunkenmaster, re: stargate episode where they goto that planet that has those party folk who only live for 20 days or something and O'Neil gets it too).
This is entirely ignoring Genesis
This is entirely ignoring Genesis
I reckon "aliens" would be at a similar era that we're in now, given that we both started at the same time, evolution can't skip steps, or go any faster, unless the species has a much shorter life span (drunkenmaster, re: stargate episode where they goto that planet that has those party folk who only live for 20 days or something and O'Neil gets it too).
This is entirely ignoring Genesis
What if the dinosaurs weren't wiped out, and evolved to self awareness? They would have had 200 million years head start over humans.
You cannot say for sure that if aliens exist, they'll be around the same level of advancement...
I read somewhere when I first saw these images, light it'self takes 8 years to travel round it !!!
actually they may have been far behind humans, as the "probably smaller/weaker" because they would have had to compete with massive and more dagarus predators, which we(mamels) didn't have to because of the dinosaurs being wiped out.
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they may be more intelligent, since they would have to adapt to survive against big eaters, and work in groups, so would have to develop a language faster else be wiped out.
Who knows?
Maybe they're still harassed...
There is a possiblity all be it very very slim that if the sun expanded relatively slowly (for reasons I can't remember) the sun would "lose it's grip" (gravitational pull)on earth and it would start to drift into a higher orbit, although not being swallowed up by it however, it will still be closer to the suns surface, all it's atmosphere will be boiled off anyway.
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