• Question: how long is the world expected to live

    Asked by laraij to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 14 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by sebisepic.
    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Honestly don’t have a clue, I’d imagine it would depend on whether we change what we’re doing or not. It’s quite hard to predict such a huge thing as global environment, thankfully the Mayans were wrong anyway 😛

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      Phil Rice answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      The world will live for another 3-4 billion years. After that the Sun turns into a red giant and engulf us. With regard to Homo sapiens (US!), I give us about another 30-50,000 years. We must get off this planet if we are to survive long term.

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