i agree with the first, except there will be nothing left of the earth as it's mass is consumed by the red giant sun as it begins to fuse heavy elements.
As for life suviving...it's survived atmospheric holocausts, snowball earths, planetoid impacts, and polar shifts. There'll be life on this planet till it's atomized by the sun. Plus if our current rate of technological developement persists, we'll have FTL travel within forty years and whatever the hell we evolve into should be quite safe along with any other terran life they save.
Originally posted by Eternalist 04
nah i dont think so =\ that wont happen till a few million years... i was thinking of a hydro fusion nuclear bomb a man made bio weapon... or a big natural disaster like... a comet hitting the earth or shattering the moon leaving us moonless and pretty much screwed
While a comet could cause problems popular theory suggests the earth has already handled plenty of impacts. In all likely hood the earth will remain in existence until the sun goes billions of years from now - and no nuclear weapon or bioweapon is going to change that.
I guess you question refers more to the end of humanity - a far more fragile aspect that could be destroyed by many things. Still, the world would most likely continue to tick along nicely without man, so it would hardly be the end of the world. And while something like a nuclear holocaust might cause a fair bit of damage to life upon it, it would eventually recover, and life would continue.
Originally posted by Eternalist 04
anyone have a clue an idea of what might happen?
Realistically? I'd say the death of our sun, if we haven't blown ourselves up in a nuclear war or if some crazy-ass aliens don't glass the planet first. Global warming's an issue as well.
In an unimaginably distant future, when protons have decayed and the long-gone era of stars and galaxies will be viewed, fondly, as the warm afterglow of the Big Bang, all that will be left are giant evaporating black holes around which any remaining vestiges of disembodied consciousness will huddle.
Originally posted by Gregory
Uh ... our sun will turn into a red giant, swelling out and consuming Earth. Then, it will collapse into a white dwarf, and whatever charred remains of Earth still exist will be frozen.
That or aliens swoop down onto earth and use us all for personal experimentation. (Just kidding.)
Originally posted by Mindship
In an unimaginably distant future, when protons have decayed and the long-gone era of stars and galaxies will be viewed, fondly, as the warm afterglow of the Big Bang, all that will be left are giant evaporating black holes around which any remaining vestiges of disembodied consciousness will huddle.
Only if the universe is flat. 😉
I figure everything has some purpose in the place where it exists. We mine diamonds, we suck oil and natural gas out of the earth, we burn many things that would otherwise probably never burned on the surface, we through our actions combine various things that would not have otherwise combined. I figure that the earth will stop working the way it has been, something we are doing will eventually cause a major issue that we are unable to see because we haven't reached a critical point in whatever causes it, the earth will die.