Hm.. I actually like to pipe in on that magical number '4.5 billion years', as in, within that timespan we need to move our ass somewhere else before the sun puts the earth on the BBQ.
I actually wonder what the name and properties of the next epoch are, heck.. what about the next period or era? How long have we been around? 40.000 years. (humans in their current form), according to science the earliest ancestors date back around 20.000.000 years (talking more about the ape'ish stuff here eh). That's all peanuts if you compare the age of the earth. I've yet to see the current human race to live another -let's be optimistic- million years. A *million* years.. any idea how long that is? :P Can we even live here on this ball by then? Or will we see a rerun of the late Perm period where the whole shebang turns into a large desert? Why wouldn't we just be wiped out in a million years anyway, or sooner? That whole space thing seems far-fetched to me. I don't think ppl are to live in space in some artificial world (like that famous rotating wheel), but on a real planet. Terraforming? Takes eons. Until terraforming is done, ppl have to live in space, I don't know if we can.. I think not.
There's a natural law dictating that any intelligent type of species can't leave its original planet en-mass, in order to prevent space colonisation. Sofar I think this law is valid.
I actually wonder what the name and properties of the next epoch are, heck.. what about the next period or era? How long have we been around? 40.000 years. (humans in their current form), according to science the earliest ancestors date back around 20.000.000 years (talking more about the ape'ish stuff here eh). That's all peanuts if you compare the age of the earth. I've yet to see the current human race to live another -let's be optimistic- million years. A *million* years.. any idea how long that is? :P Can we even live here on this ball by then? Or will we see a rerun of the late Perm period where the whole shebang turns into a large desert? Why wouldn't we just be wiped out in a million years anyway, or sooner? That whole space thing seems far-fetched to me. I don't think ppl are to live in space in some artificial world (like that famous rotating wheel), but on a real planet. Terraforming? Takes eons. Until terraforming is done, ppl have to live in space, I don't know if we can.. I think not.
There's a natural law dictating that any intelligent type of species can't leave its original planet en-mass, in order to prevent space colonisation. Sofar I think this law is valid.