• TransplantedSconie@lemm.eedeleted by creator
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    10 months ago

    The sun has 7 to 8 billion years left. That’s a long time for life to return after we’ve fucked ourselves out of existence.

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      10 months ago

      The sun will gradually get brighter before it’s red giant phase so life only actually has around ~1bn years left. Microbes at least have that long. Complex multicellular life will be gone way before then.

      So while Earth itself may have more years ahead of it than behind it, life as we know it is actually nearing it’s end relatively speaking. Pretty depressing.