• Question: When the sun eventually swells up and explodes do you think the people on earth will be advanced enough to survive or smart enough to know how to get to a new terrestrial planet and fast?

    Asked by Anakin to Eimear, James, Jonathan, Lána, Willi on 27 Feb 2018.
    • Photo: William O'Connor

      William O'Connor answered on 27 Feb 2018:

      Interesting question, well put.
      I’ll kick for touch and say that we have a good few million years to think about this, before the answer becomes urgent!
      A lot of other things can happen in the meantime, some good and some maybe bad, but I’d hope we’ll have a lot of new, powerful technologies we haven’t even thought of yet.

    • Photo: Lána Salmon

      Lána Salmon answered on 27 Feb 2018:

      As Willi said, who knows what will happen in a few million years! I’d hope that we would have advanced our technologies and maybe even be able to travel to other planets.

    • Photo: Eimear Tuohy

      Eimear Tuohy answered on 27 Feb 2018:

      I hope so! Maybe we will be on a new planet by then. I feel like there are so many technological advances happening and so many possibilities that it is very hard to predict where humans will be in millions of years. Hopefully there will be another version of Earth…..with an Ireland with less rain 😛

    • Photo: James Geary

      James Geary answered on 28 Feb 2018:

      Survival of a super nova will not be possible, I think our sun is predicted in around 4 billion years to supernova? Maybe by then we have left Earth?

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