Well, That's OK Then...
We've approx 1 Billion years left.
As I lay in bed this morning a quick interview was given in a rather brief and less than informative way by a BBC Radio 5 presenter and rushed because the news was due within a couple of minutes.
But the guest was a Professor and there has been another of those studies issued.
The upshot is that the Sun in our solar system is older than we at first believed and...is therefore coming to the end of it's life. If I heard correctly, the Human Race or life in general appeared quite a long way into the Earth's history(or the time)that the Solar system that we are a part of has existed(around the 3 Billion mark)and this study reckons therefore that we have approx 1 Billion years remaining before we'll be no more...so that's OK then...
You can still do all that you planned to in the immediate future.
Of course...even if we survive for that 1 Billion years as things start to change, I suspect the place will be a lot different and chances are the changes will mean we will be a dead planet, if it hasn't been burnt to a crisp or blown apart.
So much for the watching of our carbon footprint or worrying about global warming.
I believe this interview is in relation to the following story which was actually released to the press in the following release in February 2008 so it's taken the BBC approx two months to include it on their Breakfast programme.
As suggested, the Earth will be around longer than 1 Billion years but the likelihood of life surviving until the end is slim. Who believes that we can move our planet to a new location? Not me.
The Sun will vaporise the Earth unless we can change our orbit.
As I lay in bed this morning a quick interview was given in a rather brief and less than informative way by a BBC Radio 5 presenter and rushed because the news was due within a couple of minutes.
But the guest was a Professor and there has been another of those studies issued.
The upshot is that the Sun in our solar system is older than we at first believed and...is therefore coming to the end of it's life. If I heard correctly, the Human Race or life in general appeared quite a long way into the Earth's history(or the time)that the Solar system that we are a part of has existed(around the 3 Billion mark)and this study reckons therefore that we have approx 1 Billion years remaining before we'll be no more...so that's OK then...
You can still do all that you planned to in the immediate future.
Of course...even if we survive for that 1 Billion years as things start to change, I suspect the place will be a lot different and chances are the changes will mean we will be a dead planet, if it hasn't been burnt to a crisp or blown apart.
So much for the watching of our carbon footprint or worrying about global warming.
I believe this interview is in relation to the following story which was actually released to the press in the following release in February 2008 so it's taken the BBC approx two months to include it on their Breakfast programme.
As suggested, the Earth will be around longer than 1 Billion years but the likelihood of life surviving until the end is slim. Who believes that we can move our planet to a new location? Not me.
The Sun will vaporise the Earth unless we can change our orbit.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 6:16 pm
2 Comments:
I'll try to catch up on your posts this weekend Gildy.
Re this one I'm sure they just mean the planet because I don't give us much more than a couple of hundred years max...cynical bastard that I am I just don't think the human race can last or even deserves to last much more....like Agent Smith said...we're a virus.
Span,
I see the beauty, the wonder, the fragility etc...the world has but like you I am cynical enough to know all the error's of Man's existence and belief that it is our right to do as we wish.
We have caused and will continue to create as many problems as we solve. In many instances if it was not thanks to our capability to adapt(especially regarding against diseases)and medical problems we probably would've long since died out as a race or species.
There is probably some truth in that the Earth is over populated for the resources it has especially where climate is harsh but these areas still have large populations that continue to increase. Some views do however, cause offence on religious and moral grounds and to suggest some ideas can result in some things being left unsaid especially if you hold a position in the public eye.
The natural cycle that the Earth is going through and being hijacked on the back of Global Warming will if nothing else mean that the Human Race will have to adapt to the changes and I am sure that as we are warming up, the opposite will happen again. It was only a few years ago we were being told that the Earth was warming up because we are still coming out of the last Ice Age. We were also being told we would have more.
What is happening unfortunately is that politicians are using it as a way to frighten and/or raise additional taxes out of the World's population(especially in the developed world) OK to some extent as long as we are allowed to question and not just accept what we are being told without being ostracized.
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