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To: ETL
"That’s well before the sun is expected to swell into a red giant and consume us in its death throes roughly 5.4 billion years from now"

The sun also is heating up as it ages. In only half a billion years the earth will be outside the habitable zone, and the oceans will begin to evaporate away. We might want to think about moving to Mars then.
22 posted on 10/29/2018 2:51:09 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The sun also is heating up as it ages.

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I think it’s around a 10 percent increase every billion years. And I think there is disagreement about when the Earth will become uninhabitable.


25 posted on 10/29/2018 2:53:30 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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