To: ETL
"Thats 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.
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.
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10/29/2018 2:53:30 PM PDT by
Moonman62
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