In about 5 billion years our earth will be dead. The sun will use is hydrogen up and become larger. Its heat will boil the earths oceans and turn solid rock to molten liquid. So why do we try to survive, or save endangered species. Why do we constantly produce a new generation. Surely one generation will be the last?
Or will space technology give us a fighting chance?

Thats around 62500000 generations, we will have either discovered a way to travel through space or we would have evolved into something that may not even need land to live...

Shame we wont be around to see it...

personally i would like to think what lickable says will be true. but maybe we may evolve to live longer and longer it seems that way now. we might be around to see it lol.

Originally posted by dontaskme
In about 5 billion years our earth will be dead. The sun will use is hydrogen up and become larger. Its heat will boil the earths oceans and turn solid rock to molten liquid. So why do we try to survive, or save endangered species. Why do we constantly produce a new generation. Surely one generation will be the last?
Or will space technology give us a fighting chance?

Now that is like saying "I'm going to die, so why bother," isn't it?

*cough*... impossible to prove! Anyway, a meteor will probably turn earth into mars before then...

Surely one generation will be the last?

In a manner of speaking. The sun will probably produce massive amounts more radiation while swelling to become a red giant, so things get pretty roasty there over a period of tens of thousands of years.

But I reckon humans won't last even the next hundred thousand years. Climate change, rising seas, global pollution and overcrowding will be far worse before then. maybe we'll all mutate into gill bearing thingies, like Kevin Costner in Waterworld, and dress snappilly in a fish sort of way...

Originally posted by dontaskme
In about 5 billion years our earth will be dead. The sun will use is hydrogen up and become larger. Its heat will boil the earths oceans and turn solid rock to molten liquid. So why do we try to survive, or save endangered species. Why do we constantly produce a new generation. Surely one generation will be the last?
Or will space technology give us a fighting chance?

With that overwhelming conclusive evidence I'm going to bring my life to a blazing end using a heady mix of vodka, beer, drugs and buxom beauties. Anyone else care to join me in my last stand on this fair planet?????
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It will be very surprisng if mankind is around in another million years. There have been enough mass extinctions in the world's history to suggest that another is inevietable. It remains to be seen if man's own actions bring it around before natural events take their course.
We produce a new generation because of our sex drive and some of us try to save endangered species because we know that the world will be all the poorer without them.

Many people are only bothered about the price of petrol next week and they wouldn't be too bothered if they thought that world had only a few 100 years left, never mind a few billion.

Expanding on Ludd's 'cant be bothered' theme,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773823.stm