I wonder if there is enough for that homework project yet? Clearly living quarters on the moon or Mars would not help so we envision an orbiting space station which grows and eventually is self sufficient enough to leave orbit and go adventuring. Normal human life depends fundamentally on solar power so to outlive the sun needs either a younger star or an alternative power source. The current model is that some stars go supernova and spread the elements required for other stars and planets to form, That process could go on longer than our sun and provide energy either directly as stars or nuclear power. The elephant in the room of that argument is what we mean or expect from humans in any comparable time frame. Will we improve ourselves? Will we live longer lives? Or will we go the other way or split up into new species? These ideas have been aired in this thread. If put as a probability question, I guess I would assign a very low probability to remaining human that long.
sicut vis videre esto
When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G