are the earth and humans going to exist billions of years from now?
487442
1) Earth: It depends on how many billion years. The Sun will evolve into a red giant in 5 billion years, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.\n\n2) Humans: no. Homo sapiens will either have evolved (naturally or artificially) to another species, or destroyed itself, before the first billion years.
1176469
In an ideal world, that would be great.  Unfortunately, that kind of reality is probably thousands of years away.\n\nJust like in Star Trek, we probably won't see that until aliens land, and show us exactly how primitive and violent we really are.  As long as we think we are the only civilization in the universe, there is little likelihood for improvement.\n\nI believe society is moving that way, but again, that's going to take hundreds of generations for us to evolve further.\n\nAnd if the aliens land and give us a book, don't go with them, "It's a cookbook!"
369940
not yet........ may be some day, in the coming century..lol
355405
As much as humans think that they're invincible,there is no doubt that one day we will be extinct. if not in next million years, the sun is going to expand in the next couple of billio n years, and the earth will become far to hot to live on.
885178
Research suggests that within the next century not only will we completely understand the human brain but computer processing power will far exceed it. Therefore we should not only be able to replicate the brain but should be able to create a far superior machine or human version 2. Depending on how we as humans merge with this new technology will determine whether we are part of this superior race or seen in the future as a lesser being. Either way endless and exciting possibilities are around the corner I don't think we will be waiting 1000's or even 100's of years.
637931
Depends on what type of life you mean. Human life, No. Humans only exist on earth and other space stations where technology has propelled mankind to.
286820
I think humans are the universe's way of interpreting itself, a form of manifested self awareness in a celestial sense. Should this be the case than it is unlikely that we will every be fully eradicated, we would linger into the future in one form or another. Of course if this is incorrect than I'll go for the B.F. meteor whacking us upside the head after we've had a nuclear war and a herd thinning dose of pestilence.
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Of course, we're heading to the end of the world...in a few billion years, when the sun expands and consumes our planet along with the other inner planets. All life on this planet will be extinguished well before that happens. However, human beings may very well extinguish their civilization and themselves sometime in the next few centuries. The problem is not the science. Of course, many well-respected scientists have been speaking out on the problems humanity faces. While some, like James Lovelock, may think we have already passed the point of no return; other scientists argue that we are still within a narrow window of opportunity to halt and perhaps even reverse the destructive policies and technologies that are presently damaging the environment. \n\nThe real problem is humanity, its cultures, and its governments. Most people around the world still hold a world view based upon ideas that were held to be valid back in the Stone Age... many people even believe that some supernatural agency will rescue humanity and clean up the world as soon as things have gotten as bad as they can get. Meanwhile, most governments base their decisions upon corporate interests and upon national interests... thus more global problems and their solutions are pretty much ignored. Short-sightedness is the overwhelming curse of humanity and its institutions.\n\nLife will continue in one form or another on this planet, whether there are human beings there to observe said life or not.
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the industrialized world is going to continue to extract, refine, chop down, pave over, and pollute everything in sight, until most land, water, and species have been destroyed and mankind can no longer survive.\n\nonce people have died off and a few thousand years have gone by, nature will begin to heal from the destruction we have caused, and any species that have survived will be better off.
840496
Scientists say that in 5,000,000,000 years, the sun will suddenly expand, probably all the way to Earth's orbit.  Even if it doesn't come this far, we will be fried. Before then, humanity may end, but Earth will still be here.
1028028
i dont think human being will ever extinct the earth...i don't think god created us.. to see us destructed again.. dat dont make no sense..dat someone u pray to.. every scd. someone u say dat loves u... would create the earth.. and just let you die.dat jus dont make sense...its just like..would u suffer to construct a house wit ur own hands.. and then just because..one window is wrong u destruct da whole? i dont think so.. u will fix da window.. and let errthing as it was.. so.the earth is bad now yes.. but not every thing or every person is bad.. and i dont think for dat god will let the huamn being extinct from the earth.
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Assuming there is such a thing.\nAssuming that by 'we', you don't literally mean you and I.\nAssuming humanity doesn't destroy itself.\nAssuming the Universe won't end before.\n\nyes.
1009966
Can the Earth sustain itself?\nOr us?\nThe earth will be around longer than we will.
970270
it won't be for a long time from now, like 1000s of years, but it will happen.  Planets are basically stars and stars burn out sooner or later.  If it isn't earth that ends first, it'll be the sun that burns out and we can't survive without the sun.
1044815
The earth will last a lot longer than we will. It will not be the same but it's the humans that will go crazy and kill each other when they can't get the necessities of life.
647798
Homo Sapiens appeared about 100,000 years ago. Without any scienctific inteference at gene level, I suspect there won't be much difference physically, but they will hopefully be fitter and better fed at the world level, with longer and better lives as diseases are eradicated or controlled.\nHowever, if we look at the advances made since the industrial revolution and the earlier age of enlightenment, we will be talking an amazing and unpredictable future, assuming we don't wipe ourselves out. Compared to the 100,000 years we've been here, we've developed the majority of our current technology over a miniscule 300years and the increase in advanced technology culminating in electronics and computers in reality over the last 50, although obviously based on earlier work. It's a really amzing time we're living in, but hopefully the rest of the world will ultimately benefit from the globalisation of technology in a positive environmental and social way and not as is currently the norm of wanton profligate usage of natural resources of western "developed" societies and the random conflicts of the world's societies as a whole.\nMaybe in the next 10,000 years we'll grow up?
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It's possible but i doubt it...we never know....we could not even have an earth in a million years...but i do know one thing....neither one of us will be alive to find out will we,.....