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Name: Robert
Status: other
Age: 60s 
Location: N/A
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Date: 1999 - 2000
Question:
How long will it be before our sun burns out? And, do you think the human race can get to another place before it does?

Replies:
5 billion years to go. Humans should be long gone. Latest predictions show that the Earth will have big heat problems in about 300 millions years. Most species do not last more than a few million years at most, with a few notable exceptions.

Steve Sample


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