>> The sun will go boom soon enough Depends on your definition of 'soon enough'. The sun will have exhausted its hydrogen supply in about 5 billion years. In a

>> The sun will go boom soon enough Depends on your definition of 'soon enough'. The sun will have exhausted its hydrogen supply in about 5 billion years. In about 1 billion years, the temperature on this planet will probably become unsustainable for life. Your right of course, but that event is so far in the future, I doubt we can speak of anything even resembling humanity by that time. I was thinking in timeframes of about a ten to hundred thousand years, not billions.