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   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 11/04/2017 11:14, burfordTjustice wrote:   
   >   
   > Who will be here in a billion years?   
   >   
   > In a few billion years, the sun will become a red giant so large that it   
   will engulf our planet. But the Earth will become uninhabitable much sooner   
   than that. After about a billion years the sun will become hot enough to boil   
   our oceans.   
   >   
   > The sun is currently classified as a "main sequence" star. This means that   
   it is in the most stable part of its life, converting the hydrogen present in   
   its core into helium. For a star the size of ours, this phase lasts a little   
   over 8 billion years.    
   Our solar system is just over 4.5 billion years old, so the sun is slightly   
   more than halfway through its stable lifetime.   
   >   
   > So what are the green enviros going to do about the sun?   
   >   
   Get a bit hot under the collar probably.   
      
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