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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Our sun will not explode, it will become a red giant, progressively grill us, pulse and contract to a white dwarf. Got a couple hundreds of millions of years before the intensity becomes unbearable, that's a thousand times the age of our species. Hopefully we have figured interstellar travel by then, if we don't have already destroyed ourselves. https://www.space.com/solar-system-fate-when-sun-dies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm hoping we figure out starlifting before then. With a bit of help, our sun could last much longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We just have to drop a really cold icy moon into the sun to cool it off

[–] RGB3x3 2 points 11 months ago

"Thus solving the problem once and for all."

"But..."

"Once and for all!"