Space

Space

In the beginning monologue of Star Trek, it is claimed that space is the final frontier and while other discipline would claim that their respective discipline is the final frontier, there seems to be a real validity that “space indeed is the final frontier”.

Historically and scientifically, our sun (or our star) has a life span of around 12 billion years, it is estimated to be around 4.6 billion years old and will not remain static forever.

1.1 billion years from now, the sun will burn 10% hotter, destroying Earth’s atmosphere and changing all life as we know of today.  3.5 billion years from now, the sun will be 40% brighter (and hotter) and this will boil and evaporate all our oceans, Earth will be like the planet Venus.  In fact, Venus is the future of Earth, 3.5 billion years from now.

The sun is currently burning hydrogen, but when it reached its 6 billionth year, hydrogen will run out and the sun now will burn helium, and the sun will become a red giant.  The sun will grow through expansion then after burning all of helium, the sun will now burn carbon and oxygen.

The sun will be transformed in as a white dwarf and will eventually cool down.  It goes without saying that if man wishes to survive as a specie, we must colonize space, find a more suitable planet with a relatively safe sun and after a billion of year, to search another hospitable place and repeat the process all over again.

But the question that begs answering is do we really want to live forever as a specie?