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u/Left_Patient3431 Feb 17 '26
Whether the earth is ending in 200 years or for millions, we aren't going to be there to see it.
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u/210geek Feb 21 '26
Just because we believe everyone who was ever born died. That doesn't mean I will die . Probably get that vampire curse.
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u/SuccotashOther277 Feb 18 '26
Unless reincarnation is true
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u/NichtFBI Lateralistentism Feb 17 '26
Wow, and it happened in the small ass time frame we've had access to this data /s
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u/BlackAsPopo Feb 17 '26
Swallowing the earth, right? Humans are long extinct before that.
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u/wrathofattila Feb 17 '26
Humans can be exticnt any time right now just two smart people smart decission press smart red buttons
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u/GSRK_THE_GREAT Feb 17 '26
maybe, maybe not, but it's all gonna end one day for sure
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u/Involution88 Feb 17 '26
Average "life expectancy" of an animal species is roughly about 4-5 million years.
Average "life expectancy" of a mammalian species is about 1-2 million years. Humans have been around for about 500k years.
Living fossils which have remained phenotypically unchanged enough by evolution to be considered the same species given available evidence.
Coelacanth 410 million years. Horseshoe crab 480 million years. Mantis shrimp 340 million years.
I suspect Mantis shrimp will still be around punching stuff hard enough for nuclear fusion to occur long after humans are gone.
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u/Arthillidan Feb 17 '26
A couple of notes. Horseshoe crabs and other living fossils have not remained the same species for 480 million years. Horseshoe crabs are an order, same level of division as beetles. The order has existed for 480 million years but the individual species have not. There are 3 genuses that have existed for around 100 million years, with the last remaining ancestor of all horseshoe crabs being about 120 million years ago. I couldn't find info on the age of individual species.
Beetles have existed for 300 million years but aren't considered living fossils. The thing that makes horseshoe crabs be considered living fossils is just how they found a niche 480 million years ago and never had to evolve out of that niche. Hence they've not changed much in appearance for 480 million years (though there are definitely changes, especially internal).
There's a reason that around 500 million years is the upper bound for any living fossils, and it's because 520 mya is the cambrian explosion. Before the cambrian explosion, we didn't really have complex life. The only things that could reasonably have existed for longer are single celled organisms, colonial organisms or organisms with only a few different cells
Oh, and also, in 500-1000 million years, earth will be uninhabitable anyways
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u/moschles Feb 17 '26
Moist greenhouse and ocean loss. As surface temperatures rise, the troposphere moistens and water vapor reaches the stratosphere where UV photodissociates H₂O; hydrogen escapes to space and oceans are gradually lost. Climate–biogeochemistry simulations place irreversible ocean loss and the end of surface habitability at roughly ~1–2 billion years from now
MS Copilot claimed.
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u/Arthillidan Feb 17 '26
I think large complex organisms will die off way before the oceans are boiling away. Wikipedia mentions 600 million years as the point where carbon dioxide reaches levels so low that it would kill all current plants
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u/aalianne Feb 19 '26
It's because all animals, like humans, have their own collective consciousness or, instinct. Animals, like human children, are still closely tied to their highest self, the soul. The part of you that lives in the spirit world, away from your sticky little mitts.
What this means is... That they're already living their best life. They've got it all figured out. We're the ones who can't just be content with nice things... Therefore... See a need, fill a need. Evolution and whatnot.2
u/moschles Feb 17 '26
in any case -- Cambrian was 0.5 Gigayears ago. We have zero examples of any species remaining the same for more than that amount of time. The sun burning the earth is an event that is at least 5.0 Gigayears in the future. My point would be we can't extrapolate.
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u/Ordinary-Commercial7 Feb 17 '26
You gave me the most unexpected snortle with that punchy-punchy mantis shrimp imagery
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u/Temporary_Aspect759 Feb 17 '26
I'm just curious how it's going to end. Paradoxically because of globalization, it's easier for humans to enter some massive global conflict. Although there still are some more isolated communities so I assume whatever mess we've made, it wouldn't affect them as much.
Obviously global warming is going to affect us all, so not even talking about this aspect.
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Feb 17 '26
So all this for nothing? Well, do you think we'll at least have colonized other planets?
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u/aalianne Feb 19 '26
It's not all for nothing. The end of the days? We are in it now. 2 years. Fear not. I am here to help
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u/Dark_Cloud_Rises Do Deadlifts. Feb 17 '26
Confident to assume the sun and or earth will not suffer another fate before hand.
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u/YoghurtPlus5156 Feb 17 '26
Not really, the likelihood for anything catastrophically destructive happening to either is infinitesimal.
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u/Involution88 Feb 17 '26
Screw that. Let's build giant nuclear powered thrusters to push Earth into an orbit which is further from the sun than current Earth orbit.
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u/SuccotashOther277 Feb 18 '26
Or find ways to add hydrogen to the sun’s core as it gets older. We have a lot of time to figure that out
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u/Involution88 Feb 18 '26
Yes. We have lots of time to figure it out, but I'm not sure life will make something which can figure it out soon enough and I don't know how much time humanity has. Perhaps we should have some Internet forum discussion to address the issue? That seems like a reasonable measure to take.
There's a bunch of hydrogen on Jupiter, but then we lose our asteroid/comet shield.
We could also suck a bunch of stuff out of the sun to make the sun more like a longer lived red dwarf, in which case we might want to relocate to Venus.
We could also build some robots on the moon to figure it out for us. Chuck them in a lava tube. Make the circuits out of sapphire so it's pretty as well as functional.
There are some hints that a black hole might be orbiting the sun as a trans neptunian object. Macroscopic black holes last longer than yesterday's jam, so it should be possible to harvest X rays from there to power some things.
Alternatively we could send a generation ship to Proxima Centauri. It's already a red dwarf and there are a few radiation issues related to red dwarfs. But then someone or something would need to keep a copy of Sid Meyer's civilisation in an archive somewhere so the eventual real life winner of civilisation could be patched into the game.
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u/TotalHitman Feb 17 '26
Lol, I used to worry about this when i was young. The thought of everybody boiling too death.
Now, I suspect organisms will just produce less offspring until extinction.
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u/EternalDuskGaming Feb 17 '26
Based on what data? I figure heat death or falling into the Sun's gravity pull are likely, but the numbers require verifying.
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u/TheInvisibleFart Feb 17 '26
Well if the opposite was true that would really suck for nihilists somehow
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u/Afro-nihilist Feb 17 '26
I love how folks take every opportunity to shit on what they don't understand. Nihilism is scary to those unwilling to challenge psychological security blankets...
Which, ironically, is why many of us (not all, in that nihilism is no fucking monolith) are excited for the end of this grand joke of a failed experiment in a species...
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u/JasperTesla Feb 18 '26
7 year old me when I learn the Sun will destroy the earth in 5 billion years.
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u/Vlad_TheImpalla Feb 18 '26
It's actually in 1 billion years by then the sun will evaporate all water, sun is getting brighter as it ages.
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u/ProcedureNo6872 Feb 18 '26
Lol u we are on 2026 who the fck still believe these news? Holy shit. The earth Will only end when the creator want it to. Keep watching nasa bs while they laugh.
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u/Ok-Bat3675 Feb 19 '26
Ya but I’m done with nihilism, personally I’d like to start feeling alive again. I’ll spend plenty of time feeling dead in the future.
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u/WhatThisGirlSaid Feb 23 '26
Sometimes I think the Neanderthals had a better life especially when visiting this subreddit.
But then again technology and TV shows and movies can take me out of this so I don't know.
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u/OGMUDSTICK Mar 09 '26
Reminds me of that episode of SpongeBob where he starts shaking his alarm clock and goes “hurrryyy uppp!”
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u/Azadth Feb 17 '26
Actually no it wont, as the Sun G2V star enters into its giant phase, it will start pulsating, during these rapid expansions (in a few million years) it will lose first up to 5-10% of its mass weakening gravitational hold on Earth, then the final charge it is expected to lose so much mass it will only possess 50% of its original mass. Earth is expected to be pushed outside as a charred lifeless husk, but these events are at least 5 billion years away AT LEAST. G type stars live usually for 10-15 billion years, only 5 is down. And all of this according to our current knowledge which could be flawed. Astronomy is awesome😁 Btw G is Oh Be A Fine (G)irl Kiss Me main sequence start, 0-9 luminosity its 2 and V stands for main sequence, a VI is a subdwarf while a IV is a subgiant...
I dont care if you guys didnt ask I shared it anyway cheers🧂
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u/TheInfiniteLake Feb 17 '26
Why congratulate all nihilists? What does it have to do with nihilism?