The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet

Huh. Last I heard, the sun would lose mass, causing the orbits to expand, slowing any effect of a rise in solar intensity.

Also:
I'll be dead by then. I'll feel bad for the great, great to the 10th power(I wish I could do superscript in here) grandson, but his kids'll be real pricks.

Human life on Earth grows steadily more challenging as we grow exponentially in population. From territorial disputes to wars over natural resources, our species has shown, in an amazingly tribal way, that we just can't play nice. But there have been spikes in cooperation and a few of them have come about by Space programs. And not only has the goal of space exploration granted us some modimeep of solidarity between tribes, the cooperation needed for the goals met to allow human space travel has, as an offshoot, created/spurred/inspired many of the greater advancements humans have made thus far. So I say, first star to the right and straight on till morning.

humanity will destroy itself before this endeavor will be realized

@Vasudeva

really? you are concerned about this now? We have billions of years! Also the population is literally exploding... When i was a kid in the eighties there were less than five billion people on earth. this year there are to be seven billion. based on projected life expectancies for me based on factors such as family history, edumication, and income (i findz this on the interwebs) my life expectancy is 91, meaning i should die around 2076. According to fancy charts and graphs found here there will be 11 billion people in the world. I would imagine by the time the sun explodes there could be a trillion. However, I am confident the human race will destroy itself or God's Judgement will come and by the time the star explodes there will be no one here.

so my question is, why should anyone alive now give a flying meep?

Yes, but only that I may continue my perfect unbroken trend of believing fervently in the message behind every link I swarm.

@Dismas

@Vasudeva really? you are concerned about this now?

I, personally, wouldn't want to live there. I hear the planet is very Angry, & Red, and has lots of critters that tell you so.

@vasudeva

message. @Dismas
Sometimes the information in a message drives people to think about things proactively and beyond their own little coil.

BTW, we have no real idea when Sol will give the big "meep you all, I need to get Krunk" to our little meatsacks. We just have averages of measurements (which, with the exception of those made of our own star, were taken from light years away) of the greatest chaotic forces in the universe to base our happy little ideas of safety for many generations on.

Could we do anything about it now? Nope. We all die. Could we do anything about it a generation ahead, maybe if they're smarter, have a meepload more information to work with and are a meep load luckier than we are... Still probably not. The thing is that as long as the concern is there, the chances of humanity (not just you or me) making it to talk meep about us in internet forums is a little greater.