I wish they'd give us more time to prepare!!!

so long as it doesn't end before LOST does....

If, by some fluke chance, we're still around by then, we'll be reaching the far edges of the galaxy, maybe the universe. I have almost no doubt that, given enough time, the human race can find some "cheat codes" in physics for teleportation/traveling faster than light.

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I remember learning about this at space camp, and at the time I was terrified for the future of planet earth.

It wasn't until a decade later when I started geology that I began to understand just how long a billion years is.

A mere billion years ago, life on earth comprised of cyanobacteria, so I'm not even going to worry about how things will look in 7.6Ga from now.

Just trying counting to a billion...it's a very large number (times 7!).

7.6 billion?? Do they have a day? Because if it's a Saturday, that just won't do.

this has got to be the easiest prediction to make...no one alive to hear it will even remotely be remembered 7.6 billion years from now.

good guess guys!

It not so much a guess as an educated prediction. Having taken astronomy it is obvious that they have a pretty good grasp of time frames and star patterns.

How is Tuesday, Hoosker?

Tuesday will work, I hardly ever have much planned on Tuesday's.

I see Doctor Who was off by a few billion years.

Oh sure. They can barely determine the weather next week but this, THIS they can predict.

Planetary and star patterns are much more predictable then the weather...

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if the human race exists even 100 years into the future, i'd be surprised. thinking the human race will exist 7.6 billion years into the future is rather silly, and perhaps ignorant.

Depends if we develop off world colonies before something bad happens.

perhaps ... but in one billion years, if the bloodline still continues, would it stay human, or have evolved? that'd be a curious thing to find out.

The earth may be burnt up then, but we'll all die of the heat long before the rest of the earth does.
Heck, just a few degrees more and half the world will be underwater because of the ice caps. The earth will outlive us by at least a billion years, assuming we don't have anything to do with it.

Good. I hate long waits.