Posted: Aug 11, 2011 2:13 pm
Sun is going supernova in five billion years, and at that point there will be an immediate
cessation in the evolutionary process, at least here as the planet will be reduced to mere
sub atomic matter drifting aimlessly in space. Now there may very well be another similar
world, in another solar system, in another galaxy, which has the potential to create life as
was here but it would need 800 million years to exist just to produce the bacteria from the
primordial soup from which all existing life will subsequently develop. And the odds on that
are less than perfect. It might not actually take 800 million years for this to happen. Maybe
just 700 instead. There again it might be 900 who knows ? But one thing is definitely certain
we will not be around to witness it. As Woody Allen once said, life is a bitch and then you die
But what is so unappealing anyway, about spending the rest of eternity in blissful state of non
consciousness ? Much more preferable than hanging around waiting for bacteria to evolve I say
cessation in the evolutionary process, at least here as the planet will be reduced to mere
sub atomic matter drifting aimlessly in space. Now there may very well be another similar
world, in another solar system, in another galaxy, which has the potential to create life as
was here but it would need 800 million years to exist just to produce the bacteria from the
primordial soup from which all existing life will subsequently develop. And the odds on that
are less than perfect. It might not actually take 800 million years for this to happen. Maybe
just 700 instead. There again it might be 900 who knows ? But one thing is definitely certain
we will not be around to witness it. As Woody Allen once said, life is a bitch and then you die
But what is so unappealing anyway, about spending the rest of eternity in blissful state of non
consciousness ? Much more preferable than hanging around waiting for bacteria to evolve I say