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Last Post 3/1/2007 9:58 AM by Anonymous

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2/27/2007 12:59 PM
If the sun ever burns off what would happen to the sun what would happen to us???

Terry Kucera

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2/28/2007 4:58 AM
We don't expect the Sun to burn out for a very, very long time. If humans still exist then we would have to find some place else to live! Our first problem would be what to do when the Sun gets hotter and eventually expands. After that, though, it would eventually become a white dwarf stars and then burn out (see A Peek into the Lives of Stars from Windows to the Universe) http://www.windows.ucar.e...ff/tourstars_29.html Maybe humans could move elsewhere in the solar system or even leave the solar system all together. That is so far in the future (billions of years), who knows what might happen! Terry