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Last Post 3/19/2008 11:21 AM by Peter Harvey

will the earth die along with the sun?

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3/19/2008 8:10 AM
I was reading some of the blogs and one of the questains was "will the sun ever die out?" and my questain is adding on to that and i want to know, for the people who do live during the time when the sun "dies" will the earth no longer be "alive" because the sun isn't giving any energy or light source for the earth?

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3/19/2008 11:21 AM
Generally speaking, when the sun burns out, the earth will stop functioning as it currently does. It's a long time in the future, so by then, it is likely that humans will use space technology to live on the planet using alternative power systems for heat and electricity and so forth. - Peter