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by 29athrowaway 723 days ago
You will have worse problems in 292B years.

In 4.5 billion years we would live in the result of the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda, which will increase our chances of encountering either alien life, or alien artificial entities.

And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant and evaporated all oceans on Earth, will become a white dwarf.

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> And after 200+ billion years, the sun, after having been a red giant

Technically speaking, that would be the end of our problems unless

> the Milky way galaxy merging with Andromeda

won't finish us first or... some stray asteroid of sufficiently lethal size and speed bumps into our green/blue golf ball