{"id":1185,"date":"2015-03-29T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T04:32:23","slug":"another-500-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/29\/another-500-million-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 500 Million Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to present day stellar models, the evolution of the Sun leaves the Earth with only approximately 500 million years left where it can sustain multi-cellular life, and perhaps another 300 million after that the last single celled organisms will perish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I read about this, in much more detail, and felt a serious emotional anguish at the thought that only half a billion years from now no complex life forms will remain and not long after that no life at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why should it matter to me when I and all of humanity will be gone long before that time?\u00a0 Well, I think there is a resonance, until recently we thought multi-cellular life only went back 600 million years, which would make the Earth kind of middle-aged, but recent discoveries of multi-cellular life forms now push that date back 2.1 billion years, which means that the Earth is 80% through it&#8217;s multi-cellular life harbouring days.\u00a0 Me, I&#8217;m 56, at least half-way through my life, and who knows maybe a lot more than half-way.\u00a0 I&#8217;m adopted so I have no idea what the genetic inclinations of my parents are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 10pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A friend turned thirty today and she was upset about all the time that has slipped by, water under the bridge, goals not attained.\u00a0 I would like to be ONLY thirty again.\u00a0 A lot more water&#8217;s been under my bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to present day stellar models, the evolution of the Sun leaves the Earth with only approximately 500 million years left where it can sustain multi-cellular life, and perhaps another 300 million after that the last single celled organisms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/29\/another-500-million-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}