• Question: how many generations of the human race will there be before the sun explodes?

    Asked by Aoife. to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Michel Destrade

      Michel Destrade answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Sun explodes: 5 billion years from now (more or less);
      One generation = 25 years;
      So 5,000,000,000/25 = 200,000,000, that is 200 million generations.

    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Great answer Michel!

    • Photo: Roisin Jones

      Roisin Jones answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Nice answer Michel! Wow, that’s plenty of time for evolution…wonder what humans will look like then!

    • Photo: Karen

      Karen answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      Wow, that’s good to know! Great question ??

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