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Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought
sciencehabit writes "Take a deep breath—Earth is not going to die as soon as scientists believed. Two new modeling studies find that the gradually brightening sun won't vaporize our planet's water for at least another 1 billion to 1.5 billion years—hundreds of millions of years later than a slightly older model had forecast. The findings won't change your retirement plans but could imply that habitable, Earth-like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought."
I wish you'd told me this yesterday.
The older prediction had me worried.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Challenge accepted, bitches!
This is going to wreak havok with the GNU/Hurd development schedule.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
This is the sort of thing that gives ammunition to climate change deniers.
How can congress formulate national policies to deal with impending issues like this when the timeframes keep changing?
At least now they won't have to rush things. Another 100 million years or so of inaction shouldn't make much difference.
We don't have many successful end-of-world-predictions to draw conclusions from.