The Daily Mail<\/a> are reporting that the research proved that in around five billion years, the sun will enter its red giant phase\u2014a stage when it runs out of hydrogen fuel and dramatically expands.<\/p>\nAt that point it will likely engulf the inner planets, including Mercury, Venus and possibly Earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cMars is life insurance for life collectively,\u201d Musk told Fox\u2019s Jesse Watters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilisation because Earth will be incinerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
NASA has long warned that, eventually, the Sun will run out of energy, but it also notes that the Sun is still less than halfway through its lifetime and is expected to last another five billion years.<\/p>\n
Researchers created year-by-year simulations to predict changes in climate and gas composition, according to the study published in Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n
They ran more than 400,000 simulation to forecast when the world will end.<\/p>\n
The study, published in Nature Geoscience, determined that the loss of oxygen will lead to a mass extinction on Earth.<\/p>\n
Musk said on Monday his mission for Mars is for it to one day \u201cgrow by itself if the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, whether that is because civilisation died with a bang or a whimper.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the resupply ships are necessary for Mars to survive, then we have not created life insurance. We\u2019ve not created life insurance for life collectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s the key point in the future where [the] destiny of life, as we know it, will forever be affected, is when Mars becomes self-sustaining.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Trump took the first step in helping Musk reach this lofty goal, by signing off on a massive shift in funding priorities at NASA – including the largest cut to the space agency\u2019s budget in its history.<\/p>\n
On May 1, the Trump administration slashed $US6 billion that would have paid for research, operations on the International Space Station, and future missions, including the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.<\/p>\n
That project has already cost NASA billions and aimed to bring samples collected by the Martian rovers back to Earth to be studied.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the cuts will allow NASA to allocate over $US1 billion to manned space missions, ensuring \u2018that America\u2019s human space exploration efforts remain unparalleled, innovative, and efficient.\u2019<\/p>\n
The White House proposal emphasizes the importance of NASA beating China back to the moon and putting the first humans on Mars, with the latter being the overarching goal of Musk\u2019s spaceflight company, SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s recent re-allocation of funds away from certain NASA projects and toward Elon Musk\u2019s mission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,4678,413,53,16,15,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-93372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-society","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114490634631295250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}