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It is expected that the sun will turn into a red giant about three billion years from now, so any problems which may be caused by this are too far in the future for us to worry about. However, the expanding sun will reach and engulf the planet Earth, which will be heated well beyond the point of becoming uninhabitable. So if there are still any people or other intelligent beings living on Earth three billion years from now, they are going to have to move somewhere else. In the event that the human race lasts for another three billion years (and the bookies go not give good odds on this) there would seem to be no problem in developing a very successful space travel technology, given that amount of time for research and development. But who knows, maybe we will put it off until the last minute...

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