A typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that will survive for even another 1000 years before you have billions. Thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an optimist i think that weve already seen well i know that weve already seen just incredible advances in science and Technology Medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a S
Visionary. Not interplanetary flights maybe just decades away. But what will they be like and are we ready to embrace interstellar a well i asked. Researcher professor. Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognized as another existential
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Technology medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a Sustainable Way on this very precious and rare planet that we live in to maintain the environment that is conducive for for a good quality of life so so im an optimist i believe in science and technology and and that the Scientific Method can make our lives better and it has and will continue to do so as we go into the future you know im sure you know this asked a physicist and just marching rees i was speaking to him recently and he told me that there was no plan b. For us. Do you think there were east or there is not. Well i mean right now thats true thats absolutely true but we we are made for this planet for this environment we have evolved to for this life around in this kind of an atmosphere with this temperature and this pressure and this composition so you know earth is our hom
Dysfunctions. In one arena after another of our National Life we face the challenge of drawing alienated people back into our institutions. We can point to all kinds of complicated theories about how to build the trust thats required, but the simplest way is for the people who inhabit our institutions, for all of us, to try to be more trustworthy and what each can work at that. We can give her institutional responsibilities more of our time and effort. We can give them more of identity and selfconsciousness. We can understand ourselves as defined by those institutions that matter most in her own lies. We can judge ourselves by their standards, hold ourselves up to their ideals and take seriously the forms of integrity and we can work to reform them where theyre failing to help them work better and be more worthy of trust and confidence. We can yearn not for the foremost autonomy of the event contractor but for the rudeness and responsibility of the member and the partner and the worker