What is Nature/Earth planning when the Sun burns up the earth???

[Alkaloids03]

Hi all,

 

Does anyone know if nature will rebuild itself after the earth is destoryed?

If the earth/nature is conciouious (which it most likely is), as all animals came from plants,etc...

 

 

So anyway, what is your opinion on what the earth/nature do when the earth gets attacked by the red giant?

 

 

any ideas?

 

[Strange]

Does anyone know if nature will rebuild itself after the earth is destoryed?

 

I don't see how nature could rebuild itself if the Earth were destroyed. (Of course nature and life of some sort may exist on other planets.)

 

If the earth/nature is conciouious (which it most likely is)

 

Why would you think that?

 

as all animals came from plants

 

I don't think so.

[Phi for All]

Hi all,

 

Does anyone know if nature will rebuild itself after the earth is destoryed?

IIRC, when the sun goes red giant, its equator will be well past Mars. But it's not going to do that suddenly, and part of that process will cause the sun to lose a lot of mass, so it's likely the inner planets (OK, probably not Mercury) will spiral outwards and may survive being totally ashed.

 

Still, we'd be too close to keep our oceans. Without them it's highly unlikely we could sustain life as we know it. On the other hand, when this happens, for the brief hundred million or so years the red giant is burning helium, the Goldilocks zone for the whole solar system will be extended, warming up some of the icy planets and moons, providing water and possible new homes for life.

 

If the earth/nature is conciouious (which it most likely is), as all animals came from plants,etc...

Whoa, let's step back a moment and put our rational scientist lab coats on. There is absolutely no testable, repeatable evidence that Earth/nature has a consciousness of its own, outside the individual species that make it up. It's a very common thing to tell ourselves, we as humans love to anthropomorphize just about everything, imagining other parts of nature having the same kind of intelligence we do.

 

But there's no evidence for it at all, nothing science can observe. Earth is a big biological system with an unbelievable amount of diversity, all developed by evolutionary processes that slowly change every species on it. It's amazing, but there doesn't seem to be any kind of overriding consciousness guiding everything. Trillions of little bits of life taking advantage of the way this world works, and the humans trying to figure it all out.

 

Btw, "all animals came from plants" is incorrect. The protozoan lineage (leading to fungi and animals) and the algae lineage (leading to plants) both had a common ancestor.

Edited August 8, 2015 by Phi for All
correction