Scientists Calculate Earth's Death Date to the Exact Day and We Have 999,997,996 Years to Prepare

A NASA supercomputer has determined when our planet becomes a lifeless wasteland, and the specificity is somehow more disturbing than the news itself.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news. Messa
scientists partnering with researchers at Toho University in Japan, Yes,
the Godzilla people, which now feels like foreshadowing, have calculated
Earth's expiration date October twenty first, one billion, twenty twenty one.
Lead researcher Kazumi Ozaki states, for many years, the lifespan

(00:33):
of Earth's biosphere has been discussed based on the steady
brightening of the sun. This translates from scientists speak to
we've been watching our star prepared to murder us in
slow motion. The study, published in Nature, uses supercomputer modeling
to map how solar radiation will interact with Earth's atmosphere
over the next billion years. These aren't prophecies from somebody

(00:54):
selling doomsday bunkers on late night television. These are peer
reviewed calculations about our collective demise, complete with decimal points
and error margins. The Sun will expand, temperatures will rise,
life will end. The math checks out, assuming you trust computers.
The size of shipping containers The good news, we have

(01:15):
time to finish our coffee. The bad news, every generation
from now until the year one billion twenty twenty one
will know exactly when their distant descendants are scheduled to perish.
You know, the scientists probably should have opened with in
approximately one billion years before dropping that specific date, but well,
subtlety apparently wasn't part of the research grant. The Sun

(01:37):
has been burning hydrogen since time began, providing warmth and
vitamin D and excellent conditions for growing tomatoes. Unfortunately, like
any relationship that lasts several billion years, complications arise. As
the Sun exhausts its fuel, it'll swell into what astronomers
call a red giant, a phase that sounds like a
rejected comic book villain but represents the largest threat to

(01:59):
Planet two survival in our Solar system's history. The expansion
itself takes eons, the problems start much earlier. Solar luminosity increases, gradually,
heating Earth like a casserole left in an oven set
to apocalypse mode. The simulations show temperatures climbing, oceans of
operating atmosphere thinning until it offers about as much protection

(02:21):
as a screen door on a submarine. Even conchroaches. Those
legendary survivors of nuclear tests and Department infestations will eventually
surrender by that day in the year one billion, twenty
twenty one, specifically October twenty first, so mark your descendants calendars.
Earth's surface will reach temperatures that sterilize all known life.

(02:42):
The most resilient bacteria will be the last organisms standing,
presumably while reflecting on their success in staying alive. Nobody
tell the bacteria their existence will outlast human civilization, though
by roughly nine hundred ninety nine million years, their egos
are already insufferable. Atmosphere oxygen levels face a long, slow decline,

(03:02):
according to the research. Ozanki notes, if true, one could
expect atmospheric two levels will eventually decrease in the distant future,
an observation delivered with the emotional weight of somebody reading
a grocery list. The Sun's increasing brightness does more than
raised temperatures. Solar storms, coronal mass ejections, and various stellar

(03:23):
tantrums disturb Earth's magnetic field, gradually reducing atmospheric oxygen over
time scales that make human history look like a coffee break.
The air we breathe slowly leaks away like a tire
with the world's most patient puncture. Human activities compound the
problem deforestation, pollution, fossil fuel combustion. We're essentially gracing the

(03:44):
sun to see who can destroy the atmosphere faster. Between
anthropogenic climate change and natural solar brightening, oxygen levels face
pressure from both directions simultaneously. The study suggests certain bacteria
might survive in this oxygen depleted future. These microorganisms would
inherit in Earth, resembling a hostile alien planet, raising the

(04:05):
philosophical question of whether surviving on a dead world constitutes
victory or just extended suffering. Recommended preparation is practicing holding
your breath for increasingly long periods. Start with thirty seconds,
work up to several hundred million years. Liquid water will
cease to exist on Earth's surface. According to NASA's projections,

(04:25):
the oceans currently covering seventy one percent of the planet
will boil away under increasing solar radiation, leaving empty basins
as monuments to what once was. These bodies of water
regulate global temperatures, drive weather patterns, produce oxygen through phytoplankton,
support biodiversity, and serve as vacation destinations for people who
enjoy sand. In unfortunate places without oceans, ecosystems collapse faster

(04:50):
than a Jenga tower during an earthquake. Marine life dies first.
Everything depending on oceans for temperature regulation follows immediately after,
which includes basically every other living thing. The ocean evaporation
occurs before the Sun reaches its red giant phase, meaning
Earth becomes a desiccated rock while the Sun remains technically

(05:11):
middle aged by stellar standards. No liquid water eliminates the
water cycle. No water cycle eliminates rain. No rain eliminates plants.
No plants eliminates oxygen production. No oxygen eliminates everything that breathes.
The final oceanic evaporation represents what researchers call the final
chapter in Earth's history academic language, for the planet becomes

(05:35):
a lifeless stone orbiting a dying star. The surface transforms
into something resembling Mars after its worst millennium, except Mars
never had to watch its oceans boil away while its
parent star slowly destroyed it. Real estate advice waterfread property
will maintain value right up until the end, assuming currency
and property ownership still exist. As concepts. Space colonization represents

(05:59):
less science fiction fantasy and more of a sensible long
term housing strategy. Now nasays Mars missions and deep space
exploration programs amount of humanities attempt to secure backup planets
before our current lease expires in a billion years, The
colonization window might be closing, though closing loses urgency when
measured in hundreds of thousands of years or I'm sorry,

(06:21):
hundreds of millions. No, actually, we roughly have won billion
years to establish off world settlements. That exceeds the entire
span of modern human existence, That provides enough time to
invent perfect and completely obsolete interstellar travel multiple times over
the clock does tick technically, with approximately nine hundred ninety
nine million, nine hundred ninety seven nine hundred ninety six

(06:44):
years remaining as of this episode, recording, serious decisions about
our species future loom on the horizon Mars colonization exoplanet
searches generation ships focusing on immediate problems like climate change, disease,
and economic inde quality instead of events scheduled for the
year one billion twenty twenty one. The current answer probably

(07:06):
involves yes to multiple options simultaneously, though prioritizing requires more
collective wisdom than humanity has demonstrated throughout recorded history. Personal
preparation checklist, Develop heat resistance to one thousand plus degrees fahrenheit.
Learn to function without oxygen, achieve immortality, master living without water,

(07:26):
Pack light for the trip. The NASA study provides something
humans rarely receive, a specific date for planetary extinction October
twenty first, one billion, twenty twenty one. Add it to
your digital calendar. Set a reminder for October twenty if
one billion, twenty twenty one. This knowledge carries weight. Earth

(07:46):
has a definite endpoint written into physics by stellar evolution laws.
The Sun will brighten, temperatures will climb, oxygen will decline,
oceans will evaporate. These processes already operate moving forward with
physical inevitability at geological speeds. Humanity can accept our eventual
fate or work toward escape through eventual means so distant

(08:09):
that your descendants millions of generations removed, won't resemble current
humans in any meaningful way. The available time is extraordinary.
The available time exceeds comprehension. The available time makes worrying
about the year one billion, twenty twenty one equivalent to
a may fly stressing about the universe's heat death. The
research confirms that nothing persists forever, not even planets. Earth

(08:34):
has hosted life for a really long time, but every
story requires an ending. Ours involves the Sun slowly cooking
our world until it resembles a forgotten pizza and a
malfunctioning oven set to eternity repair accordingly, stockpile supplies for
the next billion years. Make peace with higher powers, updata
state planning documents to account for geological time scals. Maintain

(08:57):
perspective about durations that render human civilism a brief flicker
against cosmic darkness. Final advisory, if you are listening to
this in the year one billion twenty twenty, disregard my
reassuring tone entirely, and panic with appropriate vigor. If you'd
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