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    While the universe is expanding, the Earth is not increasing its distance from the Sun in a way that threatens life. The Earth is moving about 13,000 km farther from the edge of the Sun over time as the Sun loses mass, but this gradual change will not affect sustainability on Earth for at least 500 million years. Eventually as the Sun expands in its later lifespan it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and likely destroy life on Earth through heating and loss of sunlight. However, this event is not predicted to occur for over 500 million years, so the current expansion of the universe does not pose an immediate risk to life on our planet.

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    While the universe is expanding, the Earth is not increasing its distance from the Sun in a way that threatens life. The Earth is moving about 13,000 km farther from the edge of the Sun over time as the Sun loses mass, but this gradual change will not affect sustainability on Earth for at least 500 million years. Eventually as the Sun expands in its later lifespan it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and likely destroy life on Earth through heating and loss of sunlight. However, this event is not predicted to occur for over 500 million years, so the current expansion of the universe does not pose an immediate risk to life on our planet.

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    While the universe is expanding, the Earth is not increasing its distance from the Sun in a way that threatens life. The Earth is moving about 13,000 km farther from the edge of the Sun over time as the Sun loses mass, but this gradual change will not affect sustainability on Earth for at least 500 million years. Eventually as the Sun expands in its later lifespan it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and likely destroy life on Earth through heating and loss of sunlight. However, this event is not predicted to occur for over 500 million years, so the current expansion of the universe does not pose an immediate risk to life on our planet.

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    Activity 1 (Earth and Life Science)

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    While the universe is expanding, the Earth is not increasing its distance from the Sun in a way that threatens life. The Earth is moving about 13,000 km farther from the edge of the Sun over time as the Sun loses mass, but this gradual change will not affect sustainability on Earth for at least 500 million years. Eventually as the Sun expands in its later lifespan it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and likely destroy life on Earth through heating and loss of sunlight. However, this event is not predicted to occur for over 500 million years, so the current expansion of the universe does not pose an immediate risk to life on our planet.

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    EARTH & LIFE SCIENCE

    ACTIVITY NO.1
    Direction: Answer the following question. Explain.
    1.) Do you think there are other life-forms exploring the universe aside from humans? Has Earth
    been explored already by other life-forms?
    We know that most oxygen on Earth is made by photosynthetic bacteria. So, if we
    find oxygen in exoplanets, that might mean there had been plants and maybe even
    animals that breathe oxygen. Life on other planets may be supported but it hasn’t
    been discovered yet. To support life on any planet there are special conditions required
    to provide sustainability to living beings. Earth provides these sustainable conditions
    to the beings that habituate the planet. Living beings need the atmosphere to be of a
    specific composition, with oxygen to breathe and live, the atmosphere and the plants
    provide them with this gas. The temperature of the planet matters a lot too, living
    beings would cease to exist if the temperature on the planet was too high or too low for
    them to handle. Water is also a very important factor for planetary habitation. Water is
    not just required by animals, but plants too and the planet earth provides this
    resource in abundance. Life on other planets would be possible if they had these
    supporting factors that help living beings survive. Coming to the fact that the universe
    is massive, and it might just hold trillions of planets and any one of them could
    support life, but the scientists haven’t explored enough to learn about any other
    planets that support life. The solar system that habituates humans is massive. It
    holds a huge number of celestial bodies, like planets, stars, and asteroids among
    others. There is a total of 8 planets in the solar system but living beings have been
    observed only on one planet and that is the earth. Scientists have not witnessed any
    signs of life on any of the other 7 planets yet. Many people want to learn why is life not
    possible on all planets. Mars came very close, when the scientists sent the Mars Rover,
    they discovered that there was once a huge presence of water on this planet. Many
    scientists also believe that life before the earth existed on Mars and was then seeded to
    earth. There is no way of actually knowing if any other planet has or will support life
    other than earth, the people will just have to wait and see what the scientific
    discoveries unfold for them. Despite what has been depicted in countless cartoons,
    comic books, science fiction books, magazines, movies, television programs, YouTube,
    and computer games, we have no evidence extraterrestrials exist, much less have ever
    visited Earth. Given the vast distance between stars it is actually quite likely that,
    even if they exist, they never have been to Earth.

    2.) If the universe is expanding, does that mean Earth is also increasing its distance from the sun?
    Will this possibility affect the sustainability of life on Earth?

    Because of the expansion of our Universe, no small groups of things in our


    Universe stick together like our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy in what’s called the
    Local Supercluster. But the Earth is getting about 13,000 km farther from the edge of
    the Sun due to the Sun losing mass but this won’t affect the life on Earth for about
    1/2 a billion to a billion years. What people should realize, is that the sun is a star.
    And stars don't live forever. There is a likelihood, towards the end of the sun’s
    lifespan, it will expand, it will take up Mercury's, and Venus's orbits. Those planets
    will just burn up inside the sun. When that happens, it will likely burn everything on
    the earth’s surface (though it will take a little longer. It wouldn't be an instant death).
    But let’s say the earth survives that. Then first, there would no longer be any sunlight.
    Temperatures would drop to below freezing at its warmest. Our food supply would die
    out. Life would die out. But let’s take another hypothetical. Say we survive that. Then
    without a star to orbit, every planet left in the solar system would be thrown out into
    space on random trajectories. We would have no neighbor planets, no stars, and no
    way to sustain life. Which is why the only option to sustain life, is to leave the planet.
    Rather than trying to conserve resources, humans should be using those resources to
    develop new technologies, that will allow humanity to voyage outside of our own solar
    system. I'm not saying to live on a spaceship, but rather to be able to find a planet,
    live, then leave when its unable to support life.

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