Re: [PATCH] Implement fast hash-collision detection

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:07, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

However, it may be of interest that the Sun is expected to burn out in a
mere 10^10 years[1].

Off topic, but it's a a lot sooner than that. The total age of the sun
is is around 10^10 (10 billion) years, but we're already ~4.6 billion
years along that line.

However the Sun is currently in a stage of gradual heating until it
turns into a red giant in ~5 billion years. In around 500 million
years the earth will be uninhabitable as we know it, and in around 1
billion years the surface will be hot enough to have boiled all the
oceans. In other words the earth in a billion years will probably look
similar to how Venus looks now.