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I agree ... but wasn't the estimate that in about a billion to two billion years from now, Sol will grow so big that it will basically cook our entire planet and bake off our atmosphere and oceans and render the planet like Mercury. Our planet might be around for a few billion years after but nothing will survive.
Earth will be uninhabitable in a billion or two years yes.
I was responding more so to your original statement:
1 billion years the earth may be cooked, but the sun will have 3-5 billion years left before it can't fuse anymore. It's more accurate to say Earth will be destroyed by the natural growth of its own star.
The fascinating thing to all this to me was in realizing that everything has an end date ... an expiry date ... even if that date is millions or billions of years in the future. It doesn't matter to me or you because we'll be gone in within this century (barring any miraculous medical changes that allow us to live longer than a hundred years) but there is some sort of strange comfort that we are all equal that way ... knowing that no one and nothing is eternal (that we know of so far).