On Dec 3, 6:04*pm, A Moose in Love wrote:
If the sun goes red giant, we are doomed unless we colonize space.
However if the universe is expanding, but then decides to contract
back to zero, it doesn't matter whether we colonized other planets
does it? *And how many years would it take us to colonize other earth-
like planets? *To find them? *I think we're basically ****ed.

If you say we are doomed when the Sun goes red giant, you are assuming
we will all be immortal by then (you do say we, after all)....so
survival will be no problem at all!