"A Moose in Love" wrote in message
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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.

Yea ... and it's right around the corner, too ... about another 5 Billion
years,
really a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale.
I suggest you start looking for a "wormhole" to a nearby Universe as a
backup escape route.