It is actually 60 million years older than the previously thought age of the Earth which is actually billions years, 4.54 billion years to be precise according to Wikipedia.

May be not that young now? I can feel the sun already as global warming is nearing.

Our Sun wont go Supernova.

Like all dwarf stars, the Sun converts hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei by fusion to produce immense amounts of radiation and outward pressure.

But in five billion years or so the core will run out of hydrogen fuel, lose pressure and collapse under its own gravity.

As this inward crush boosts the temperature of the core, the remaining shell of hydrogen around it will heat up and trigger a new period of fusion, which in turn will cause the Sun’s outer envelope to expand to around 250 times its current radius and cool from white to red, becoming a Red Giant and devouring Earth along the way.

Unless we figure out how to stop it from happening.

Darrius Cole- "Unless we figure out how to stop it from happening."

As far as i know, It would be impossible to give the sun more years to live.

the only real solution i can think of to avoid the extinction of all life would be; to make a Metropolis Noah's Space ship. Then we gotta find a way to utilize animal wastes or other asteroids for fuel while we find a safe planet to land on.

...That could take thousands of years so there should be a variety of humans to ensure no inbreeding happens. The biggest hurdle however isn't making a massive spaceship, the whole world can dedicate lifetimes of preparation for that if need be.

The biggest problem is water. there needs to be a way replenish it, and to supply a journey that may end up taking hundreds of thousands of years to finally solve.

oldest modern human dna is about 340,000 years old that we know of. there was life before us. we have been here much longer then you think.

http://www.newscientist.com...