i gotta say i find this an unnecessaryly depressing point of veiw really

im with ian banks we will all be living on orbital rings or 100's of miles long conscious star ships...

why huddle round a dying star or inside a cramped astroid?

there are plenty of planets around also...

and plenty of time...

and i dont know if any of you have read the cosmic anthropic principle..
but in it it is suggested that life will find a way to exist from the shear energy of the universe long after all the embers of the big bang have faded

life will find a way!!