Quote Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
...our species is so complex that it has the ability to evolve. Many would die, many would stay alive with machines, survivors will evolve. They find that Life can exist under the most extreme conditions, such as the surface of Titan.

And, besides, without the sun, we still have our oceans.
They haven't found life on Titan ( I do whish they had or will), but it's prettylikely they wont find anything. Life seems to need a very very particular enviorment to get started. Even if organic molicules are common.

Organisims need a constaint source of energy to survive. If the Sun did suddenly stop "burning" hydrogen we would have about a million years to prepare new means of energy. (Thats the amount of time it takes energy to travel from the center to the surface) We would have to depend on nuclear fuel, geothermal energy, and possably hydroelectric shoreline plants that feed off tidal gravity. We would also have to prepare for the mass cooling of the Earth, which would cool off to a very low temperature that would freeze the oceans.

We would be looking at the largest mass extintion possable next to the total distruction of the Earth.