Elon Musk: Scientists use supercomputer to confirm billionaire’s doomsday prediction

US President Donald Trump’s recent re-allocation of funds away from certain NASA projects and toward Elon Musk’s mission to Mars research with SpaceX may be on the back of an Elon Musk doomsday prediction.

The billionaire Tesla owner stated this week that “eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun” and he now has the science to back up the claim.

Researchers from NASA and the Tōhō University in Japan have used supercomputers and mathematical models to forecast the sun’s long-term evolution and proved that life on Earth will become impossible by the year 1,000,002,021.

With a gradual rise in temperature due to the ever-increasing size of the sun, oxygen levels will continue to decrease, eventually making the earth uninhabitable.

The Daily Mail are reporting that the research proved that in around five billion years, the sun will enter its red giant phase—a stage when it runs out of hydrogen fuel and dramatically expands.

At that point it will likely engulf the inner planets, including Mercury, Venus and possibly Earth.

“Mars is life insurance for life collectively,” Musk told Fox’s Jesse Watters.

“The sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilisation because Earth will be incinerated.”

NASA has long warned that, eventually, the Sun will run out of energy, but it also notes that the Sun is still less than halfway through its lifetime and is expected to last another five billion years.

Researchers created year-by-year simulations to predict changes in climate and gas composition, according to the study published in Nature Geoscience.

They ran more than 400,000 simulation to forecast when the world will end.

The study, published in Nature Geoscience, determined that the loss of oxygen will lead to a mass extinction on Earth.

Musk said on Monday his mission for Mars is for it to one day “grow by itself if the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, whether that is because civilisation died with a bang or a whimper.”

“If the resupply ships are necessary for Mars to survive, then we have not created life insurance. We’ve not created life insurance for life collectively.

“So that’s the key point in the future where [the] destiny of life, as we know it, will forever be affected, is when Mars becomes self-sustaining.”

President Trump took the first step in helping Musk reach this lofty goal, by signing off on a massive shift in funding priorities at NASA - including the largest cut to the space agency’s budget in its history.

On May 1, the Trump administration slashed $US6 billion that would have paid for research, operations on the International Space Station, and future missions, including the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.

That project has already cost NASA billions and aimed to bring samples collected by the Martian rovers back to Earth to be studied.

At the same time, the cuts will allow NASA to allocate over $US1 billion to manned space missions, ensuring ‘that America’s human space exploration efforts remain unparalleled, innovative, and efficient.’

The White House proposal emphasizes the importance of NASA beating China back to the moon and putting the first humans on Mars, with the latter being the overarching goal of Musk’s spaceflight company, SpaceX.