> If we still need to live around Sol when the sun goes red giant, we will have deserved to be selected out of existence.

"We" is doing a lot over work over, what, five billion years? That's longer than the history of existing life. Literally unimaginable.

I would expect "I'm from Earth" to get about as much respect as "I'm from Olduvai Gorge". Well, isn't that nice for you, basically, but that's it. It's not a hard guess, we already don't reward people just because they were born near the origin of humanity.

It'll be a while, though. There will certainly still be a long period of time where Earth is the most powerful by sheer inertia, no matter how fast space civilization develops.

In Foundation, humanity is so far removed from Earth that people who claim Sol is the ancestral homeland of humans are seen as religious lunatics

Yes. By then humanity will either be extinct or living in Dyson swarms around at least one other star or around a black holes. Even for Dyson swarm levels of technology black holes enable many new capabilities because they are an infinite heat sink that actually get COLDER as you drop matter into them.

In the setting of the Traveller rpg, which has many thousands of years of time since people came from Earth. Earth is a bit of a backwater, the people on Earth have a bit of a superiority complex, but no one else cares. Its just some random planet many jumps away from the core, why would anyone care?

It’s incredibly optimistic and egotistical to even think that humans will be around that long.

I mean, in 10 million years we will have colonized the Milky Way. Seems likely that a historical society in 200 million years will be vacuuming out heavy elements from the sun to keep it chugging along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting#Stellar_husbandry

lol, you think we’ll live a hundred years let alone a couple billion? Given our pathological inability to solve even the most basic and obvious existential risks, I give odds of seeing the end of humanity in my lifetime at around 50%.

I mean we still put forever chemicals in our food containers. There’s a segment of the population that aggressively opposes efforts to save humanity from global warming (the earth abides but humanity is quite fragile). We’ve had at least six known near misses in nuclear annihilation. We’ve been utterly unable to stamp out obvious misinformation, lies and utter bullshit in public discourse (so we can’t even talk about the real problems with anything approaching consensus on facts)

The good news is we really don’t have to worry about the timeframes where the death of our star would cause problems.