There was a time in the life cycle of the universe, where it was unable to support life as we know it. Over billions of years, the universe has evolved from a point where space and time were moot, and has progressed through various stages so that we exist today. Yet, as we look out among the heavens, most of what we see in the night sky, are but shadows of Stellar phenomenon that are the universe's past. Everywhere we look (save for our own 'backyard') is a glimpse into the past, of how the universe looked millions and hundreds of millions of years ago. Even our own sun, which has tendered life on this planet for millennia, will one day consume its hydrogen fuel. The consequences being the end of life on earth as we know it. Yet, life would go on; the human species is a resilient one, and as science (mainly cosmology) has come to accept, the universe will most likely continue to expand indefinitely. And while such lends to optimism, there is a down side to this belief. For as the universe expands, all things move further apart. Galaxies, moving ever outward, will become all that much harder to reach. Add to that the fact 'undeniable', that life depends on stellar objects to survive. And, as with all things, stars die. Yet the birthrate of new stars has declined since the 'big bang', and there will come a point where there are no new stars created at all. When this occurs, planetary systems will begin to disperse, even black holes will eventually evaporate from lack of fuel. For though the universe may expand indefinitely, there is only so much matter and energy to go around. Even gravity, the most fundamentally powerful force known, must content with an ever-expanding universe. For as objects move further apart, the gravitational forces that hold them together begin to weaken. For the expansion of the universe also drains away kinetic energy, so the search for resources becomes more difficult as the universe expands. Requiring the traversing of ever greater distances (requiring energy) merely to acquire the very energy being consumed. And even the 'quantum vacuum', the cosmological constant of the universe, has a limitation. The emptiness of space is filled with 'strange' types of radiation (de Sitter radiation…also known as Gibbons-Hawking), yet they are of such a state that 'energy' cannot be garnered from them. Thus, one is confronted with the conundrum, of whether ones progeny will suffer the 'fate' of the universe (as by natural process, one must), but hey, we still have several billion years to mull it over.