Fred Adams, a physicist at the University of Michigan, has proposed a novel way in which the earth might escape this fate.

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Other space entrepreneurs want to make rockets to escape Earth.

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The problem becomes less acute once they've cleared the atmosphere, but the high speeds required to escape the Earth's gravitational field (more than 6.8 miles per second) necessitate an enormous amount of energy.

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Rainmaker Entertainment recently released Escape From Planet Earth theatrically, which featured the voice acting of Jessica Alba, Brandon Fraser, Rob Corddry, Ricky Gervais and Sofia Vergara.

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Venus on Earth is more spare, and maybe a little less wild, than Dengue Fever's breakout album, Escape from Dragon House.

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