To be fair, there is some evidence for a global flood. All you have to do is look on the tops of various mountain ranges and you'll find plenty of fossils and minerals to indicate is was underwater at one point.
Of course, you have to ignore the fact that it can all be explained by plate tectonics.
You mean interesting as in "Hmmm, we might want to have some means of space exploration in the next century at the latest"
A century is a very short amount of time on the solar timeline. The Earth won't fall into the Sun for 5 billion years or so, and even then, the Sun will have lost enough mass that models predict the Earth may be flung off into deep space rather than falling into the Sun.
The more immediate concern is that over the next 1 billion years, the luminosity of the Sun will increase about 10% or so, which should be fairly devastating to life on Earth. But, thats due to the Sun getting older, not the Earth getting closer.
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