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The sun only has 2.4 billion years left

According to this[1], you're off by a few billions years. The sun has enough hydrogen to burn for another 5 and a half billion years. After that, it has enough helium to burn for another billion years.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaust...

Yes, but the sun is also getting hotter over time. This will push the habitable zone past Earth's orbit in somewhat less than two billion years[1].

[1]http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2012.0938

Yeah but the Earth will be unable to sustain itself during the end of the Sun's life. Maybe I should say the Earth has 2.4 billion years left, not the Sun.

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