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Given that the sun will die in about 5B Years, this is a bit of a gimmick :-D
by vmurthy 7y ago
Given that the sun will die in about 5B Years, this is a bit of a gimmick :-D
- red75prime 7y agoSun will become a red giant in about 5 billion years. Space habitats, and habitats on moons of gas giants will still be possible.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoBy then we could probably tow Sol over to a comparable system using a Shkadov thruster and jump ship to a new sun.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoAfter one billion years, the speed would be 20 km/s and the displacement 34,000 light-years, a little over a third of the estimated width of the Milky Way galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoIn 5 billion years, humanity will either not exist anymore, or will be a Type III+ civilization. We certainly won't be impacted by anything that might happen to the sun in terms of its life cycle. A coronal mass ejection might be a problem at some point though.