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We'll put a giant sunshade in the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point.
by meindnoch 2y ago
We'll put a giant sunshade in the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point.
- Nevermark 2y agoWe might need to do that by the end of this century. If we are able to harvest the solar system resources it would take by then. Trial run for the bigger “solar warming” event.
- meindnoch 2y agoSee, it all comes together! ^.^
- farmdve 2y agoSadly it is still only a stop-gap measure. The sun is for all intents and purposes, dying a slow death.
- meindnoch 2y agoSure, but it may keep Earth habitable for an extra billion years.
- psychoslave 2y agoUnfortunately it looks like we are more in the track to human inhabitable earth :(
- generic92034 2y agoLong before death it will expand to or almost to Earth's orbit. I doubt humanity could isolate Earth from that.
- BirAdam 2y agoYeah, but if humans exist by the time the sun fails us, they wouldn’t really be the same species as us, and they’d hopefully have progressed to the point that they could escape the Earth.
- OhioMan2943 2y agoYou're saying we wont maintain tradition and our "humanity"?. I like to be a little more optimistic and believe in us as a species transferring values until the end.
- Scarblac 2y agoLook at all types of mammal that exist, from us to platypuses to bats to whales. Evolved in a few hundred million years. Modern humans have been here for a few hundred thousand. In 500 million years absolutely anything could happen (if we survive this century).
- ta1243 2y agoSure, and entropy will end us all one way or another
- floxy 2y agoWe'll have colonized the galaxy in 10 million years. In 200 million years, I'd expect that some future historical society could undertake a project to clean out the heavy elements in the Sun to keep it going.