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Sun is cooling down and what that means for us
- nopinsight 17y agoIs there anyway we can affect the sun's cooling down process? Maybe it can help offset the effect of global warming somewhat. I know it's a crazy idea. But many great inventions are borne out of crazy ideas. Someone to take on this?
- tudorachim 17y agoOh, come on. There's the good kind of can-do attitude, which is useful, and then this kind, where if you think you want something enough, anything can happen. Consider how much effort had to go into just putting a man on the moon, and compare that to the effort required to affect the fundamental energy processes of a body in which one million Earths can fit. The two problems are many, many orders of magnitude apart. Affecting the Sun in a noticeable way is well out of our reach now, and with high probability will be for the next millennium. EDIT: I'm full of shit, it's 1 million
- randomwalker 17y agoAnother fun fact: the power output of the sun is 4 * 10^26 Watts.
- fhars 17y agoThe good thing is that this might mean that the civilization destroying solar magnetic storm to hit us in 2012 may not be quite that bad, giving us a few more decades to fix our high voltage power nets to be more resilient. But then, predictions are difficult, especially if they are about the future.
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- danbmil99 17y agoI thought it meant because of the Oracle takeover. My bad.