re: Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now...

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Tom Brosz — 10/10/2003 6:15:40 PM (archived)

I figure in a couple of billion years, we'll be able to unscrew the old sun and screw in a fresh one.* Assuming we still live on a planet at all. Don't sweat it.

*So, how many people does it take to change a star?

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Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - Carl - 10/10/2003 3:12:43 PM
- I could tune the earth's magnetic field.... - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/11/2003 7:00:08 AM
- Don't move Earth... Stir the Sun - Adam - 10/11/2003 3:43:50 AM
- Manekatopokanemahedo - from Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Origin - 10/11/2003 1:29:58 AM
- re: Andromeda and our Galaxy - Raoul - 10/10/2003 10:05:35 PM
- how to move the Earth away from an evolving main sequence star - phil - 10/10/2003 6:49:56 PM
  - World Out of Time.. er.. the Way... - Adam - 10/11/2003 3:59:20 AM
- re: Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 6:15:40 PM
  - *So, how many people does it take to change a star? - et - 10/10/2003 6:39:39 PM
    - So, how many people does it take to change a star? - Nick Hoffman - 10/11/2003 3:32:59 PM
      - LOL!! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/11/2003 4:25:42 PM
    - Nah...just turn it off and let it cool down for about fifteen minutes. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/10/2003 8:28:04 PM
- re: An 'old' idea. - Marcia - 10/10/2003 5:04:11 PM
- re: Temporal discontinuity - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 4:25:11 PM
- 5 BILLION YEARS may seem like a long time... - McFly - 10/10/2003 4:16:34 PM
- re: The Habitable zone - Raoul - 10/10/2003 4:07:44 PM
- re: Really Bummed out, 5 BILLION YEARS from now... - DWC - 10/10/2003 3:35:34 PM
  - re: The volume of the works of Man - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 4:33:02 PM
- We could alter the moon's orbit in such a way that it would pull the Earth into a safer orbit around the Red Giant Sun - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 3:25:29 PM
  - re: Momentum exchange - Success_Machine - 10/10/2003 6:10:46 PM
  - Uhh, Nuke waste dumps on the MOON? - Carl - 10/10/2003 3:47:30 PM
    - just move a large gravitational source to hover somewhere around L2 - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 4:53:42 PM
      - Wait... I think it would need to be somewhere just beyond L2... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 4:58:04 PM
        
        Wait...Danger, Danger, Danger... - Scott Evil - 10/10/2003 5:04:29 PM

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