Space/Science — HabitableZone

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If you can wait a bit...
ljk — (archived)

In a few billion years, when the Sun starts expanding into
a red giant, its decreasing mass will actually cause the
planets to move outwards in their orbits from our star a bit.

This probably won't save Mercury and Venus if nothing is
done, but our descendants (or whoever is still around then)
may find this boost useful in pushing Venus outward to
make it habitable - which they learned from reading this
very thread in HZ in their ancient historical archives.

Of course if we turn the whole Sol system into a Dyson Shell,
the problems with terraforming Venus go away.

Of course 2, rather than trying to make Venus fit our
biology, hows about we genetically engineer people who
wouldn't mind 90 Earth atmospheres of pressure, 900 F
temps, and sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide for air.

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