Moving the Earth

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prospero
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"In a few billion years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, swallowing the Earth. This can be avoided by moving the Earth farther out from the Sun, keeping the temperature roughly constant. That can be accomplished by tweaking the orbits of comets and asteroids so they pass close to the Earth in such a way that they add energy to the Earth's orbit. Since the Sun's expansion is slow, roughly one such encounter every 6,000 years would suffice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#Moving_the_Earth

What a relief. We need no space ship, the Earth is the ship, we just need space and free software.

jxself
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Moving farther away from the sun can also be a solution to global warming.

We'll also need an updated calendaring system for the additional time needed to rotate around the sun.

prospero
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True. And true.

The article said nothing about the moon, but we may be able to get it to follow us and switch to any of our lunar calendars.

EDIT: on afterthought, let us not disturb the moon. We just need to decide the number of days we want in a year, and divide the new duration of the year by that number. Then use similar asteroid orbit tweaking to adjust spinning speed. Welcome to the 45 hour day! No more week-ends!

iShareFreedom
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I see the sun moving, during the day, that is a true and i cant recognice as a reality other thing who are impossible to replicate for everyus

prospero
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Remember: if you see moving suns, suns also see moving you. Additionally, you may consider dosing psylocibin down.

EDIT: down-voting is deemed deadly offense in the Troll Lounge. Up-voting is tolerated.

iShareFreedom
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I have several haters, dont worry they have a campaign for dislike my comments

prospero
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This is the Troll Lounge. The voting system is unenforceable and no one can hear you scream.

andyprough
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I just committed a troll lounge capital offense by upvoting every post in this thread. I await my execution with calm dignity. Although I prefer not to be burned at the stake, and I don't like needles, and I don't like anything touching my neck, and I don't like being pushed underwater. I would prefer to be sentenced to death by chocolate.

prospero
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Ooh...death by enchocolatation. No one can hear you scream while you have your mouth full of chocolate.