Comment on Extremely common red dwarf L

• Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you were to do that, the Goldilocks zone would move inward as the Sun’s energy output dropped. So all the life on Earth would still die because the Earth would freeze.

  Still, since you have the tech to remove mass from a star, you would also surely have the ability to move the earth inward to keep it in the Goldilocks zone. But that still might not work. Being so much closer to the Sun, the Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere might not be sufficient to block flares and CMEs.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but we could remove mass slowly to avoid it from expanding and consuming the earth.

    Stellar engineering isn’t talked enough in science fiction

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    • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Check out some of Larry Niven’s Known Space stuff. The Pak Protectors built Ringworlds and the Puppetteer homeworlds were moved into a Klemperer rosette formation so they could take them all with them as they fled the galaxy.

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