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FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Joke's on you, Sun. We can just leave. Or maybe even fix you.

(So many doomer "we'll kill ourselves first" responses in this thread. How science of everyone.)

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Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We can just dump some comet ice into the oceans and cool Earth off. And if it gets really bad, we’ll just get all the robots on one side of the earth and hit the gas at the right moment, thus increasing the distance from the sun.

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Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

How science of everyone

For 50 years, science has been telling us that we’re well and truly fucked if we don’t do something about climate change. We didn’t. I don’t think the species is gonna die out (thought millions of other species will and are). You’re talking like we’re gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years? Or colonize outer planets? It’s science fiction…at least for next few 100 years. We can’t rely on a deus ex machina save…we gotta take care of the planet we evolved to live on…if we aren’t strong enough for that, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere near K-II.

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- FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  You're talking like we're gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years?
  
  Hardly. We have plenty of time for that, there's no rush.
  
  Or colonize outer planets? It's science fiction...at least for next few 100 years.
  
  Again, a few hundred years is nothing. The sun won't become problematic for a few hundred million years.
  
  We can't rely on a deus ex machina save.
  
  Things like Dyson swarms and star lifting are not "deus ex machina", they're scientifically rigorous proposals.
  
  if we aren't strong enough for that, I don't think we're getting anywhere near K-II.
  
  Getting to K-II means not needing the planet we evolved to live on.
  
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