I feel so much better knowing that our solar system is stable and that all we have to look forward to is the sun potentially swelling up like a giant balloon and swallowing us. That’s super comforting. /s.
Then again, by the time something like that occurs, I suspect if humanity is still around that we will have the ability to control the star itself by mining metals off of it and therefore reducing its mass and making it smaller or move the earth further out and then back in once it’s done expanding.
Humanity already has the science and knowledge to go about actually doing these things. We just don’t currently have the technology.
Take a look at the show, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. One of his phrases is that if brute force isn’t working, you’re just not using enough of it.
By then we will probably be inhabiting multiple solar systems and all of earths resources will be used up. Of course that’s assuming we don’t nuke ourselves first.
I prefer to see things go by the way of The Last Question
I had never read that, so thank you. That was incredibly interesting. Isaac Arthur discusses black hole farming after the stars have all gone out, but as far as I can tell, eventually all the black holes would also evaporate and leave nothing but nothingness.
Bold of you to assume we’ll make it that far. I’m not convinced that our current networked CO2 phase isn’t another great filter event.
Funny, never thought about the option to just remove the accumulated metal from a stars core. But in that distant of a future it should be possible to withstand the conditions and mine the metals to make the sun live longer
