Earth Is Drifting Away From The Sun, And So Are All The Planets

Forbes ^ | 1/3/19 | Ethan Siegel

[DannyTN]

1.5 centimeters a year

What if you round down?

[MeganC]

If you consider that the sun’s gravity diminishes as you get further out from it then the 1.5cm would gradually increase over the course of one billion years.

It also means the earth was up to 100,000 miles closer to the sun in the distant past and that made almost no difference at all to the earth’s climate.

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[DannyTN]

We might have to nuke the other side of the planet at night.

[LydiaLong]

If only Trump hadn’t backed out of the Climate Summit.

[minnesota_bound]

#3 You are correct as global means more hot air which is expanding the planets orbit.....

[fuzzylogic]

I’d like to know how many climate computer models take this into account! I bet none.

It may not be a short term factor but that they don’t take into account the changing activity in the Sun is problematic for me.

[jonno]

“They honestly expect us to believe that baloney.”

That was my initial reaction as well.

[Political Junkie Too]

So this solves global warming, right?

-PJ

[SunkenCiv]

It's called tidal transfer of momentum, and is also the reason the Moon shows the same face to the Earth during its orbit.

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[P.O.E.]

When the world is runnin’ down
You make the best of what’s still around...

- The Police

[Tell It Right]

One thing I read many years ago by Reasons to Believe at www.reasons.org (a bunch of old Earth Christians who are kinda science nerdy) is that it's amazing that the age of the Earth just happens to coincide with the age of the sun. Of the billions of years the Earth has there's only a relatively brief period where advanced life can exist on earth. Likewise the sun's lifespan is mostly chaotic except for a fairly brief time in which life can exist on a planet orbiting the sun.

Isn't it amazing that it just so happens that the Earth's window of time for life coincides with the sun's window of time for life. More than amazing, it's an example of a creative Hand.

[SERKIT]

The Dems are trying to find out how to tax this phenomenon.

[pabianice]

“The Midnight Sun,” Twilight Zone

[CaptainPhilFan]

Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

[numberonepal]

So, should I scrap the plans for the Dyson Sphere or not? Tic-toc!

[jmacusa]

The Moon is also drifting away from the Earth at about two inches a year. At a distance between Earth and the Moon of around 240,000 miles it’s a kind of slow drift. Course, we could always have a big chunk of iron or a comet come smashing into us. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.

[shanover]

For now everybody needs to go to one side of the planet.

[Simon Green]

It’s due to a very simple reason. As the Sun fuses hydrogen into helium, a small portion of its mass is turned into energy. As the Sun loses mass, the gravitational pull it exerts lessens (very) slightly, resulting in everything orbiting it (very) slowly expanding their orbits.

[Reagan80]

Guess I’m going to need to fire up the SUV and let it idle in the driveway every night to counteract Global Cooling.

[AFreeBird]

Oh, we can tax it. Sure as shooting a dingbat dem will bring it up.