Posted on 06/10/2023 4:29:39 AM PDT by Libloather
Astronomers know full well that the sun is very slowly getting brighter, and in a billion or so years time it will make Earth too hot to live on.
One scientist is now proposing a radical solution that will let humans live on this planet for longer – physically moving it away from the sun.
Albert Zijlstra, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Manchester, suggests shifting Earth further back from the sun by about three million miles.
At the moment, Earth is orbiting the sun at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million km) but this needs to extended to at least 96 million miles (155 million km), he says.
This movement would extend a year to 380 days, meaning we'd have to insert an extra 15 days into a calendar year somewhere.
'Earth will get warmer, and warmer – best estimates are that in one or two billion years, the oceans will begin to boil away,' Professor Zijlstra told MailOnline.
How would it work?
When a planet (such as Earth) slows down in its orbit, it moves closer to the sun. Likewise, when a planet speeds up in its orbit, it moves away from the sun.
Therefore, if we want to move Earth away from the sun, the objective is to speed up Earth.
Professor Zijlstra proposes doing this using a gravity assist or 'slingshot' manoeuvre, which are already used to speed up spacecraft after they've been launched from Earth.
It's a little-known fact that gravitational slingshots can also be used to reduce the speed of a spacecraft, which have the opposite effect on the planet - speeding it up.
Rather than a spacecraft - which would be too small - he proposes using a massive asteroid the size of a city.
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We need to find a way to move “scientists” away from societal decisions.
Kooks with kooky ideas.
Does anyone care what will be happening in a billion years? We will be long gone . Idiots.
I think we should send phony “journalists” from the Daily Mail to get this job done.
So it’s not man made climate change it’s the sun. I’ll be damned!
Her out-of-the-box thinking introduced the ingenious solution for landing a spacecraft on the Sun.
Simply do it at night.
She should be in charge of this program.
The architecture of this is EXACTLY the wrap-up smear which the evil Nancy Pelosi detailed some time back.
Now applied to the climate grifting, and coming to the same old conclusion. Money. Note the sentence. The assertion of "our fault" precedes the 'lots of people have said so, and so it must be true' argument.The wrap-up smear. Applied to "science." By "Experts." All bow and fork over the money, rubes!
Could it be moved to where Alderaan used to be after the Death Star destroyed it in A New Hope?
What a moron.
This guy doesn’t belong in a learning institution. He belongs in a mental institution where he can read space alien comic books all day.
Wait, I thought the sun will continue to grow in size before its final exit? Wouldn’t that mean we would have to continue to move away from the sun? Or do we continue to adapt to our world as it changes and has changed throughout the eons.
To be only flaw in Darwinism is that sometimes it misses the target (and needs help). /s
These people are mentally ill.
If you move the Earth, won’t gravity snap it back to its previous position?
As a kid in the 1970s, I remember watching a Spider-Man cartoon episode I believed was called “Rocketship Earth” in which the villain used lasers and a volcano to move the other away from the Sun and Spidy had to reverse it in the end.
When cartoons become adult science, who would have ever thought?
We really don’t stand a chance, do we?
What could go wrong?
A slight miss could result in the asteroid hitting earth, wiping out all life on the planet. The gravitational gradient during the assist would cause massive earthquakes and an unknown amount of volcanic activity. Then there is the issue with what will happen with the orbit of the moon.
This professor needs to study a little astrodynamics before opening his mouth.
It was much hotter a few million years ago than it is now. It was much cooler 20000 years ago than it is now. It will get hotter and cooler many times before the sun expands enough to screw up the planet for good (in a billion plus years) Right now just enjoy the ride
What could go wrong with this idea?
ROFLOL
I can’t believe what I just read. Maybe the globalist are right. The human condition needs a Great Reset. We could build asylums for a hundred years and still not have enough beds for all of the nuts that are loose.
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