We lied to an entire generation. Not that climate change isn’t real (it obviously is). But that there’s no hope if we don’t neuter ourselves. The future is incredibly bright, and I’m angry at those who lied to young people about this.

@Robotbeat My kids are all broken up by the eventual destruction of the earth by the sun and now I have to do the math on a solar sail statite to drag the earth further from the sun over billions of years.

@codingfodder @Robotbeat You could also do stellar engineering. Remove enough mass from the Sun and it'll basically become a red dwarf, burning *a lot* longer. Of course, then it would burn much less bright, so you'd have to move Earth closer. Another option would be mixing more hydrogen into the core.

@Graham_117 @Robotbeat I don't know how to do that though.

@codingfodder @Robotbeat Yeah, "star lifting" is extremely speculative, to say the least. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017JBIS..… arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02338