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#1 Trent

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Posted 04 August 2010 - 04:09 AM


Can anyone link me to an organization that seeks to deal with the Sun engulfing the Earth, the Sun's supernova, the heat death of the universe, or any other existential risk that is at least 100,000 years off? If there are any folks like that elsewhere, they either must have a sense of humour or a wacky sense of perspective. Either way, it'd be interesting to investigate.

Maybe after SENS, cryonics, nanomedicine, and mind uploading are perfected I'll start the Institute to Prevent Heat Death :-P


P.S. I already know about Lifeboat and Long Now and think both are neat.

Edited by Trent, 04 August 2010 - 04:11 AM.


#2 Luna

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 05:16 AM

I think those stuff are too far off and we lack technology and understanding to even bother or know if they exist for the heat death case.

As for the sun, same story but does exist + I heard of some ideas already.. doesn't seem to be like to big of a problem, especially considering the time frame.
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#3 lunarsolarpower

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 09:42 AM

Sounds like we just need to give the earth a little boost out to 1.15 AU for it to survive this event. So yeah, I would say people are concerned about it already. link

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Posted 06 August 2010 - 02:30 AM

Sounds like we just need to give the earth a little boost out to 1.15 AU for it to survive this event. So yeah, I would say people are concerned about it already. link


Now to prevent the heat death of the universe, get infinite energy, of course first of all, defeat trauma and aging/diseases causes of death so we personally don't die.. and we are fine ;) Once we're done let's meet at the pool!
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#5 Arcanyn

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Posted 23 November 2010 - 01:46 PM

Sounds like we just need to give the earth a little boost out to 1.15 AU for it to survive this event. So yeah, I would say people are concerned about it already. link


That's just to stop it from being swallowed by the sun when it goes red giant. We'd have to move the Earth a bit more than that if we want to keep it in the habitable zone for the rest of the 5 billion years preceding that (Earth will no longer be in the habitable zone in 1 billion years time)

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 08:14 AM

It's nice to keep the earth around for historical reasons, but it is not vital. Man should by then be able to leave the earth and live amongst the stars. Terraformed worlds can provide similar environments, and virtual reality can preserve the appearance texture and feel of all historical locations on earth. Works of art, and even monuments could be moved off-world if need be.

#7 platypus

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 08:59 AM

I hope this is a joke.

#8 Trent

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Posted 03 December 2010 - 08:14 PM

I hope this is a joke.


I thought I heard about a society dedicated to saving humanity from the death of the Sun, but my Google searches haven't turn up anything. Even if they're crackpots, or just silly folks, it would be really interesting (anthropologically).

#9 Ghostrider

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Posted 11 December 2010 - 06:19 PM

There's a list or priorities...right now I am more worried about death by aging / disease than sun related catastrophe...

#10 Trent

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Posted 11 December 2010 - 08:55 PM

Do folks on this forum have no imagination / sense of humour?

#11 InquilineKea

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Posted 09 May 2011 - 04:34 AM

I'm interested in the problem, and I may actually end up working on it as a side project. For now, though, it's just doing 3D models of the Earth's atmosphere under various configurations (but not the long-term future of Earth).

#12 Alex Libman

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Posted 22 May 2011 - 09:43 PM

Those risks are so far-off that the best way to contribute to their mitigation today is to contribute to the general advancement of science and technology.

And you know, as a libertarian, I am contractually obligated to say that: the greatest danger to their advancement is the risk of a socialist world government resulting in mismanagement and stagnation of human progress... Ron Paul 2012 - our last best hope against spiraling inflation, the military-industrial complex, and the heat death of the universe! :-D

#13 Guest

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Posted 23 May 2011 - 08:02 PM

I don't see a problem here. As of todays timeframe the singularity will arrive in the 2040s. After that there will be an explosion of science and technology and every other month the science/technology output will double. With this rate we will have unimaginable powerful technologies available by the 2060s and don't have to worry about anything and the least about laughable matters as the sun's life cycle. I hope that clarifies everything.

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#14 Smarter

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 07:11 PM

Is science and not expected to double its progress ever year after 2030?

I think humans will have colonized over planets by then, and a mass scale evacuation of the solar system will be possible.




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