Saving the Sun
Posted in The Future, Humanity on January 25th, 2006In about 4 to 5 billion years our Sun’s core will exhaust its supply of hydrogen and begin to expand into a red giant. THIS COULD KILL US ALL. Unless… we stop it.
Current technology is not enough to prevent this cataclysm, BUT by the time 4 to 5 billion years later rolls around, or even before then, if we are still alive, we will be MUCH more highly advanced. We will have advanced brain powers, either through nanosynaptic augmentations which increase our brains’ speed and ability by many orders of magnitude, or through a mental interface to a fourth dimensional collective mindspace which allows all humans to share thoughts and learn from each other (not unlike the ‘blogosphere), or something else*. Anyway, with our highly advanced brainpower and technology we will be able to handle many things.
Even a simpleton from 2006 like me can make the simple and obvious calculation that by feeding Jupiter, which is mostly hydrogen, into the Sun, we can get several million more years out of it. And it is not beyond the realm of imagination that future generations will have even more brilliant ideas than me. So, all in all, this “Sun dying and killing us all with it” thing is probably not as inevitable as all these scientists whine about it being sometimes.
kthxbye.
(*please note that this billions of years later enlightened superbrain future is much later in time than the future when the dystopian world government will use time travel to recruit our near future’s retired ‘bloggers to power their Orwellian propaganda machines.)