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How can one maintain the Earth's ability to support complex life?

Date: 2021-05-22 04:26 pm (UTC)
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Going to assume that's "one billion years from now".

The Sun should be about 10% brighter than it is now. It might be a good idea to put a nice big station out at the L1 Lagrangian point with adjustable sunshading. On those timescales, moving a nice big asteroid there is feasible. It's about 3-4x the distance to Luna.

A billion years is a substantial time for evolution. Multicellular life is only about half that old. There will probably be several die-offs and superspeciation events in that time period.

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