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Why not just make the Sun immortal lol
It's possible with our current tech.
https://youtu.be/pzuHxL5FD5U
Extraordinarily expensive, but we could theoretically do it without inventing anything groundbreaking.
tbf i feel this applies to basically all of space-everything, we can do it with current technology, it'd just be a project the likes of which has never been even remotely considered before, probably taking hundreds of generations to start making progress on.
We just need to start working when there are obvious signs of problem, not something gradual that is too subtle, the sun has to start blinking or for us to catch the message.
I'm sure if we just turn it off and then turn it back on again, it'll be fine for another couple billion years.
Kinda, but also there's stuff that we need to learn new physics for, like FLT travel.
We can create some math saying it's technically possible, but we have no idea how to create the things we need to make it work.
Then there's hibernation. We see it in some animals, but we need to know new things about biology to make it work in people.
There are many categories of "possible" and some of them mean we just need enough people working on it. And some of them mean we need to learn new fundamental science to be able to even start to understand what it takes.
but we don't need FTL travel, we could travel the universe perfectly fine with just generation ships.
Like i said, we can do basically anything it's just that it will require many many many generations single-mindedly working towards it.
I mean it's worth it to be able to rewrite the laws of physics on the fly, we could even make the human soul real and rez everybody!
We could theoretically mostly offset the climate change
Wow. Those smart mfers came up with the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.
What's dumb about it? It sounds crazy but if it works it's not stupid right? Deeper in the article they suggest that using a lot more calcite than diamond would be far less expensive.
what
To be fair, there's a big difference between "extending the lift to trillions of years" and "extending the life forever."
No matter what we do, there's an end date to existence. Best we can do is huddle around a supermassive black hole for the last few trillion years until time itself ends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Helium extraction lol
Finally someone asking the real questions