Shall we lift our planet? As the sun grows gradually hotter across the next 100 million years (unrelated to our current climate change problems), Earth will grow uninhabitable. Astrophysicist and science fiction author David Brin shows why current concepts for how to shift our world to a cooler orbit are "just plain crazy." But there is another way! One that may be just crazy-clever enough that it... just... might... work. That is, if our descendants take a really long view of their responsibility to take care of our nursery world.

For more technical details see: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11...

David Brin's books include The Postman, Startide Rising, Existence, and Earth, as well as his non-fiction work, The Transparent Society, dealing with issues of privacy and secrecy. Website: http://www.davidbrin.com/
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