Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes

Canadian academic Martin Beech has written a text that crosses the line between science fiction and science fact. Put simply, his book details a method that just might be able to stop the Sun from losing its power and, ultimately, save humanity and the Earth itself.

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Main Author Beech, Martin
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Published New York, NY Springer New York 2007
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Subjects
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Solar system
Stars
Sun
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Abstract Canadian academic Martin Beech has written a text that crosses the line between science fiction and science fact. Put simply, his book details a method that just might be able to stop the Sun from losing its power and, ultimately, save humanity and the Earth itself.
AbstractList Canadian academic Martin Beech has written a text that crosses the line between science fiction and science fact. Put simply, his book details a method that just might be able to stop the Sun from losing its power and, ultimately, save humanity and the Earth itself.
This book is about an audacious idea: asteroengineeringliterally, the physical engineering of a star, especially the star we call our Sun. It is an idea on the grandest of scales. Part science fiction, part science fact, asteroengineering is a response to a very definite and a very real problem, a problem that our distant descendants will one day have to face. It is also a universal problem that will be experienced at some stage or other by every extraterrestrial civilization that has or will exist. Indeed, the problem to be addressed resides within the parent stars of each and every life-supporting planetary system within our galaxy. In short, stars puff up to become luminous red giants as they age, and by doing this they vaporize those planets previously situated in the habitability zone where life can otherwise thrive. As their parent star ages and approaches the red giant phase, a civilization has two options open to it: stay at home, or pack up and leave. The latter option would require the hapless civilization to cocoon itself within giant spaceships and then set itself adrift in the uncharted depths of space. If a civilization chooses to stay put, however, then all life will endunless, that is, something is done about the demise of its parent star.
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