DanielLC comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 December 2014 04:02:35PM 2 points [-]

I wasn't sure there was a way to do it within current physics.

Now we get to the hard question: supposing we (broadly interpreted, it will probably be a successor species) want to move the earth outwards using those little gravitational nudges, how do we get civilizations with a sufficiently long attention span?

Comment author: DanielLC 09 December 2014 06:01:23PM 1 point [-]

If we haven't gotten one by then, we're doomed. Or at least, we don't get a very good planet. We could still have space-stations or live on planets where we have to bring our own atmosphere.