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I saw a paper just a few years ago about how to shift the Earth to a higher orbit to mitigate solar brightening/expansion. It involved a large asteroid in a careful orbit that could gradually pull the whole Earth to a higher orbit.

Probably couldn't do it tomorrow, but sounded like something we might be able to do in a few hundred years instead of tens of thousands.



I was just wondering about this problem, that's an incredible solution..


In Charles Stross' Palimpsest, humans use a fleet of solar sails that constantly transfer momentum to the Earth over very long periods.




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