its not nice to fool with mother nature...
murphy's law... if something does go wrong, we may not be here to allow a
few more years without respect to the extra billion years



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From: "James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@BELLSOUTH.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: NASA and comets agains


> The article is a much misinterpreted take on what NASA was talking
> about.  Forget piddly environmental global warming.  The sun itself is
> heating up and enlarging steadily.   Although it will remain on the main
> sequence for about another 5 billion years, the earth will only be
> habitible for about another billion -- maybe less before the oceans
> evaporate away.  These guys were talking about placing a 160 Km asteroid
> or comet in solar orbit at 1 A.U., leading the earth-moon system.  This
> would gradually shift the earth and moon outward with respect to the
> sun.  About once every 6000 years the asteroid would have to be swung
> around Jupiter to replenish its energy in order to continue the
> process.  This procedure would make the earth habitible for perhaps an
> extra 4 billion years for whatever species it may harbor at the time.  I
> see nothing wrong with long-range planning even if we aren't going to be
> here to benefit.
>
> Jim
>
> Jinx wrote:
>
> > Looks like I took me pills just in time
> >
> > http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,504486,00.html
>
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