Re: Comet impact in the Eastern United States - Feasibility of Evacuation

In article <47d6fd17$0$36350$742ec2ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Brion K. Lienhart wrote:
> > James Nicoll wrote:
> >> In article <Xns9A5C70175CAA9genewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> Gene Ward Smith  <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> David T. Bilek <davidbilek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> >>> news:iic8t3llgee15ileg6duflh4ckp6dlqidh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>
> >>>> Couldn't we manage the sun's brightening relatively easily,
> >>>> particularly at the tech levels we would (presumably) have
> >>>> attained by the time it becomes a problem?
> >>> It would get progressively harder. But what's a good way of getting
> >>> a reverse greenhouse barrier in place? Sounds like the germ of an
> >>> sf plot.
> >>
> >> You could put a mirror at the Earth-Sun L1 but eventually
> >> the Sun will be close enough to 1AU in diameter that friction could
> >> be a problem (Although I think there's evidence of at least one
> >> planet that survived its star's red giant phase despite having been
> >> close enough to have been within the outer parts of the star. I will
> >> look this up later).
> >
> > Not a single large mirror, but a gazillion small solar cell panels.
> > Then you can beam the energy back to Earth as Microwaves! :)
> 
> Does the term "world's largest microwave oven" apply anymore when you've

> turned the entire world in to said microwave oven?  :P

OK, would you believe "largest microwave oven in the Sol system"? :)

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