Can We Engineer The Sun?

The Sun is dying. A slow death, to be sure, but slowly it creeps towards its end, gradually increasing in luminosity - an effect that will push Earth out of the habitable zone in about a billion years. Can we somehow stop this from happening? Can we save the Earth? Can we save *the Sun*? Join us today as discuss a new research paper from the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University, that may help our distant descendants buy themselves billions of years of new life.

Written and presented by Prof David Kipping and Matt Scoggins (Columbia). Special thanks to melodysheep for giving us permission to use their awesome starlifting animations from "Life Beyond 3" ()

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::References::

► [THIS RESEARCH!] Scoggins, M. & Kipping, D. (2020), Lazarus StarsNumerical investigations of stellar evolution with starlifting", submitted to MNRAS

► Criswell D. R. (1985), Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience, pp 50–87

► Matloff G. L. (2017), Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 70, 458

::More videos::

► "Starlifting" by Isaac Arthur

► "Watching the End of the World" by Cool Worlds

::Music::

Music licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI], Artlist.io, via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (), or with permission from the artist

► Sid Acharya - Sky Sailing (0:00)

► Joachim Heinrich - Stjärna (1:48)

► Joachim Heinrich - Y (3:29)

► Sid Acharya - Searching for Answers (5:06)

► Kevin MacLeod - Long Note Two (8:13)

► Atlas - Waking Up (10:10)

► Falls - Life in Binary (13:15)

► Sid Acharya - Sky Sailing (16:11)

► Joachim Heinrich - Y (19:15)

► Indive - Trace Correction (21:21)

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► Interstellar (Paramount Pictures)

► Agora (Focus Features International)

► Dragonheart (Universal Pictures)

► Immortals (Relativity Media)

► Johnny Cash - Hurt (American Recording Studios)

► Noah (Paramount Pictures)

► The Planets (BBC)

► Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

► Ad Astra (20th Century Fox)

► The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company)

► Elysium (Sony Pictures Releasing)

► Avengers: Infinity War (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

► Lucy (Universal Pictures)

► Avengers: Endgame (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

► Event Horizon (Paramount Pictures)

► Rubikon (Graf Film)

► The Expanse (Amazon)

► Don't Look Up (Netflix)

► Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (New Line Cinema)

► The Day After Tomorrow (20th Century Fox)

► Dragon's Den (BBC)

► How The Universe Works (Science Channel)

► Man of Steel (Warner Bros. Pictures)

► Prometheus (20th Century Fox)

► Passengers (Sony Pictures Releasing)

► Clara (D Films)

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