From where?  Tax increases?  Borrow from China?  Banknote printing? Generally speaking, these emergency funds are from governmental contingencies established prior for these situations, or set-up during the onset. Most Western countries are now implementing these. While most do not apply to *every*...

33111 give everyone $1,000 to stimulate the economy after this horror ends. A $1 trillion stimulus package From where?  Tax increases?  Borrow from China?  Banknote printing? Generally speaking, these emergency funds are from governmental contingencies established prior for these situations, or set...

33108 A friend of mine would also like to submit his opinion: I added him to the spreadsheet but I would like to know if your friend could be said to have similar characteristics of people in this forum, just to tag it in some way. I would say that he is certainly the same type as the rest of us. H...

33006 Questions: The poll consists of 14 questions/statements you have to rate with a score from 0 to 20 (0 meaning "I absolutely don't believe so" and 20 meaning "I'm certain about it").    A1) There is or has been extraterrestrial life in the Universe    B1) There is or has be...

Exactly. It is in fact thought that the Tabby's Star fluctuations are caused by a disintegrating planet. There was a fairly statistically-insignificant chance of us actually viewing that as it happened, but it just goes to show how busy the universe is.

32665 (Of course they don't want to reveal themselves yet because we're not ready for them yet.) (Just a thought. :lol:) Aye, it's a fun thought. Other danger stars could be experiencing the same treatment near us! 32672 Isn't there some weird star out there which seems to show variations that have...

32657 I have already considered whether the decrease in the brightness of Betelgeuse could not have been caused by a kind of star-lifting. That sounds pretty ridiculous.  Even if you manage to focus the stellar mass quite a bit, it will still be a pretty thin soup to harvest.  Betelgeuse is practic...

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Qr Bbpost I predict that we will all either be 6 ft under by then or we will all reside in immortal artificial bodies by then!

Chances are good that if we'd survive up until then, those stars would have been diffused by us by some means along the lines of star-lifting.

------------------------------------------------------ Merged from the " Unknown Facts About Exoplanets" topic ------------------------------------------------------ 31571 Posts in megathreads quickly get buried This is something we must all suffer, and does not justify the creation of a ...

------------------------------------------------------ Merged from the " Unknown Facts About Exoplanets" topic ------------------------------------------------------ Why couldn't this be posted in in the Science & Astronomy Videos channel? Why does this post need a whole separate topi...

31562 and instead they can be more concerned about the Earth's spin slowing down, and before that the Sun's luminosity increasing, and before that probably the climate changing or other things that are actually happening over human timescales. Mhmm, I'll talk to them of such things, and fill them w...

Hey Wats, I wouldn't mind hearing your opinion on this, as crazy as some of it sounds:

^ This was actually something I was quite interested in knowing. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people cry out that the Moon will spin off into the void someday.