{"id":75,"date":"2012-09-03T04:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T04:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oestia.com\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2012-09-03T04:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T04:59:20","slug":"the-five-billion-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"The Five-Billion Year Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In five-billion years, the astronomers say, the sun will go through a two-billion year red giant phase. Living on Earth will get tough. The consequences of the red giant transformation will be deadly for humanity, if we are caught flat-footed. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific website says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The Sun] will be pumping out a thousand times more energy, making Earth a good approximation to hell. \u2026 solar wind \u2026 will make radio communication impossible and perhaps evaporate the atmosphere altogether. Looking on the bright side, the red-giant Sun may be warm enough to melt the water-rich but now-frozen moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Humanity, if it is still around, might relocate there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Oestians, we are pledged to continue the existence of humanity. We need to develop a plan to deal with this threat. By assuming responsibility for the world we pass to future generations of humanity, we start taking ourselves seriously as a species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In five-billion years, the astronomers say, the sun will go through a two-billion year red giant phase. Living on Earth will get tough. The consequences of the red giant transformation will be deadly for humanity, if we are caught flat-footed. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific website says: [The Sun] will be pumping out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oestia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}