{"id":374604,"date":"2026-08-08T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374604"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:48:09","slug":"earth-survival-proposal-accepted-for-publication-a-sunshade-jupiter-fusion-and-a-new-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/earth-survival-proposal-accepted-for-publication-a-sunshade-jupiter-fusion-and-a-new-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth survival proposal accepted for publication: a sunshade, Jupiter fusion, and a new orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Harry\u2019s Earth-survival proposal has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society<\/em>. In the paper, he lays out a planet-scale plan: cool Earth with a sunshade, make up for the sunlight that would be lost by importing energy, and, much farther down the line, move Earth into a wider orbit.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s starting from a real long-term problem<\/strong>. Stellar evolution models suggest that in about 1 billion years, the Sun\u2019s growing luminosity could boil away Earth\u2019s oceans. Around 5 billion years from now, when the Sun enters its red giant phase, it could engulf the inner planets, with Earth possibly among them.<\/p>\n\n

Harry\u2019s first move is to place a giant sunshade at the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point, the spot between Earth and the Sun, so less radiation reaches<\/strong> the planet as the Sun gets brighter.<\/p>\n\n

That shade would also cut off heat and light Earth still needs, so the proposal adds fusion reactors<\/strong> deep inside Jupiter\u2019s hydrogen and helium atmosphere, with power beamed back to Earth. Outside experts say both fusion and large-scale industry in that setting are far beyond what current engineering can do.<\/p>\n\n

Later, a carefully redirected asteroid would make repeated gravitational assists to push Earth into a wider orbit. Critics warn that even small mistakes<\/strong> could disrupt Earth, the Moon, or the wider solar system.<\/p>\n\n

If you keep up with far-future space ideas, this is an interesting thought experiment<\/strong> to read, even if experts don\u2019t see it as a practical roadmap. They also point out that geoengineering debates still don\u2019t include enough voices from Asia, Africa, and South America.<\/p>\n\n

You can find Harry\u2019s paper in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Harry\u2019s Earth-survival proposal has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. In the paper, he lays out a planet-scale plan: cool Earth with a sunshade, make up for the sunlight that would be lost by importing energy, and, much farther down the line, move Earth into a wider orbit. … Continue reading “Earth survival proposal accepted for publication: a sunshade, Jupiter fusion, and a new orbit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":374603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t