My bet: a Starship variant. Send it up, refuel it as needed, and you’ve got a metric shit ton of de-orbit push. Starship will have been to the moon by then, it’ll be a proven platform.
Hell, use a fleet and you could reland the ISS if you wanted it back on Earth intact.
Could the planet have been captured after the ballooned red dwarf shrank? E.g. a wandering planet. Or could something have made its orbit shift, e.g. if it was farther out and now it’s closer in?
One possibility, raised by the physicist Lee Smolin and the philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, is that the laws of physics can evolve and change over time.
That sentence sent literal chills down my spine. Serious cosmic horror of the best kind here. It’s an exciting time to follow astrophysics.
I love that more and more open source science projects are streamlining deployment and encouraging folks to just try it. This one has a binder link in the README (though it seems to be failing… may need some TLC). I really think this is a positive template for what academia could eventually become!
I have several astronomer friends from Spain, from where I’m standing it’s one of the world’s great academic “hot spots” for good astronomy.
Not only that, but one of these friends specializes in Active Galactic Nuclei and Blazars, I even entered the article hoping it was my friend. Cue Ron Howard narration voice: “It wasn’t.”
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