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Mike Stafford

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An article in Scientific American suggests that we move the earth about 3 million miles out to counteract the expected increase in solar temperature in about a 100 million years. A scientist suggests that we use probes to nudge the earth to increase its speed enough to move it into an orbit a little farther out and save it from the effects of the sun...or something like that. I will attach a link to the article so you can read it for yourself. My understanding of it is limited to say the least. But it does sound like this problem is going to be difficult to solve.

I would like to get the contract for this job. Can you imagine the reward you would get for saving the earth!?!

I reread the article and learned this disaster is going to happen in a 100 million years. I was worried when I first heard the story as I thought they said it was going to happen in only a million years. WHEW! That is too close for comfort.

www.scientificamerican.com

A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit

What’s the worst that could happen?
www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
 
Darren Wright

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Boy, that is a bit too close for comfort. One could get pretty dry and crusty under that kind of heat...well we'll all be anyway. oh wait...
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Mike Stafford

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Vaughn McMillan said:
I'm going fast enough on my own, lol.
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I am sure you have noticed that when we are children we cannot wait for things to happen; for birthdays to get here; for Christmas; for the weekend etc. etc. etc. Youngsters can't wait for their next birthday. They add half years to increase their age. But as we age time flies. Things happen so quickly that we seem to miss many of them. Our children grow up and have children almost overnight. The man in the mirror grows a gray beard and gray hair so quickly we wonder who it is that we are staring at.

When you are young you have to learn who and what you are. But at our age we are reminded who and what we are not.

We slow down but time flies. Is it any wonder that death catches up to us.
 
Chuck Ellis

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I plan to stick around until I become a nuisance to my kids (providing I haven't already reached that state)
My goal is to reach 109.... don't ask why, it's just a number that popped into my head, I liked it and am working towards it. You really gotta have a goal.
 
Mike Stafford

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Vaughn McMillan said:
I don't have any kids to become a nuisance to, so I'd like to go in my sleep like my grandpa did. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
(I know...that joke is almost as old as the average age here on the forum, lol.)
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My father-in-law was still driving at 96. When you were in the car with him and heard the words "Uh oh" he had just backed into someone. I think he had 12 accidents in parking lots in 10 weeks. The state of Florida took his license to drive on the highway.

Unfortunately he still drove the handicapped shopping cart at Wal Mart and other stores. He was more dangerous with it and certainly more likely to hospitalize someone with that battery powered shopping cart than he was with his car.

I miss my FIL but I don't miss his driving.
 
Paul Douglass

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Mike Stafford said:
My father-in-law was still driving at 96. When you were in the car with him and heard the words "Uh oh" he had just backed into someone. I think he had 12 accidents in parking lots in 10 weeks. The state of Florida took his license to drive on the highway.

Unfortunately he still drove the handicapped shopping cart at Wal Mart and other stores. He was more dangerous with it and certainly more likely to hospitalize someone with that battery powered shopping cart than he was with his car.

I miss my FIL but I don't miss his driving.
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This is why I only park so I can pull out forward.. Sometimes I have to walk a long way because of this, but the walk is a good thing for me also. I need a newer car, with the back up camera and the warning of people approaching from the side. If there is no way to park like I like, l when I am ready to leave a spot, I stand out side my car and yell "I AM GOING TOO BACK OUT NOW EVERYONE WATCH OUT!" Then I get lot of people helping me.
 
Chuck Ellis

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Mike Stafford said:
I miss my FIL but I don't miss his driving.
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My first F I L was relatively young when I knew him... maybe mid 60s.... but he had his pituitary gland taken out when he was in mid to late 50s... he needed to take steroid shots every 6 weeks to keep stabilized.... when he drove, he tended to race up behind the car in front, realize he was too close, back off a ways, then race up behind them again.... sometimes when he was sitting still and getting close to time for another stabilizing shot, he would fall asleep in mid sentence.... I was always afraid he might do that when driving.
 
Steve Kniffen

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I've been told I made the earth move before ...

Just returned from a family reunion. My 93 y/o uncle drove himself 525 miles from Omaha to Denver and back because riding with his son-in-law scares him.

I always said I'd die at 101, shot by a jealous husband as I crawled out his happy wife's bedroom window, but I could be wrong.
 
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