Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that the Sun will be allowed to proceed down its natural path. In principal, stars can be engineered. It doesn’t require any radical technology; it’s more just a problem of scale. I fully expect the Sun to be still burning strong a trillion years from now.
As for whether Sol will be thrown by the merger either out of the galaxy or into the galactic core? I think the Sun will go in whatever direction we choose it to go.
We can’t even cooperate with one another to stop climate change - something happening on the scale of a human lifetime - and you think we’ll engineer the sun to stop expanding over the course of a billion years, and then steer it?
Personally, I find it extremely unlikely that the Sun will be allowed to proceed down its natural path. In principal, stars can be engineered. It doesn’t require any radical technology; it’s more just a problem of scale. I fully expect the Sun to be still burning strong a trillion years from now.
As for whether Sol will be thrown by the merger either out of the galaxy or into the galactic core? I think the Sun will go in whatever direction we choose it to go.
We can’t even cooperate with one another to stop climate change - something happening on the scale of a human lifetime - and you think we’ll engineer the sun to stop expanding over the course of a billion years, and then steer it?
Actually, I kind of admire your optimism.