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The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Marsm Interstellar Travel, Immortality, And Our Destiny Beyond Earth
Michio Kaku 2018, 629.455 KAKU Cedar Mill Library
The media-canonical future, as channeled by a 70yo pop-sci media gadfly and former theoretical physicist. Many acknowledgements of other non-engineer non-inventor non-entrepreneur media pundits. Much focus on "ick factor" reactionary barriers. I mostly skimmed the book, looking for any surprises.
- p1 Prologue, Toba volcanic explosion 75 kya.
p5 Sun expansion to 1.2 AU 5Gy from now
- wp mass loss will expand Earth's orbit to 1.5 AU, tidal drag will reduce it, luminosity will increase 2700x
this assumes no Kardashev 2 scale flyby orbit tinkering