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A paper prices megaengineering to keep Earth habitable far past its natural span

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A new paper prices megaengineering fixes for seven long-run threats, from rising solar luminosity to the end of plate tectonics, keeping Earth habitable for 9.1 million billion years, longer still if mass is lifted off the Sun.

Reported metric: 9.1 million billion years

Reporting date: 2026-08-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 6, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A paper prices megaengineering to keep Earth habitable far past its natural span
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Reporting date: 2026-08-06
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-06-earth-kept-habitable-for-nine-million-billion-years
Claim: A new paper prices megaengineering fixes for seven long-run threats, from rising solar luminosity to the end of plate tectonics, keeping Earth habitable for 9.1 million billion years, longer still if mass is lifted off the Sun.
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- Welcome to August 6, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-6-2026
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