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    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 10 16:33:29 2022
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    xkcd: Solar System Model
    https://xkcd.com/2709/

    Luckily for us, the Goldilocks zone is huge. Of course, Sol is very
    slowly expanding and growing brighter. We may need to move Earth
    further out some day unless the Rapture happens first.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2709:_Solar_System_Model

    Lynn

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Dec 10 18:47:42 2022
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    On 12/10/2022 2:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: Solar System Model
       https://xkcd.com/2709/

    Luckily for us, the Goldilocks zone is huge. Of course, Sol is very
    slowly expanding and growing brighter.  We may need to move Earth
    further out some day unless the Rapture happens first.

    Well as the Sun ages it loses mass so has less gravity to hold Earth and
    the other planets in their current orbit. It is expected that the
    planets will slowly migrate outwards as a results.

    The question is which is faster, the Sun's expansion or the outward
    drift of the planets?

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Dec 11 09:32:57 2022
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    On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:33:29 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    xkcd: Solar System Model
    https://xkcd.com/2709/

    Now /that/ was funny!

    Luckily for us, the Goldilocks zone is huge. Of course, Sol is very
    slowly expanding and growing brighter. We may need to move Earth
    further out some day unless the Rapture happens first.

    Explained at:
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2709:_Solar_System_Model

    Lynn
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    development was the disintegration, under Christian
    influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
    of family right."

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