[extropy-chat] Re: Animals

[Christian Weisgerber]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> > > I have no idea how reliable is this. Even 1% of solar constant change
> > > typically can wreak havoc to climate, so 10% increase sounds pretty
> > > catastrophic to me.
> > 
> > Yes, but it's a slow, continuous process.  Anybody have any figures
> 
> No, luminosity quite suddenly starts going up once you go off the main
> sequence on Hertzsprung-Russell.

But the point we have been talking about is just the (past and)
future luminosity increase while the sun is still on the main
sequence.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de