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		jemmyw 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory 10% every billion years. So negligible on our timescale, but it is significant if you talk about ancient climate conditions like this thread does.

blueflow 66 days ago [–]

complex life on earth is half a billion years old (cambrian explosion 550ma ago), so the sun shouldn't be that much of an factor.

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