Early mornings and working on a few things at once :)

Depends what field of astronomy you work on. The seasons are a product of the specific orbital dynamics of Earth - and only Earth. They're not generalizable to any other planet, and they only matter to planets in the first place provided the planet has sufficient tilt or the orbital plane is suitably inclined (but not so much as to be non-sensical - i.e. Uranus).

They also only matter really if you're studying planetary atmospheres/surface conditions.

Which requires huge amounts of kinetic energy to bring nucleons close enough together to fuse. Which in turn requires electromagnetism to imbue sufficient energy for them to do so.

Except notice how the field is gaining complexity? So it's clearly not that simple. It might end up being right, but the final product is not going to end up adding a lot of complexity back in.

More importantly, whether the climate changes doesn't really matter when you have a scattered population in the millions, which is reasonably nomadic with no long term infrastructure.

We have today a population that will be 9 billion or so (the expected stabilization level in 2020), with vast static infrastructure requirements to support it, in highly unmobile cities.

It takes 100+ years of social policy to relocate people away from the coast due to highly predictable natural forces (erosion retreat policies for beachfront areas for example). We absolutely can't afford to move whole cities on that timespan, nor put up adequate retaining walls. And that's just considering the coastal flooding/weather change issue. It's not diving into fisheries damage, marine ecology changes, drought and inland rain changes etc.

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So, to be clear: literally never.

See, when people complain that nothing ever changes, it would help if they then suggested ideas which didn't show that they have a complete inability to understand how or why things are the way they are in the first place.

For one thing, voting third party on the presidential/congressional level is completely worthless if you can't win local or state elections. But of course, if you could do that, then you'd have a largish party which would have internal politics and negotiations of its own, at which point it would be functionally a lot easier to simply run under an existing banner and negotiate for your ideas from within. But all of this would involve actually demonstrating some social and political acumen.

Pro-tip: to someone else, so are you.

The reality is people are really stupid when they go outside their field of expertise. Some people have a lot fewer of these then others.

Commercial hardware assembly is hard - not to mention that since you're selling something you take on a bunch of liability as far as product quality goes regardless.

Humans haven't existed for 20 million years.

Compressing the H264 most people are pulling down over it? Not going to happen. Unless you mean upping the symbol rate (think that's the right term) for more efficient coding. In which case, well, we're still being pretty damn efficient.

Well that's the idea of working around the hydrogen. You offset the hydrogen cells so they're expendable and under heat release the gas quickly, away from the turbine. The parachute gets enough aerodynamics so when it falls it acts like a drogue and pulls itself above the turbine before deploying.

True. Although in terms of long term hibernation, I suspect getting permits for that type of research would be easy - we already have a euthanasia movement principally concerned with people who are in chronic pain from terminal illnesses, in some cases at a fairly young age.

I suspect any of them would be very happy to take a long shot gamble on long-term hibernation until their condition could be cured. The issue is, scientifically there's little evidence we can yet do that.

Up high in the atmosphere you could easily harvest enough water from the air to keep the thing self-sufficient.

Just add a parachute pack lashed to the bottom. The balloon burns, the weight causes the parachute to rotate to above the falling structure and an altimeter deploys the parachute before it hits the ground.

You could make this pretty reliable if you separate the hydrogen lifting cells from the turbine/parachute system so an incineration would just involve attaching new balloons and sending the whole thing back up.

It's not "frozen" - it's cold. The whole point of the technique is to minimize ice-crystal formation, which is what does a lot of the damage.