I took a quick look. I did not quite find this, I found other discussion of suns dying or being used as resources. Sharing as data.
In the song “Five Thousand Years” the lyrics talk about the sun dying in the next 5,000 years.
I don’t quite know how things might change I don’t quite know what rules we’d break Our present selves might think it strange But there’s so many lives at stake...
Entropy is bearin’ down But we got tricks to stick around. And if we live to see the day That yellow fades to red then grey,
We’ll take a moment, one by one Turn to face the dying sun Bittersweetly wave goodbye— The journey’s only just begun...
In (Five thousand years) (Whatcha want to do, whatcha wanna see, in another) (Five million years) (Where we want to go, who we want to be, in another)
In the Great Transhumanist Future, There are worlds all fair and bright, We’ll be constrained by nothing but The latency of light When the hospitals are empty And the sun’s a battery Making it a breeze To get outta deep freeze To give humans wings And some other things In the Great Transhumanist Future.
Is this true?! (Do you have a link or something?)
I took a quick look. I did not quite find this, I found other discussion of suns dying or being used as resources. Sharing as data.
In the song “Five Thousand Years” the lyrics talk about the sun dying in the next 5,000 years.
Here’s a reference to it as a battery, in the (fast, humerous, upbeat) song “The Great Transhumanist Future”
It’s implied in the first verse of “Great Transhumanist Future.”
Ah, thanks, this does seem to be what @David Matolcsi was referring to.
Thanks for adding that one, I accidentally missed the first reference in the song.
I don’t think it is implied at all that the sun will or should be torn apart in 20 years?
It is implied that the sun is wasteful from at least one perspective, which hardly can be argued with.