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Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by roseway4 on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:35PM (#36730845)
As the Wikipedia article mentions, we’ve already done just this with the JWST…
Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by NavinF on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:58PM (#36731617)
Naw the JWST won't stay there after it loses power.

> The points L1, L2, and L3 are positions of unstable equilibrium. Any object orbiting at L1, L2, or L3 will tend to fall out of orbit; it is therefore rare to find natural objects there, and spacecraft inhabiting these areas must employ a small but critical amount of station keeping in order to maintain their position.

Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by jamiek88 on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:11PM (#36731725)
Nothing will. The Lagrange points are only quasi stable.
Re:Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on ... by cperciva on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:33PM (#36733071)
L4 and L5 are "stable" -- but of course on timescales of billions of years even Earth's orbit isn't guaranteed to be stable.