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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by Georgelemental on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:58AM (#39369786)
You have to make sure it doesn't drift away from the Langrange point, which is unstable…
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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by Maxion on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:06AM (#39369889)
Well, assuming an alien species that can deal with interstellat travel I am sure they can figure out a way to stay at a lagrange point.
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Re:What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientis... by foobarbecue on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @10:19AM (#39370752)
What do you mean it's unstable? You orbit the Lagrange point, right? Sure you might have to spend some fuel maintaining the orbit, but we have a bunch of spacecraft at Earth sun L2 doing that just fine (e.g. the Webb). Is L1 less stable than L2 for some reason?

edit: SOHO is at L1

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