JGon

I cringed at the topic "as a former NASA Astrometrist" but if you look up... in the Northern Hemisphere, we have Polaris (the North Star) relatively stationary in the sky. Just use your phone with one of those sky apps. Now, get on a plane and go to Australia... Polaris drops below the horizon and isn’t visible at all. Meanwhile, now that you are in Australia, you can see the Southern Cross (Crux). No amount of weird “perspective” or “light bending” on a supposedly flat plane can explain why completely different stars are visible as you change hemispheres. For the average Joe, Earth should be considered a perfect sphere: Equatorial Diameter: About 12,756 km Polar Diameter (North to South Pole): About 12,714 km That’s a difference of roughly 42 km. It may not sound like a lot on a planetary scale, but it’s enough to show up in measurements and in Earth’s rotation characteristics. But that's only for scientist. For most people 42 km in nothing compared to almost 13,000. The more you know...

I don't think this should be classified by a race skin color... this is just the mentality of "winners" not "whiteness"

I agree, if you walk confidently like you own the place but respecting their boundaries and they leave you alone. Show any sign of fear or "shadiness" they can perceive that. I used to walk around no problem until my German Shepperd (Big boy maybe 55-60 Kg) got out to walk with me... then every dog would try to challenge him and he would put them in their place (He's so much bigger and stronger I'm not worried about him). Is impossible to walk with him because all the other dogs come at him aggressively and although he stays with me if you get to close he will bite. But now the Soi dogs associate me with him, so they bark or challenge me, guilty by association. There is a huge soi dog problem in Thailand. No owners, pack mentality, and the locals don't care. Introduce dangerous breeds to the pack and accidents are bound to happen.

The Sun moving closer huh?! You know the Earth doesn't have the mass to do such a thing... heck even if you put everything in the Solar System (Jupiter, Saturn and every other planet, asteroid and comet) the Sun outweighs them by 99.86%. So yes every planet, every moon, every asteroid and comet that's in the solar system only account for 0.14% of its mass. Jupiter itself is 0.1% with the rest 0.04%... The more you know...

The furthest back we've been able to look at Earth's weather and climate is currently about 2.7 million years. How? Using ice cores.

This area in Petchabun you can sort of see that... In April the area in Red would stay around 35-36°C at around 800M elevation... yet in the valley below near sea level it would be at 42°C

That is true, altitude helps alleviates the problem of elevated temperatures. However Thailand doesn't possess enough elevated areas (Let say above 1,500 Meters) to replace Latitude.

I was an Astrometrist (Like an Astronomer that builds celestial maps) at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona... then moved in 2012 to NASA John C Stennis Space Center (also traveled to Baltimore, Space Telescope Science Institute off and on) until 2022... then I came here to Thailand. If you have any Space questions or Science in general maybe I can help (Is not like that skill is useful here in Thailand haha).

Yes, Thailand as well. Pretty much almost all western countries have aging populations. And in a few decades this will become very evident...

In my opinion it's not... you can already see how hot it gets... and it will be much worse. You want to be higher in Latitude to reduce the Sun angle of incident (The angle sun rays hit the surface). I think somewhere around 40° North or South would do. Much milder winter and not so brutal summers.

Yes it damage the Environment/Ecosystem. The physical planet? No... Earth will be here for a few billions years at least (Assuming it survives the Sun Red Giant phase)... if it does... it could be eons! A dead planet... but it will still physically be there.

As in we are not having enough kids or the opposite (Too many). Because it's actually the first (We're not having enough kids).

Well life treats all living beings the same way since 99.9% of all species that ever existed are extinct. Will we be intelligent enough to get past that "barrier"? Collectively as a species... I believe we are not.😅

Humans hurt the environment/ecosystem... the planet itself? lol Don't give us so much credit... we are incapable of such power (To actually physically destroy the "real" planet) I just find it funny when people say we are destroying the Earth (And I know what they mean), just saying.

No because we finished with the ENSO positive (El Niño Southern Oscillation) ... Last year when they asked this question (it might've been you) I said 2024 will be the hottest and that I might see 43C in my area. And sure thing I saw 43C a few times from April 20 until it finally cooled off with the arrivals of the rain on May 6th. 2025 with ENSO negative will not reach quite as high. It might hit 40-41C in my area maybe 42C.