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Re: Melting a planet's core
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:13:54 GMT
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Andrew Summersgill <ajs@^StopSpam^blahblahblah.co.uk>
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> Their was a large thread on Lugnet discussing wether you could move a • planet and
> I was wondering could you melt the core core of a planet (and get it • moving
> again).
This sounds suspiciously like the Doctor Who story "Dalek Invasion of Earth"
where the Daleks were drilling down to the molten core of the planet in
order to drain it away and install a propulsion system so they could pilot
the planet around the galaxy.
Unfortunately, I cannot add any scientific knowledge to your question as the
Daleks were defeated and their plan never reached fruition. But they
obviously thought they could do it.
> One way of melting the core would be to move it so close to the sun that • the
> whole planet melted and then move it back out again but I don't know what • the
> consequence's of this would be. Could a melted and then cooled planet • sustain
> life?
Probably, if you wanted to wait several billion years.
Andrew.
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