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How would you move a planet?
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Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:00:15 GMT
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Unlike my earlier post about the cables and reels, this does not directly
have anything to do with an upcoming MOC, but I thought it would be a fun
discussion nonetheless.
Now moving a giant body from one place to another is obviously a sci fi
staple, so I expect a lot of references to various books, but it would also
be cool to hear some random ideas out of the blue.
For visual impact I keep imagining city sized thrusters spaced out evenly
over one side of the planet. Or maybe a massive super thin/strong net
covering the whole planet, pulled on the other side by some space tugs.
Ideas?
[ j o n ]
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| (...) Probably mobile gravity feild generators spaced out in *front* of the planet to pull it out of the gravity well it belongs in already. A pied-piper of planets. Bear in mind that you're *really* going to screw up the solar system with this. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) hmmmm... > < - hmmmmm...but would such a think lead to the cracking of the planetary crust and a possible collapse of the planet's upper mantle? What about the fuel source of the engines? I think you would have to some silly Trek thing, like (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) 1) Everyone to the left of the international date line JUMP! 2) Large planetwide Mexican buffet. 3) Planetary Barry White Music Fesitival. 4) Dangle Carrot in front of planet... yell "giddyyap Planet" from behind. 5) Moonsized bottle of Exlax. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Gravity: If you're hyperspace-capable, you could put one or more ships (as massive as possible) in space and let them free-fall toward the planet in the opposite direction you want the planet moved. Before your ship crashes, hyper-jump back to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| I'd move a planet by crashing another planet into it, like happened w/ mars and the asteroid belt hasn't anyone in here played billiards? or did you mean move it and keep everyone alive? :-) -paul (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) the plane of the planet's orbit). Right as the planet reaches the correct position in it's orbit, deploy an immense graviton shield around the planet (or along the side of the sun, perhaps very close the sun blocking a cone of space, if you (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| well... the hirosha and nagasaki A-bomb explosions affected earths orbit slightely, i suppose if you made some sort of large 'indestructible' dishes that you could use to detonate H-bombs. you would need about 5 dishes placed at points that would (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| ...One dumptruck load at a time. I think it'd be seriously less expensive to dismantle an entire planet, move it in chunks, then use its resources to construct a new one elsewhere, than it would be to tug the whole shebang at once. If you want your (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| 1) On the only Futurama episode I've ever seen, they revealed that their delivery ship works by actually standing still, and moving the universe around it. I bet that could be scaled down.... I need to watch more of that show. 2) I saw Superman (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) Now you tell me you want to move it some other place? Just point where you want it to go, close your eyes and I'll tell you when we get there. Mark "ungratefull lot, them earthlings" de Kock On a more serious note: how about just pretending (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes: <snipped> You could always ask the Decepticons. They moved a planet around once or twice. I think they used the aforementioned giant rockets. -Andrusi && Sanity not included. (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| Make the giant turtle on which the disk rides travel in a different direction. Disk World (Author?) Since the world is attached to the hub by cable, simply fire the control engines in the hub. Ring World (Larry Niven) Ok...the whole molten core and (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) mortgage rate somewhere else. Seriously, I'd use a controlled mobil singularity in 'front' of the planet to lead it where you want to go. Jeff (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | How would NASA move a planet?
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| just in case anyone can find it NASA actually wrote a proposal last year that recommended changing the earth's orbit as a solution to global warming. if they actually try it they should be tortured slowly if any of us are left alive at all. -paul (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) Two ideas spring to mind. 1) Wait - It'll move all by itself, although probably not where you want it. 2) Miniaturise it a la 'Fantastic Voyage' down to handy pocket size. Allister (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| I think the gravity idea would be our best bet. I remember in the book "Ringworld" (where the idea for the setting of the game "Halo" was stolen from), an alien civilization packed up their entire solar system. they pulled all of the inhabited (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) I'm almost surprised no one thought of this earlier. Simply use a net to catch passing asteroids or comets and sooner or later you would build up enough speed to go somewhere. I'd better clarify. A net might be a bit week and would be punched (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) Jon, My high school physics teacher talked a lot about "frictionless grease spray", which made many hypothetical conundrums more thetical. All you'd need to do is spray this stuff on the bottom of the planet, stand behind it on a friction mat (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| (...) hmmm. I am shocked no one mentioned the Planet Jackers. I mean, they do this sort of thing all the time to doomed little sad planets like this earthan earth Orb you call Earth. Hk.jk 9 _ fY` ~ Gir! Get off the keyboard! Its easy really you (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| Well, Khan attested the the destruction of one planetary body in a system can shift the orbit of the remaining planets. Of course, Ceti Alpha 5 was laid wasted and infested with disgusting, space ear roaches that turn you into a helpless minion of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: How would you move a planet?
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| "Jon Palmer" <jon@zemi.net> wrote in message news:HABBIM.81H@lugnet.com... (...) The William Randolph Hearst Method: Take it apart piece by piece and put it back together where you want it. The Relativity Method: Leave the planet where it is. Move (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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