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Re: How would you move a planet?
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Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:27:55 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Nick Kappatos writes:
> 3) I think the easiest way would be to slow the rotation of the planet
> around its star, to let it drift out (or conversely, speed the rotation to
> move it closer); once the planet is out of its orbit, it should be easier to
> move. Although, this would seriously affect the concept of years.
Easier than watching Futurama. (You've got it backwards: add velocity to
Earth to make its orbit further out, then you're done.)
Actually NASA now has this contingency plan for moving Earth. It does
involve borrowing energy from the outer planets, using a portable rock as a
storage device. Kind of a pulley.
The work was publicized a two years ago:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/05/earth.move/
P.S. Ben Bova's _Moving Mars_ cheats by inventing teleportation.
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| Good catch! I wasn't thinking in terms of "escape velocity", I was thinking more "if Earth stops spinning, we all fly off into space". Somewhere in that I made the association Earth=star and people=planets, but the translation doesn't really work, (...) (22 years ago, 16-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)
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