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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 thin rock surface thing...maybe we could create
some small degree of control in the moons direction and use that to influence
the Earth's. (Does the moon have a molten core?)
Marlon 'Excelerator' Smith
X_LR8R@hotmail.com
"Jon Palmer" <jon@zemi.net> wrote in message news:HABBIM.81H@lugnet.com...
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ideas?
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> [ j o n ]
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| (...) Terry Pratchett. The turtle is called The Great A'tuin and she just swims through the milky-way in the direction SHE wants :-) (...) Good one. (...) Nop, not as far as we know. But we could just punch a hole in the thin earth crust and have (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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