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Re: How would you move a planet?
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Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:50:54 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Marlon Smith writes:
> Make the giant turtle on which the disk rides travel in a different =
> direction.
> Disk World (Author?)
Terry Pratchett. The turtle is called The Great A'tuin and she just swims
through the milky-way in the direction SHE wants :-)
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> Since the world is attached to the hub by cable, simply fire the control =
> engines in the hub.
> Ring World (Larry Niven)
Good one.
> 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?)
Nop, not as far as we know. But we could just punch a hole in the thin earth
crust and have the molten, pressurized core work as a giant rocket engine.
Ofcoure we would have to make sure that the hole is pointing in the right
direction.
> Marlon 'Excelerator' Smith
> X_LR8R@hotmail.com
Mark "Gravitation is a myth; the earth sucks!" de Kock
> "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.
> > =20
> > 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.
> > =20
> > 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.
> > =20
> > Ideas?
> > =20
> > [ j o n ]
> > --
> > http://zemi.net
> > http://www.classic-space.com
> > http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=3Djpalmer
> > =20
> > =20
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| "Markassius" <mark.de.kock@NOSPAM.home.nl> wrote in message news:HAGs8u.F4q@lugnet.com... (...) earth (...) Now I have this image of a planet thhhhpppptttttt-ing around in space like a balloon losing air. Thanks :-) [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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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)
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