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Re: How would you move a planet?
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Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:32:49 GMT
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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 planets (5, I think) into equidistant points
along the same orbit, then used tugs with gravity generators to get them all
moving the way they wanted them to go. once that was done, they landed the
tugs and let their system hurtle through space toward it's new destination.
makes a really neat mental image, doesn't it? 5 planets full of people,
spinning slowly around a star that's zooming through space (like an
intergalactic mazda commercial.)
yay for artificial gravity, eh?
-Anthony
"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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