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Re: How would you move a planet?
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Tue, 18 Feb 2003 01:52:59 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
Ideas?

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 +2 while wearing a
gravitational-attraction-nullification suit, and give a little push.
     Science is so simple when you understand the basic principles.

Peace and Long Life,
Tony Alexander



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  How would you move a planet?
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)

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