Re: [GZG] Shifting planets

["Richard Kirke" <richardkirke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > You have to put in the energy to change that mass by that speed. That's 
> not a huge project, nor a HHUUGGEE project....that's something where you'd 
> need to put banner paper in your printer to print out how huge it is.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Piece of cake. Take a gas giant, gig giant magnetic accelerators as fusion 
> torches and fuel them from the atmosphere. Then just swing the gas giant 
> into a lower solar orbit, pick up Venus as a satellite, then move it back 
> out.
>
> Worked for moving Earth out of reach of Sol's expansion into a gas giant in 
> Niven's "World out of Time".

Ah, simple.


Has anyone got any giant magnetic accelerators?


Laserlight, you of course right. The amound of kinetic energy required to 
shift venus is quite a lot. but then again, even in the Tuffleyverse large 
starships are transported across the universe at speeds greater then C, and 
that requires a lot of energy too.

Richard


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