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One thing I'm pretty confident humanity will never do is move planets around like marbles. The masses involved make the suggestion laughable.

• arbuge 3y ago
  It's a pretty dangerous game to play in any case. One slight deviation in a planet's orbit can throw an entire solar system out of balance over not-so-long time periods. Before you know it, your lush green planet is hurtling out alone into interstellar space, dooming your civilization to a quick death on an icy rogue world.
  • hkt 3y ago
    Sounds like the kind of thing an "enlightened" trillionaire might try. See also, geoengineering..
    • taude 3y ago
      I feel like this thread is writing the next great Jerry Bruckheimer or Micheal Bay movie.
• afavour 3y ago
  There’s a British space comedy called Red Dwarf that has surprisingly good novelisations by the original show writers. One novel has a sequence where they play pool with planets, obviously completely unrealistic but it’s a really fun sequence. There’s also another separate sequence describing how humans abandon Earth and use it as a giant landfill, resulting in a massive methane explosion that shoots Earth out of the solar system and into frozen deep space. All very silly but very imaginative.
• taude 3y ago
  Larry Niven's "A World Out of Time" had this as a plot device, when he wrote it in the 70s. I enjoyed the book a lot, a lot of hard-sci-fi readers did not.