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The Astronomer Who Wanted to Rearrange the Solar System, Using Nukes
http://io9.com/how-to-colonize-the-solar-system-using-nukes-1575887177/+Mark-Strauss ^
| 5/14/14
| Mark Strauss
Posted on 05/15/2014 10:03:28 AM PDT by DannyTN
CalTech astronomer Fritz Zwicky was the first to conceive of dark matter, supernovas and neutron stars. He also had a theory about colonizing the solar system using nuclear bombs. We could terraform other planets, he argued, by pulverizing them and then moving them closer or further from the sun.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darkenergy; darkforce; darkmatter; fritzzwicky; markstrauss; neutronstars; spacetravel; speedofdark; supernovas; terraforming; xplanets
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Interesting ideas on tunneling and mining the earth, using the entire solar system for space travel, and terraforming planets.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:03:28 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:05:59 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: DannyTN
Fritz Zwicky’s mind was badly scrambled by being called last for EVERYTHING.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: DannyTN
Why can’t we terraform Mars and move it to our orbit, except on the opposite side of the sun? Then we could lob payloads into space and they’d meet it in a few months.
:p
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:06:23 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: DannyTN
I like it just the way it is....................
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:06:58 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: DannyTN
Besides, where would he put Uranus?................
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:07:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: DannyTN
Moving planets around is risky and is best done gravitationally over 10s of thousands of years.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:07:51 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:08:08 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Dr. Sivana
He should have enrolled at my school, where he could have been in front of the Zylstras.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:08:17 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: DannyTN
I like my idea of digging a sea-level ship canal from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, following the US-Mexico border. Both more practical and more feasible than anything that is suggested in this highly speculative projection.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:08:43 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:09:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hieronymus
He should have enrolled at my school, where he could have been in front of the Zylstras.
That would have pushed the Zylstras over the edge!
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:09:09 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: Dr. Sivana
I had a teacher in grade school who arranged us in reverse alphabetical order, just to solve that problem................Thank You Mrs, Zyzzyg!................
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:09:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Red Badger
According to the article, he wants to downsize Uranus, by blasting chunks off of it. Got to give him credit for vision.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:12:54 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
That’s certainly a far fetched idea, re-arranging God’s scheme of things.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:14:56 AM PDT
by
Vinylly
(?%)
To: DannyTN
According to the article, he wants to downsize Uranus, by blasting chunks off of it.
Gonna take a whole lot of it...............
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:15:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: GeronL
-PJ
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:16:16 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Vinylly
But we do it all the time. We plow fields, plant crops where they wouldn’t have grown naturally. Cut down trees, and build buildings instead of living in natural caves.
The only difference here is the scale. That and the fact that we only have one solar system to play with and it happens to be the one we live in.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:17:28 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Political Junkie Too
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:20:03 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Red Badger
“Thank You Mrs, Zyzzyg!..”
Done in the name of Great Justice no doubt.
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posted on
05/15/2014 10:20:56 AM PDT
by
Justa
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