What could go wrong?
Fritz Zwicky’s mind was badly scrambled by being called last for EVERYTHING.
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
I like it just the way it is....................
Besides, where would he put Uranus?................
Moving planets around is risky and is best done gravitationally over 10s of thousands of years.
Souce: io9.com
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.
That’s certainly a far fetched idea, re-arranging God’s scheme of things.
Here’s my problem. Man has still not even conquered the oceans. Cannot get to the deepest parts, no clue what’s down there...but wants to fly off and conquer space? Go figure.
Using nukes as demolitions for harvesting asteroids has been an idea I’ve kicked around from time to time.
Further, it’s also an argument against anti-gun folks when they start talking stupid about “we limit nukes!” in relation to gun ownership.
Diabolical Genius, is something discouraged these days unless it is done for gore-bull warning...
Fritz Zwicky has long been known as the crazy uncle of Astronomy. Utterly brilliant and completely nuts. He once grew frustrated with atmospheric distortions in his observations, so he had a graduate assistant fire rifle bullets through the observatory dome in a vain attempt to still the air. His introduction to the Catalogue of Selected Compact Galaxies (found online at http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept02/Zwicky/Zwicky1.html ) is infamous for excoriating the high popes and sycophants of astronomy.
(As an aside, I find that you can replace all references in the above link to astronomy with “global warming” or “climate change” and the rant is still valid)
In short, I’m not surprised to learn of this plan at all.
MikeD, a Zwicky fan since grad school