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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:40 AM Original message |
Nasa aims to move Earth |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. ... |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
19. He's a one-trick pony |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
2. Tugg Speedman film to follow. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. Dumb. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. wow...the absolute intergalactic lengths we would go just to avoid |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Technically, this would be merely interplanetary... |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. The article also refers to the eventual heating of the sun in a billion years or so |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. funny you bring that up |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #17 |
38. Wow on May 14, 2061, my son will be turning 62. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. Yep - it is not a serious proposal for handling current global warming |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. Ah, back in my Salad Days, |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well, sex with me would achieve that. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Have any plans for this weekend? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. LOL....do you work for NASA? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yeah I saw this on Futurama. |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. "An Inconvenient Truth" even uses the mini-documentary from that episode, if I recall. |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. Comet??? Just Give Me A Big Enough Lever And Fulcrum |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. A humongous solar sail would be a safer version of this plan... |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
13. I vote we scrap that plan and simply cut our greenhouse gas emissions. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
14. I have a better idea... |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. And boiled cabbage - don't forget that! |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. And a few lbs. of sugarless candy for everyone, just to make sure... |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
15. uh, how about we try stopping pollution first. just a thought. |
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Bill219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. I guess these guys have never watched Thundarr the Barbarian |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. lol...when i was a kid i actually thought that would happen in 1994 |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. How could the moon have been destroyed in 1994... |
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Bill219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. touche |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
24. This is 8 years old. The plan is meant to deal with avoiding an expanding sun. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
28. "America can, will, and should blow up the moon." |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
29. And the Bush administration talked about cooling the Earth with smoke and mirrors! |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "Ever since the beginning of time, man has yearned to blot out the sun." |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. I need one of those on the west side of my house |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
31. brilliant.... |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
32. Oh - THAT should end well............ |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
33. I can't think of any risk involved in this plan. Can you? |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I think the outer solar system will greet us as liberators. |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
34. Just like the Losties moved the island? (nt) |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
36. The idea has been around in SF for quite some time now.. |
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