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It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility’s budget.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3291/
From the “Futurama solves global warming” school of thought.
I thought of Futurama too, but instead how the Ships engines move the Universe around IT
I thought that was a silly joke but that’s actually more or less how an alcubierre drive would work.
Is it though?
Giant chemical engines to push a planet away is like bending space around a spacecraft?
It came to me in a dream, and then I forgot it in another dream.
That’s a complete load!
no, it’s only a third of the load. i left the other two thirds with a friendly laotian couple.
Nothing’s a complete load! Not if you can imagine it; that’s what being a scientist is all about!
Don’t dream it, be it.
I was thinking of the robots all firing their exhaust upward to push earth away from the sun.