NASA PLANS TO MOVE THE EARTH?

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Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,504486,00.html

Robin McKie, science editor
Observer

Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot.

All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.

This startling idea of improving our interplanetary neighbourhood is the brainchild of a group of Nasa engineers and American astronomers who say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet - effectively doubling its working life.

'The technology is not at all far-fetched,' said Dr Greg Laughlin, of the Nasa Ames Research Center in California. 'It involves the same techniques that people now suggest could be used to deflect asteroids or comets heading towards Earth. We don't need raw power to move Earth, we just require delicacy of planning and manoeuvring.'

The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams, involves carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it sweeps close past our planet and transfers some of its gravitational energy to Earth.

Earth's orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun.

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

I think that in NASA's point of view this Option is easier.....

Can you imagine asking evryone, (and I mean everyone)
to sacrifice and stop polluting this planet?

- Ask Millionares to stop polluting and use their money to
spend it on upgrading their factories, and other factories in third world countries
that cannot afford it?
- Ask everyone to hop on the BUS?
- Ask Everyone to use fuels that do not give you as much "horse power"
- Ask everyone to not use their ACs to conserve energy
- Ask everyone to stop using chemicals such as your "AXE" deodorant,

Just the tasks mentioned above are almost imposible, and makes the
idea of using a comet to move our earth as silly as the ones persented above...

Good intentions, but they are a Disney fantasy....I think our generations have not grasped on the idea that we are on this planet together

And now for some other ideas presented: /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif