What if we could move the sun? 🤔🌞

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Earth and all the other planets in our solar system are being dragged on a joyride through the universe, as the Dead Planeteers attempt to move the sun. Their destination? The Pillars of Creation.

Leah and Chelsea are joined by Jay Farihi, Professor of Astrophysics at University College London, as they figure out just how slowly the sun would have to move to bring the planets with it.

A big hurdle they first have to overcome is how exactly to move the sun in the first place. Their experimental list of ideas includes:

Tugging on the sun with a black hole ⚫️
Guiding it through the universe with a sun sail ⛵️
Using gravitons to create a giant space car 🏎️
Popping the sun like a balloon 🎈

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from causing a gravitational wave apocalypse to unifying the asteroid belt – and subjects them to real science.⁠



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Sun is constantly moving on its own way around our galaxy and it drag us with themself... Primary school physics...

Klannahar
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Ummm... You do know that our solar system aswell as the whole Galaxy moves.. it travels thru space alot actually ... , 🤦

J.Knox
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Wasn't there a recent simulation that really makes us question as to whether Jupiter actually protects us? As I understood it, the simulation showed that Jupiter was at least as likely to increase danger as decrease it.

geekchameleon
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What if we could take some of the CO2 that makes Venus hot like hell to cool it and put all that CO2 on Mars to warm it and gain 2 habitable planets.

quantumcat
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Yep, just a spare few Hundred Million Years, or so, s l o w l y dragging the sun to who knows where...

Of course, if humanity ever gets advanced enough to _move_ G-Type Main Sequence Stars, we might as well just manufacture a few dozen Dyson Spheres & spread them around the galaxy.

Ninth_Penumbra
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Well no longer following or ever reading anything from New Scientist again.

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