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Robert — 9/23/2005 1:51:42 AM (archived)

No reason you couldn't set the stars in a cluster all thrusting the same way, per the previous noodling around, thereby dragging their parent galaxy off...somewhere. Like, maybe to create the Universal Dyson Sphere.

Let's see you top that.

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A Gravitational Tractor for Towing Planetoids - LJK - 9/21/2005 3:19:11 PM
- Hey! If you could get a large lump of neutronium, stretch it out into a parabolic sheet. ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/21/2005 11:31:34 PM
- Huh... - Robert - 9/21/2005 6:47:47 PM
  - There would be a limit to efficiency as the body size increases. - et - 9/22/2005 11:14:41 PM
    - Hmmmm.... - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:48:03 AM
      - GMm/r^2 and other stuff... - et - 9/23/2005 4:32:41 AM
  - And I get called a megalomaniac. - Lee - 9/22/2005 5:47:26 AM
    - Nope. - et - 9/22/2005 11:07:19 PM
      - Insensitivity is such a relative and subjective thing. - Lee - 9/23/2005 5:59:12 AM
  - Great idea... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2005 12:24:26 AM
    - Scales well - Robert - 9/22/2005 3:40:17 AM
      - Speaking of moving stars - Robert - 9/22/2005 3:55:46 AM
        
        Necessary for constructing the Galactic Dyson Sphere - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:27:44 PM
        
        Still thinking small - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:51:42 AM
        
        That's nothing! - Topper - 9/23/2005 6:36:50 AM
        
        Ummm.... - LJK - 9/23/2005 11:42:47 AM
        
        Recommended viewing... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2005 8:56:32 AM
        
        Ibzsispd ?"Invader Zim"? masprullingortst?? - Robert - 9/23/2005 1:55:29 AM
        
        Obey the Fist! - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:22:04 PM
  - If you want to re-engineer the inner Sol system... - LJK - 9/21/2005 7:42:53 PM
    - Better yet... - Adam - 9/22/2005 11:46:15 AM
      - re: Better yet... - LJK - 9/22/2005 12:09:09 PM

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