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Paulon · 02-16-2019, 03:41 AM

The novel 'A World Out Of Time' by Larry Niven had Earth moved out to be a moon of Jupiter, pulled by the gravitational field of Uranus. A double ended nuclear rocket was put into the gas giant's atmosphere and used to move the planet around the solar system, towing Earth to a new orbit.

02-16-2019, 03:41 AM	#2
Paulon Join Date: Feb 2005	Re: Shielding Earth/Moving Earth from Suns Red Giant phase. The novel 'A World Out Of Time' by Larry Niven had Earth moved out to be a moon of Jupiter, pulled by the gravitational field of Uranus. A double ended nuclear rocket was put into the gas giant's atmosphere and used to move the planet around the solar system, towing Earth to a new orbit.