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Re: Moving Venus to Earth orbit

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From: Urban F
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:38
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tes@nomad.uucp (Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]) writes:

>Another plan I have (as long as I'm already off the deep end) is ignite
>Jupiter's atmosphere. It would be easier since it has all that hydrogen in it.

I wouldn't use the word "ignite" if I didn't have anything to burn it
with. But maybe you are thinking of nuclear fusion? Like the floating,
pulsing ramjet used in Larry Niven's A World out of Time (only I think
it was Saturn or Uranus). Fiction, of course.
--
 Urban Fredriksson   urf@icl.se
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  haven't used their best arguments." -- Runer Jonsson
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