16-March-2005, 10:03 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: U.K.
Posts: 5,126
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There are two ways I can imagine where humans could, in principle, be used to significantly affect the earth's orbit:
(1) Build a "human gun" that fires people into space at a velocity arbitrarily close to the speed of light (.9999999999....), never to return. The energy source, gun design and managing the potentially damaging effects on the planet and the people being fired are left as an exercise to the reader.
(2) Remove all people from the earth at conventional velocity, then fire them at the earth at a speed arbitrarily close to light. The method to accelerate the people to this speed is left as an exercise to the reader.
While both methods could affect the earth's orbit, it is expected that the effect on both people and planet would be somewhat unpleasant.
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I think Amnesty International would have something to say about this idea.....
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