Date: 2006-01-16 12:31 Subject: Blast From The Past Security: Public Tags: god, life, physics, planets, religion, science, space program, space travel

(Wrote this in a forum last year. Not specifically my idea, but just exploring it.)

Some people in their signatures say that they don't want to play God, just borrow his SMITE button.

Forget that, I want to borrow his PULL FIRMAMENT FROM VOID button.

How about this:

1) Boost Venus from its current orbit (3/4 AU) up to Earth's belt level...maybe a good distance ahead or behind Terra/Luna in the same track. For an encore I'd boost Mercury up as well and make that Venus' moon.

2) Take Mars (along with both Deimos and Phobos) and drop them into the Terran orbit track as well.

3) Loot the bigger moons from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and slip them into comfortable orbits, also along the Terran orbit track.

Between the dozen or so planetary and satellite bodies given, we could expand the elbow room for Homo Sapiens and Company at least three or four times, maybe more, depending on how many moons get looted from the Gas Giants. Of course, the Solar Systemic juggling act would take levels of energy far beyond anything possible with current technology. But if you're going to get the power of a God, it is surely better to rearrange than to burn. :)

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And I want to mention two things: 1)Twenty years ago this month, I started my first terms at college. 2)A few years ago, I predicted that the world as we knew it would end this month. Earth would be turned into a burnt-out desert world so that eleven others would support Terrestrial life. Of course, this prediction has a possibility rating of less than 1%.

FP

Date: 2006-01-16 18:22 Subject: Fandom Meme Security: Public Tags: anime, comics, dc comics, fandom, fantasy, filler, marvel comics, meme, science-fiction, webcomics, who am i

Via robby_bevard:

Step 1 - Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
Step 2 - Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each item
Step 3 - Post in your own journal.

(Mmm...obsessive fannish love? That's a challenge...)

1. Doctor Who
2. Battlestar Galactica (the original)
3. Star Wars IV ~ VI
4. Robotech
5. Fans! (The T Campbell Webcomic)
6. College Roomies From Hell!!!
7. Shortpacked!
8. Nodwick
9. Knights of the Dinner Table
10. Superdimension Century Orguss
11. Gundam (Universal Century timeline)
12. Rhea Gall Force/Gall Force Earth Chapters
13. Bubblegum Crisis/Crash
14. Dirty Pair
15. Martian Successor Nadesico
16. The Big O
17. Area 88
18. Kimagure Orange Road
19. DC Comics
20. Marvel Comics