Moving Stars

1999-9-24 17:16:00

Dave Comments:

"JJ Dewey says:
"Imagine having the power to move the star system of Alpha Centura into our solar system creating a double star and much easier access to its planets so we can transform its primitive life into a Garden of Eden.

"Seems to me, that if you did this, you would throw off the balance of our solar system. As quoted from my friend, "The added radiation from another star in our solar system would fry all life on our planet."

Breakfast, anyone?

"I understand that it's fairly well known and accepted in the scientific community, that changes in space can affect wind patterns on Earth, and cause various other weather patterns to occur. It's even suggested that the Eclipse on August 11th of this month, helped to cause that moderately destructive tornado that materialized right here in the heart of Salt Lake City. Tornados aren't supposed to occur in Utah.

"I'm not sure we would want another star in our solar system. Beyond the added radiation, it could negatively affect the gravitation pull of our own sun, thus disrupting the normal orbit of our own planet, possibly causing us to hurl out into space, or be torn apart completely. If none of that happened, then the extra daylight would heat up our planet exponentially (greenhouse effect) and melt the polar ice caps a little faster than I would feel comfortable, thus flooding our most of our land. Plus, the humidity, can you imagine?"

JJ
When the time comes (in the far future) that we can move stars and if we decided to move Alpha Centura here it would be probably placed a distance away like several times the orbit of Pluto. When you look up in the sky you would not see a bright sun, but a very bright star with the luminosity of the moon. Still this would make the system very accessible with future technology. Right now traveling at the speed of light it would take 4.3 years to get to Alpha Centura but with the new location would only take a couple days.

In this future we will have full control over the weather and effects of radiation and have near complete control over the effects that such a move would create.