Re: Two "do my homeworks" questions

raph...@xxxxxxxxxxxx supplied:

> 2 papers dealing with the topic at hand:

Ironicly, one of the authors (Fred Adams) sat on my commitee for my
PhD. Had I known there was someone at U of M at thetime into this
stuff, who knows what my these would have ended up as (or, on the down
side, how much longer it would have taken).

As long as we're talking megaengineering, let's not forget a much
earlier contribution: Paul Birch and his "Dynamic compression members".
It appears I've lost (!) his paper on moving planets, but it seems to
be on-line at:

http://www.paulbirch.net/

(under papers, look for "How To Move a Planet"). Using these methods,
you can do things like spin-up Venus or move Mars on timescales of
thirty years (!), or make the "surface" of Jupiter habitable
(Supramundane planets). Dang I wish I still had access to JBIS.

--
Brian Davis

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