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[testitemqlstudop]

I literally have no idea of the details.

Apparently each of the several million engines eject a beam of plasma at very high velocities. Furthermore, the Earth moves *away* from the Sun at the same time, so instead of heating, the entire Earth freezes over. As it passes over Jupiter it loses much of its atmosphere, too.

[wildmyron]

I literally have no idea of the details.

Apparently each of the several million engines eject a beam of plasma at very high velocities. Furthermore, the Earth moves *away* from the Sun at the same time, so instead of heating, the entire Earth freezes over. As it passes over Jupiter it loses much of its atmosphere, too.

Just had a look - hadn't heard of the film (or the book) til now. I think I will have a look at some point. Btw, there are apparently 10000 engines - and they are massive. According to a NASA engineer quoted for a story on inverse.com, those engines would need to be 10^9 times more powerful than the F-1 engine used on Saturn V. And would consume an enormous mass of Earth rock in order to get us to Jupiter in the 17 year time frame given in the Earth. Just slowing the rotation of the Earth is perhaps a little less implausible, but I'm still not sure if it would be technically feasible to build a plasma engine which could eject the beam from the Earth's atmosphere at above escape velocity (particularly with current technology).