http://scott_sanford.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2011-02-11 05:40 am (UTC)

Get your planet going
Head out of the system
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes your way

Yeah, darlin'
Gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space


This is interesting, but there's no commentary on how long this is stable. Without insolation, I suspect it is not viable over deep time. Millions of years, yes, but hardly a good idea for the really long haul.

On the other hand, this would make a breathtaking brute force generation ship.

Decelerating at the other end seems problematic.

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