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In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole" the crew use a thermonuclear device to cause a solar flare, knocking a planet off its orbit, sending it cannoning around a solar system, colliding with other planets, and eventually plugging up a white hole … I can't give Series and Episode on that, b...

One of these powers they use is the Sheewash drive, consisting of several small pieces of wire twisted together in a special arrangement and activated by Klaatha. {...} Later in the story it's mentioned that the witches occasionally move their planet from one solar system to another to get away fro...

Given that the total area of two hands is well under 0.1 square meters, the logical consequence would be him driving into the ground with ridiculous amounts of force, but apparently comic book physics doesn't work like that. Sorry, I've just been facing a torrent of the Niburu-gormless in response ...

spud42 wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 1:16 pm

dont worry about the planets are not rotating

Ohhh, that would change the geometry of the diced planet. More like thin-sliced planet. Cosmic-scale bacon slicer.

even if it was physically possible! The materials are not strong enough - by a LOT. You'd need to put your tisket and tasket of a planet into some sort of little basket. I'm not sure what spacing of your unobtanium cables would need to be, to avoid them cheese-wiring through the continents and mant...

So we have

[*] 1 -ffutures with SuperBoy doing a dope-on-a-rope trick with a chain of planets from an exploding galaxy,
[*] 2 - Disembodied having everyone's chain pulled by the Tardis

Very much the Usual Suspects.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 10:21 am

Arguably this is a blue, for planet and police box … in the Doctor Who story "Journey's End", the TARDIS tows the Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxILNKZCMzE&t=34s

I should have guessed the Tardis would get involved somewhere.

Not sure which colour this is - green? VERY silly anyway... https://imgur.com/a/kP1pz Green? Doubly-ionized oxygen - "OII" - emission, usually triggered by fluorescence from ultraviolet in the stars spectrum. Which would imply that SB has only just got started, or has been very unlucky in...

Oh, rude words. OK, in the last couple of rounds we've had the Puppeteers using the "Outsider drive" to hurl planets around like Rocket Ronnie with the bit between his teeth, EE Doc Smith's Lensmen doing the same, and the whoever doing whatever to the Great Evil to cause the Great Evil to ...

Having knocked out the "Great Evil" in it's repeating orbit around the Sun (not "rogue"), I'll try for the #4 post, with the "ice planet" encountered by the good ship "Long Pass" in Niven and Lerner's "of Worlds" series, tying up lots of Niven's &quo...

I'm prepared to accept it: it's sufficiently large enough to form itself into a sphere. Which isn't involved in the (current) definition of a planet. But in any case, being in an orbit - even a 5000 year orbit - isn't "rogue". We've several observed objects on orbits that long in the Sola...

the "Great Evil," which appears to be a small planet- or planetoid-sized being that threatens earth every 5000 years Ummm, if it reappears on a 5000 year cycle, then it's in orbit around the Sun, not "rogue". Off the top of my "Solar system notes" sheet, at 5000yr, it'...

How about: five examples of scifi set on, or at least involving, "rogue" planets Urrgh ... I'm remembering a ... Poul Anderson book I read once, many many years ago, set on a planet between galaxies (the description of the Milky Way in one direction and Andromeda in the other ... like the...

I detect and delete the accounts of spambots! Which sort-of implies that (on this board) you must have registered an account before posting. I probably saw something to that effect when I was signing up, but it was so long ago. It also implies that there are people who allow account-free posting on...

Don't panic, you have not joined the Spam Assassins! Oh well. What does spam assassinery mean? Since you're a sharp-shooter. I also note, now, that in this reply the "explanation" bit of the footer is missing. Odd. Or left over from some decades-ago design choice? Meh. A minor point occur...