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September 1, 2000 from TheTerraformingInformationPages Website
In the September-October 2000 issue of the bimonthly Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (London, UK), Dr. Viorel Badescu and R.B. Cathcart detail the technical feasibility of deliberately moving our Solar System.
In their paper, "Stellar Engines for
Kardachev’s Type II Civilizations",
they treat our familiar Sun as a rocket motor nowadays wastefully
spewing its mass in every direction, and show that it can be
controlled by emplacement of several enormous reflective screens in
space, causing a selected vectored thrust after their installation.
Dr. Badescu, 47, is an internationally recognized solar energy researcher presently working at the Candida Oancea Institute of Solar Energy (COISE, founded 1997) in Bucharest, Romania.
Primarily responsible for the computer simulations, the lead author built on the work first attempted by Leonid M. Shkadov. Shkadov, 73, reported on the possibility of controlling our Solar System’s motion at the 10-17 October 1987 38th Congress of the International Astronomical Federation in Brighton, UK, as paper 1AA-87-613.
Currently, he is Deputy Director,
International Business Department, at the Central Aerohydrodynamic
Institute (TaAGI, founded 1918) located at Zhukovsky, Moscow Region,
Russia.
Also, should future unfavorable local changes in the Milky Way Galaxy provoke a desire to move our Solar System, whatever its physical form, this can be done quite effectively utilizing two new types of stellar engine!
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