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980119 No.980119 [Reply] [Original]

Radiation on the surface of other planets that don't have a natural magnetic field is one of the big hindrances of Human inhabitants or exploration, so why then aren't we able to send structures that are able to create artificial magnetic fields?

Is it that the technology simply doesn't exist yet? Or it's just not cost-effective?

>> No.980150

because we'd have to 'spin' the planet fast enough to generate one. We don't have enough power to rotate a planet, let alone fast enough to generate EMF

>> No.980153

>>980150
If we can generate enough power to reach another solar system, I think we can apply it to a world at that point. Hell maybe we're looking at it the wrong way, maybe earth is our ship we just dont have the rocket pack strapped on.

>> No.980167

Because it's far easier to just build underground and garner the exact same benefit from 200 yards of solid rock.

>> No.980211

>>980153
what.. i tiny probe?
that isn't gonna rotate a planet dude..

>> No.980218

>>980150

Why aren't we able to create various structures, something likened to cell-phone towers, that produce a magnetic field between each other?

>> No.980253

>>980218
> Why can't we?
Because it's a retarded idea to waste 90% of your colony's energy budget on Magnets.

>> No.980256

>>980253

So I take it, it is possible to do then?

>> No.980269

>>980256
Oh, perhaps I wasn't clear enough.
It's retarded to waste 1590% of your colony's energy budget on magnets, and 173625379173476% of humanity's energy budget on reigniting the planet's core.

>> No.980271

>>980269

That didn't answer my question in the slightest.

>> No.980449

>>980218

Bump.

>> No.980457

The technology neither exists, nor would it be practical. Might as well build a planet from scratch.

>> No.980460

>>980218
Wouldn't be strong enough of a field to do what you are proposing. You'd need some pretty serious electromagnets and an unlimited power source.

>> No.980463

>>980460

Alright, that's all I wanted to know.
Thanks Anons.

>> No.980526

>>980153
>earth is our ship
Wouldn't that fuck up orbits for the rest of the solar system? If we moved the planet a significant distance?