Talk:Stellar engine

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should this article include explanation/hypothesis of why it would ever be necesary to move a star? user:vroman

Maybe in a short paragraph at the end... I can only think of exploration and moving out of dangerous areas of space. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 10:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps the stars are being moved for aesthetic reasons? Thomas Purnell 15:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Magnetic Satellites

I've heard a theory that if you could somehow manipulate magnetic fields with a series of large satellites, you could cause, say, a star and a planet to repel each other. Is that feasible? I slighly doubt the veracity of that claim, but I'm no physicist. Does anything know anything about that? Scourgeofsmallishinsects 15:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speed?

So how fast would a star move under the influence of a stellar engine? Anyone have a guess? --Brasswatchman 05:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laser Stars

Lasers Stars can be qualified as class B stellar engines?

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I'm not sure ... I think a good argument can be made both for and against that. A class B stellar engine extracts energy for a usable purpose, and a laser star does indeed do that. At one end of the spectrum you have something as small and insignificant as a solar panel, and at the other end a Matrioshka Brain. Both harness the output of the star for a purpose. The later is clearly a Stellar engine; I think few people would label the former that way. Laser stars fall somewhere in the middle. Where the "dividing line" is, is a matter of interpretation. - Vedexent (talk) - 05:23, 28 July 2007 (UTC)