using a huge magnet on a rocky surface on earth and pluto to bring it closer to study and discover but then send it out once your done.
2007-10-30 08:44:29 · 9 answers · asked by felton_zach 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
pull it in slow to reduce the gravity pull make an new element that atracts the magnet only
2007-10-30 09:07:33 · update #1
reverse the gravity pull
2007-10-30 09:11:01 · update #2
Lots of problems with that.
No magnet strong enough to be felt so far away could ever be made. Even it it could, such a strong magnet would pull every bit of metal on Earth to it, pulling the steel beams out of all the tall buildings in the world and so on.
And how would you get the other giant magnet to Pluto in the first place? If you could take something that big to Pluto, you could just take a whole laboratory there to study it in place, right?
And the force pulling Pluto to Earth would also pull Earth toward Pluto. Remember, Earth isn't attached to anything fixed. It is orbiting just like Pluto. It would mess up the Earth's orbit, which would probably change the climate to a super cold ice age by pulling Earth away from the Sun.
2007-10-30 09:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your understanding of basic scientific principles, not to mention of human capabilities, is sadly typical of that of the new generation. I don't blame you, I blame your "educators". But surely you have some direct experience of magnets; have you ever noticed how close to a metallic object you must bring the magnet in order to pick it up? That's because magnets don't work well over long distances, such as the distance from here to Pluto. Even were that not the case, humans lack the capacity to construct a magnet of sufficient size to move an entire dwarf planet, or to power such a magnet could it be built.
You and your crazy schemes. :)
PS: I neglected to mention that even if we could construct and power a magnet to pull Pluto closer to Earth, the inevitable result would be that Earth would be pulled outward to a new and much colder orbit, probably ending all life that survived being cooked by the excess heat from the magnet.
2007-10-30 10:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
b/c the magnetic field that said magnet would produce would at the very least though the earth off its axis and spin somewhere in the universe. My guess would be a magnet that size would probably be stronger than say ... the gravitational pull from the sun and thus would probably pull the sun toward us and we would all burn to death. Just a though though.
.... i think you are looking for a "tractor beam"
2007-10-30 08:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by Icon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A huge magnet, pulling a planet close, pushing it away when you're done, reduce the gravity, invent a new element to attract the magnet (!), reverse gravity . . .
You don't ask much, do you?
2007-10-30 09:29:56 · answer #4 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't be serious??
You could never make a magnetic big enough. Even if you could, it would attract all the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter first bringing them crashing into Earth.
And, how do you propose to "send it back again"?
This makes Star Wars look logical.
2007-10-30 08:52:08 · answer #5 · answered by chelseablue 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely right. In fact, I was planning on using my home made tractor beam to pull Jupiter in tonight. Want to help me push the buttons?
2007-10-31 15:11:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing wrong with it except that it wouldn't work. There are no magnets strong enough to do that.
2007-10-31 13:39:51 · answer #7 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The necessary size of the magnet. That would be so wrong, man.
:-)
2007-10-30 08:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a more plausible idea is to make a really big rope, lasso Pluto, and pull it in.
2007-10-30 08:57:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋