Re: Red Rectangle of Qwelldor

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 03:36:29 MDT

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    On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 06:24:34PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    >
    > Could be the unspecified companion(s) are Jupiter Brains sucking up
    > all the extra material the star is releasing. When one is dealing
    > with stellar sized gravity wells one may simply not bother to be
    > "polite" about the processes one uses.

    Dear Miss Manners: what is the proper way of eating a blue giant star?
    -- Hostess Binary

    Dear Mrs Binary, the traditional way of starlifting parties has been to
    increase the rotation of the main star and then use magnetic field
    straws to gather the plasma from the equator. This was messy, and while
    it does break the ice at parties, it usually ended up scattering gas all
    over the place and giving some of the guests less mass than they
    decently should get. These days the proper method is generally
    recognized as making the central star precess. This produces a nice
    thick disk that can be grabbed nicely along the circumferense,
    especially if you have provided some orbiting neutronium chunks that can
    be used for focus (always a popular addition to megascale cooking; I got
    mine from the Ophiuichi Stellar Engineers). A nice decoration is to let
    the gas cool down enough for carbon compound molecules to form, they
    give the spectrum a festive appearance.

    I hope your star lifting party will be a great and tidy success.

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