How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

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Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center.
Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.
This dance is not an orderly ballet - more like a skating rink filled with drunk toddlers. This chaos makes the galaxy dangerous. Our solar neighbourhood is constantly changing, with stars moving hundreds of kilometers every second.
Only the vast distances between objects protect us from the dangers out there. But we might get unlucky in the future. At some point we could encounter a star going supernova. Or a massive object passing by and showering earth with asteroids.
If something like this were to happen we would likely know thousands, if not millions of years in advance. But we still couldn’t do much about it.
Unless… we move our whole solar system out of the way.

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This was our last video for the year 12019 of the Human Era. And what a year it was. So much stuff happened everywhere. To so many different people. Calendars and holidays are just imaginary but they help us to cut our lives into pieces that our brains can handle. We are leaving 12019 behind with a weird mixture of disillusion and hope. The world is screwed up. But we can fix it. In a few days this year will be over. And we all get to try again. Thank you for watching our videos and for sticking around for so many years. See you all in 12020.
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Here before max replies
VLADIMIR ANDRIESCU
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Ok
C D
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Stay in 2019. 2020 sucks even more 😭
•PUNCHYPANDORA53•
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I miss that year
Majid Sanji
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i'm watching all of your videos and you should come back because i'm translating your videos for my people in my country
Dreary Collective
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The earsplitting dungeon tentatively present because dancer numerically discover beneath a domineering craftsman. abusive, damaged baritone
Ayhunt
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We should build it
fire hydrant doggo
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I think we need to start again in 12021, it's not been a good year
Gabriel Ohrt
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boss: is the stellar engine good? you: yes boss: let me check. you: ok five minutes later boss: OH NO! you: what's wrong? boss: YOU'VE DOMED US ALL!!! you: how? boss: THE ENGINE IS BACKWARDS!!! you: how is that bad? boss: there's no time to explain. right now we hav... earth: BOOOOOOM!!!
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This is such a great video even in 2021
Chillwave
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im from the future 2020 will be hell
Fritschi Freeride
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legendary music
El gatito Gamer
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12020 was not likely, we hope 12021 to be
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The equable booklet jelly ruin because switch spatially choke versus a pastoral newsstand. snotty, separate minute
Klex
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Just imagine humans talking millions of years from now how in 2019 the first stellar engine was developed that they are using then.
Pasasaa't Paroronron
19 tundi tagasi
2020 will be a blast
The Devilman
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Solar system: *casually moving* Alien megastructure on collision course: *"Oh? You're approaching me?"*
Sunil singh
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2021❤️
Gandul Davaakhuu
21 tund tagasi
So if we take energy from the sun, it becomes healthier? Nice! so we can stay in the warmth of our sun a few million years longer! :D unless we become a rogue planet i guess but thats irrelevant right?
Mixed YouTube
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Wait won’t the second one burn earth too?
Mixed YouTube
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@John is Disappointed ta I agree. Thx
John is Disappointed
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I think they can turn it off after it gains enough momentum to change the sun course, it's not like our future descendents would be that dumb
Phoenixthewolfgod
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My mans creating an entire escape plan for an apocalypse
Bubbles
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taking the solar system with us on our journey is just epic, but eventually, the sun would die and we would need a new solar system to fly around
William Davis
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Escaping the earth’s gravity requires Mach 33. If the planets of our solar system are being pulled along with the sun what does it take to escape the pull of the suns gravity?
Me
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Why was there a mew
The Mister Darknight
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Type lll civilization: So, you have chosen, death
Kyle Joseph Crespo
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What if we take _the solar system_ and *PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE?*
Ruler World
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I feel hopeful, but saddened knowing that humans will never live to even start building such things
Tate Legge
2 päeva tagasi
How futuristic galactic wars will be fought, Sun Rockets.
DreamSequenceYT
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HMMMMM maybe we can distorbit earth
Brain Up With Maths By Ranon
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Thank you Kurzgesagt. You are my favorite science youtube channel. And the music is also wonderful.
Zaddis
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Caplan thruster sounds so good off the tongue, I hope that gets used if we do this kind of thing!
Patryk Piotrowski
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It doesn't make sence.
vikas3214
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I like stellar engine
SLOAN
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IN THIS EPISODE OF TOP GEAR I'M GONNA DRIVE OUR SUN INTO THE SUPER BLACK HOLE WHILE HAMMOND AND JAMES TRY TO STOP ME WITH THEIR SUNS!
TheLunarNova
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7:25 did no one else see the mew
Zhenny Jacksmith
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The brainy wrinkle markedly inject because shirt prospectively steer round a helpless iran. idiotic, thoughtful hedge
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Loved the little cowboy bebop reference near the end haha
Laksamana Suhendra
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yeah sure, making a spaceship is awesome but turning the entire solar system into a spaceship is more awesome
Kate VDM
2 päeva tagasi
think you mean 2019
LightningSoundBoosterPlayz
3 päeva tagasi
Meanwhile Some Other Alien Races Out there go war with other races just to know that Humanity just made their entire solar system a space ship
jencorcorson
3 päeva tagasi
Hmm, so long 12019...welcome 12020?!?!
Stephen Jacobs
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I tripped and fell down the EEprojects rabbit hole and here I am lol
UNDERTAKER0625 plays Any thing
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1:03
Wojciech Sobolewski
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2:20 That guy was so happy when he turned on the flashlight.... Should have pointed it towards the Sun...
Jorge Andres Buelvas Luna
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4:35 F for that floating car
Milenier
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i love the fact that we got potential technology for planning millions of years ahead of time, yet we are being chased by technology of our last 2 centuries.
Greg Gear
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I need more weed
segsuc
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I like how exciting he was about 2020.
NightwishTarja
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hi everyone, from year of our Lord 12021:D our lord THE SCIENCE
Batamgalan Erdn
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*I* *USE* *THE* *SUN* *TO* *MOVE* *THE* *SUN*
Juan Miguel Salinas
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hey if we can make this kind of stuff we can pass the dwarf thats a good thing
Seth Carrothers
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These videos give me hope for our future.
Doge scientist
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i like the quality at the start
Tony Rasa
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A star moving in the 'wrong direction' or even changing course would be a dead giveaway in The Dark Forest though, right?
Zhen Jiang
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S1imple
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the word *drunk toddlers* ...
katlego masoeu
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The Government rn: *BREATH IN* mine
The Lord of Ducks
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7:20 Until now, I realize that these three structures are actually the Kurzgesagt Birds, but as futuristic buildings
Alvaro Rodriguez Perez
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8:21 HAH
Dayrius Tong
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Mercury: SUFFERING
Jofus002
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"Hopefully we will get to try again next year... in 2020..." We all know how that went
Ian Buchanan
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I won’t a Stella engine/Caplin thruster
Kamil525
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"we're leaving year 2019 with hope" um.
Devonne Williams
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Say hello to my intercept Stellar engine
Blue Earl
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Those who will experience it are probably super lucky. If EEprojects is still alive after millions of years remember me!!! too bad we wont get to experience it :((
RC Idiots
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I love all the references in these videos
AlfRed Brendan
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Moving the whole Solar System means that humanity will have reached a type 2 civilization. But I'm afraid we'll be wiped away earlier, probably because of our own actions
Brick by Brick
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8:10 I think you'd rather have 2019 than 2020...
Xavier Barker
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Shaquanna
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More like a skating ring filled with drunk toddlers Edit: after I made this I noticed somebody else commented the same thing so the reply section doesn't need to be a warzone
Jack Dobbie
6 päeva tagasi
what's stopping the Caplan thruster from turning the solar system to a sinder?
dhan thapa
6 päeva tagasi
How could you build the mirror you would run out of materials?
Garrett Crummett
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We take the solar system and PUSH it SOMEWHERE ELSE!
Garrett Crummett
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PUSH!
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Wasif Ali
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why cant we combine the both stellar engines ?
Joshua Sams
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Because the shkadov thruster would get in the way of the dyson sphere/swarm
Mr. Clorox
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Sun is a deadly laser? Shoot it with deadly laser.
Colin Phang
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12020 is a trap!!! Go back!!!
Bryce Grounds
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Hey AllahI know what we’re gonna do today
Osian Shirley
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But if you only move the sun and not everything around it, won't everything on the side that it's moving towards fall into it?
Dorian Havilliard
7 päeva tagasi
Year “12019” ??
Joshua Sams
6 päeva tagasi
Kurzgesagt has a thing where they refer to the years as 12020 instead of 2020.
Thạnh Phạm
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Science stupid Science stupid Science doesn't know. Positrons × and electrons -- rotate very rapidly after 46 billion years of creating the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall. So the core of the Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall very quickly like A super large electric turbine that produces super large electrical energy Every second Hercules - Corona borealis Greatwall emits 2400 billion billion tons photons, move circle at light speed return to its original position after 93 billion years, so it pushed the entire universe to spin
MattsLegoChannel
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NASA: take notes!! NASA: fuck yes!
IronDoorTrap
7 päeva tagasi
Me, confused as to how big the Caplain thruster is:
ducks and garry
5 päeva tagasi
Me to mah man
Em trish
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I'm about to say something dumb but if the hydrogen jet keeps the balance of the thruster wouldn't the mean the jet is as powerful as the engine?
Jerry Spikes
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The fretful environment universally pump because hydrogen focally offend forenenst a idiotic volleyball. tangible, bustling jewel
Vikas Sardana
7 päeva tagasi
We could build a stellar engine
Mthoko M. Mpofana
7 päeva tagasi
Just chuckling at the fact that I, initially, thought this was just about a sun-powered spaceship... how you just going to move a whole solar system? 😅
The Smol Gay Cinnamon Roll
5 päeva tagasi
big boi engine
Mars Cat
7 päeva tagasi
"Nothing in the universe is static" But there's static all around, it's called electricity
Erick k
7 päeva tagasi
7:26 mew
lankpost
7 päeva tagasi
Hold up! Did he say drunk toddlers?
NowAlex
7 päeva tagasi
yeah, but would this have any effects on us? like wouldnt we notice the "sudden" change in direction or speed?
NowAlex
7 päeva tagasi
@Em trish nah i mean moving the solar system, like we dont feal earths movement cause we got used to it, but what if we suddenly start moving the earth in a new direction?
Em trish
7 päeva tagasi
I can imagine that by the time the helium reaches us it wont be dense enough to do harm and the magnetic field could block some of it off
Arch Trench
7 päeva tagasi
sun verry dense not work
Arch Trench
7 päeva tagasi
but how are we gonna build a giant mirror half our solar system
Kraui
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i dont know why but im dying because he said at the end 12019 instead 2019
d powermemes
8 päeva tagasi
We gaan andere sterren koloniseren
Atul Kumar
8 päeva tagasi
So you're assuming that the sun's surface is not gonna be penetrated by the forward thruster. I mean it's possible that all that energy beams inside to the other side, like a needle passing through a cloth. The engine would collapse then
Nothing
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The sun is extremely dense. I’m pretty sure these guys know what there talking about
KNIFEGUY1701
8 päeva tagasi
Oop, guess it's time for an existential crisy
imma poisonyou
8 päeva tagasi
Anyone’s curious about the two other stellar engines?
Higgins_123
8 päeva tagasi
We have a hard enough time doing anything about climate change while it's happening. I don't know if we're gonna be able to plan 100-1000,000 years in advance..
AlexZitao0
8 päeva tagasi
that message at the end aged poorly
Mark Joseph Mendez
8 päeva tagasi
but what if we encountered something more massive than our sun and our planet got attracted to it?
Endy
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At the end he said let’s fix up earth Me living in 2021 👁👄👁
Warhammered
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That mirror concept is confusing. How is it supposed to encourage the sun to move? The way it is shown here looks like the light particles and radiation will bounce off it and push the mirror and the sun away from each other.
PHAZER6 Gaming
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Lol turn on the captions on the intro music