That force would probably be overcomeable, but however improbable it seems , the likelyhood of success would seem more credible to make a body habitable if it was in the Goldilocks zone. Colonizing a planet where temperature are -270f on a cold day are about uber slim to "omfg you actually believed we could?". Impossible at this point, but in the future - maybe.

i have absolutely no math to back it up. but my guess is that the force required to pull a solid moon from jupiters orbit would be enough to destroy the moon. It would rip like wet paper if u attempted to move it.

yea i thought as much just thought other people alot smarter than me might have an idea about it lol

unless there was a way to control gravity

Not to mention it would take 2 years traveling through Space just to get to Jupiter!

This post was edited by Bassist on Jun 24 2015 08:37pm

If we are able to achieve that im sure we would of furthered our engine tech aswell

Well gravity is created by the entire planet, so there's no way to avoid it, unless
you created a field around an object that made it gravity independent.

Oh idk, maybe a magnetic field that could oppose the forces of gravity,
something like that.

technology/progress is always inspired through imagination, then we strive to make it real just like everything else so far.It is discussions and ideas like this that keep allowing us to move forward and evolve and tbh i kind of had the same idea creating maybe a subspace field around it to take it out of our normal space time, would make it easier to move that way no doubt.

edit: power req be enormous tho

This post was edited by kalelvszod on Jun 26 2015 10:13am

There must be a way to generate mass amount of energy - without doing it the conventional way of rubbing two sticks together to make fire and a big bang, that we have been doing it for 100k+ years. Probably when we discover that, would we be able to generate the mass amounts of energy needed to create some type of electromagnetic field around objects were they could not be effected by force or gravity. Nuclear energy is massive but it's far too dangerous and has some nasty side effects.
Perhaps this "God particle" that was discovered with the Large Hadron Collider could hold the answers, who knows though.

Maybe convert the matter into energy but then we would need to be able to create mass quantities of them

This post was edited by kalelvszod on Jun 26 2015 07:14pm