That’s easy. On the exact opposite place in orbit around the Sun from where the Earth is now.
But how are you moving it there?
I ask because the Genesis device, certainly, was not intended to move planetary masses from one orbit to another–just to reshape a planet already in a given orbit, or (as in the movie) to create an wholly new solar system. The latter is a bad idea given that we’re talking about our solar system.
And I still want read your plan for transporting people and resources.
The Moon.
Sorry, my Ringworld is going to need that space.
Assuming industrial replicators from ST are out of the question…cold fusion reactor? Tesla coils that work?
What do you mean by “Tesla coils that work”? We have those already. Do you mean coils that work for some other purpose than what they’re used for now? What purpose?
In a similar vein, a supply of AUM from the Illuminatus! trilogy would be something I’d like to spread around a bit. (It magically turns neophobic people into neophiles.)
I’m not sure how that’s supposed to help the economy.
Heinlein’s Shipstone Technology.
Well, possibly antonio meant the Tesla coils that appeared in The Prestige (with Tesla himself played by David Bowie):
Tesla’s invention can instantly and perfectly duplicate objects, animals and persons
Useful, to be sure. And since the movie is set in the late 19th century, it clearly doesn’t need huge amounts of electricity to operate. In fact, you could probably get by with a 5 kiloWatt generator.
Me too, but I’ll just tag along on Steve MB’s coattails.
From Sleeper-
an orgasmatron.
I’ll think of a way for it to benefit the economy later.
Of course, a Replicator is the **WORST POSSIBLE CHOICE **when the idea is to HELP the economy.
Presto, you just destroyed every manufacturing job on the face of the Earth, and then some.
If you set them to replicating Orgasmatrons, nobody’s going to care about the economy.
People don’t actually care about not having a job. They care about not having a paycheck. If we had replicators (and the means to power them), we could have abundance for all without need for anyone to actually work.
That will surely make manufacturers unnecessary except for the replicator maker… or can a replicator replicate another replicator? In that case all we need is just one replicator to start this. Then what is the power source of a replicator? Nuke? I guess there still will be riches unless replicator can replicate nuke. Can a microwave sized replicator replicate a Yacht or an airliner?
Wouldn’t a replicator beg the question of needing an eliminator? Else we might bury the surface of the earth in any number of things…
A replicator wouldn’t help the economy so much as transcend the economy. It would render pretty much the entire manufacturing sector obsolete, but we’d have so much material wealth that people on welfare really could have Cadillacs and it wouldn’t be extravagant by the new standard of living.
If replicators are off the table, then I pick orbital power transmitters from Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. They’re pretty much just massive solar panels up in orbit that can transmit the gathered electricity down to the planet’s surface.
The massive increase in supply would reduce electricity to a small fraction of its current price. It would be an enormous boon to manufacturers.
I do not trust any definable subset of humanity with orbital power transmitters. Get Asimovian robots to entirely control the systems, and I might consider it. Might.
“And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall…and the flames of the tripods expired, and Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”