Could superintelligence park Mars in Earth's orbit instead of us flying there?
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-11-01
A long-form musing on superintelligence and physics: a real 2001 paper showed asteroid flybys could nudge a planet's orbit, but over timespans longer than recorded history. Arguing from Maxwell's equations and GPS, the author suggests a superintelligence might one day make gravity an engineering problem, parking Mars in Earth's stable Trojan points for year-round access instead of two-year launch windows. Explicitly framed as a thought experiment, not a prediction.
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