The Discovery Enterprise: Evacuate Earth

--- In spacesettlers, Frank wrote:

> If you are speaking of the film, who should build them?

The several million people who survived the neutron star because they followed the plan you outline below, instead of what they do in the show.

> The billions left on Earth would be dead, when the
> materials of the Earth would be available and the rest
> of 250000 heading towards an other star.
>
> Wouldn't this materials be a ring around this neutron
> star?
> I guess this star is on a fast transit and would be away
> some years later taking the ring with it.

Now that I hadn't thought of. I sort of figured the tidal forces ripped the Earth (and Mars and Venus as well, which is why the show wasn't all about terraforming?) apart, but didn't actually hit our planet.

> A better project, when humanity had 75 years time before
> the impact would be, to build several habitats from
> materials already in space on asteroids instead of
> sending all the materials up from Earth and start with
> the evacuation of Earth years before the impact happens
> with the first habitat, whereby the people already
> evacuated could build further habitats for those yet
> staying on Earth.

Yes. Exactly the plan I wish the show had been about. Now, I have to say that I haven't seen it yet. If I've missed something (like, say, fifteen minutes devoted to why terraforming isn't the big solution), then sorry. I will get to it.