Caplan Thruster Recipe

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Ingredients

• Dyson Sphere
• Large electromagnetic fields
• Particle accelerators
• Hydrogen and helium from the solar wind
• Radioactive oxygen
• Thermonuclear fusion reactors

Instructions

1. Build a Dyson Sphere to gather sunlight and refocus it to the surface of the Sun.
2. Use the Dyson Sphere to heat small regions of the Sun to extreme temperatures, lifting billions of tons of mass off the Sun.
3. Collect and separate the lifted mass into hydrogen and helium.
4. Burn the helium explosively in thermonuclear fusion reactors.
5. Expel a jet of radioactive oxygen at a temperature of nearly a billion degrees to become the primary source of propulsion from the stellar engine.
6. Use large electromagnetic fields to funnel hydrogen and helium from the solar wind into the engine.
7. Accelerate the collected hydrogen with particle accelerators and shoot a jet back at the Sun to balance the thruster and transfer the thrust of the engine back to the Sun.
8. Use the Caplan thruster to move the Sun by 50 light years in as little as a million years, or completely redirect the solar system's galactic orbit in 10 million years.
9. Colonize hundreds or thousands of stars as the solar system passes by them, or even escape the Milky Way entirely.
10. Enjoy the extended life of the Sun and the possibility of becoming an interstellar species for millions of years to come.

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