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Sci-fi blockbuster imagines whole Earth migration

Concept of moving whole planets was imagined in 1937 novel Star Maker

09-Feb-2019

Key points from article :

The Wandering Earth is a Chinese blockbuster, released on 5th February.

The unstable sun will expand to consume Earth within a hundred years.

10,000 gigantic jets, and blast the planet out of its orbit.

Plan is for a hundred-generation journey to a new home 4.2 light-years away.

Malfunction leaves the planet caught in Jupiter’s gravity.

Plus family grudges and computers with secret agendas.

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Sci-fi blockbuster imagines whole Earth migration