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They pull on Mars core to make it liquid again.

Yeah...uh, okay, even if that would work...how would you get Europa and Mimas away from Jupiter?

Star Wars like technology? To pull away the moons would take some huge strain on the laws of gravity and would just disrupt the balance....

Star Wars like technology?

We could get an asteroid to orbit Europa and it would pull on it so slightly that eventually Europa would be ejected. We would not need Mimas, as that would get rid of the Cassini division which in my opinion looks awesome.

We are still left with the same fundamental problem here.

And what is that?

Getting to the point where we can actually pull such a large cosmic body to Earth. By then I think, it would have been much more efficient for us to colonize distant star systems.

The asteroid would take care of that. We set a proper trajectory and let loose the asteroid, and we can move it to martian orbit at the cost of Earth loosing the title of having he largest moon to itself.

Problem, finding an appropriate asteroid, (assuming it's from the Asteroid belt), and even ''letting loose'' (kind of vague here, elaborate please), which would require quite a force to oppose the asteroid's natural direction.

Or we could get an asteroid in its natural direction and accelerate it to Jupiter. We could also just take one of the asteroid already orbiting Jupiter and use it.

Which still takes a lot of energy and power seeing how the asteroid needs to have a pretty high mass. Also, the distance from here to Jupiter is not a trifle; it's still pretty far. Even if it did occur it would be a short term solution; colonization is still a more long term solution.

...So you plan on moving it this century? My plan would take a few. Also, there are over 60+ moons of Jupiter, most of them moonlets.

Well, as long as the economy doesn't understand that growth isn't strictly necessary and that stability is much better, we'll have to move from the planet somewhen, way before it looks like Coruscant..
Speaking of which, I immediately had to think of Coruscant when looking at some of these amazing shots from the ISS:
Watch and marvel
Makes you think a bit..

if you want to meet up with the borg... be my guest!

hahiha, is that a pics of a world whit 1 giant city? (link aint working)

if so then that will not happen in the near few 1000 year.
atm all 7 billion people living on this world would fit into los angeles (LA)

so to have 1 giant city all over the world we would need atleast 700 billion people. and by that time our consumerism would have killed this earth already.