manufacture orbit

making shapes in space

If some aliens had the tech to move planets and stars, it would be possible to manufacture shapes that animate. Do you think it would be possible to work out how to hypothetically make the shape of dna out of planets and stars and make it twirl? I'm pretty sure this would work on paper at least, maybe?

In theory, they might be able to create this shape, but I'm skeptical that they can make it twirl.  The structure sounds very unstable.

Just what would be the point of that? Making giant life? I don't think what you're describing would work because planet and star-sized object don't behave anything like atoms and subatomic particles. Maybe if these aliens forced them to act like molecules with this same planet moving technology but again, why would they want to do that? Seems like a giant waste of energy and resources.

>>3
You're fucking dumb, its not about that. Its a sculpture. Get the fuck out. You have no imagination and you're dead inside.

So they would have to solve an n-body problem to see if there was a solution that permitted such a pattern, then find the exact starting conditions to create it if there were one (unlikely).

Then considering how a tiny perturbation will give rise to chaos in this problem, the system most certainly won't be stable.

So no, unrealistic idea.

I want to say kinda, but it's ultimately a no. You CAN make two objects appear to twirl in space, but that's only because the differences in eccentricity, right ascension, and inclination is so slight in reference to you. It's really  hard to illustrate this without STK, but it's possible. However, I've only simulated this with satellites, and proximity ops is already tough enough. On the celestial scale, by the time you can actually see planets twirl around each other, you'll be dead 100 times over.

>>4
Easy there dickface. No reason to get hostile.