Is it theoretically possible to send something as large as Europe into space? ?

Question

Any idea what we'd need to use/do? Could do? Is it even possible to send something that large into space?

It wouldn't be a spaceship. It'd be an object.

Answer 1

There is one theory that a collision with a large object is what made our moon, and that is certainly larger than Europe, I think. So, just take a trip out to the asteroid belt (or even further to the Oort Cloud where the comets live) and give one of the bigger ones a nudge to put it on a collision course with the Earth, and sit back and watch the fireworks as a 2nd moon is made from the debris cast off into space... Or, you could get a really BIG container, pack up Europe inside, and then build a really BIG rocket with a LOT of fuel and in theory, YES, it is possible, but with the technology of today, can not, could not, be done.

Answer 2

you would need a lot of energy

Answer 3

No definitive answer, but interesting to ponder.

First of all, in theory, it is possible.....in reality, no it would not be.

We would first of all have to figure out what the actual mass of such an object would be. I would take a VERY rough guess and say something along the lines of say, 1 percent of Earth's total mass, about 5*10^22kg

Now to get something to lift against earth's gravity, you would need an acceleration of 9.8 m/s/s (AT LEAST)

So if F=ma, then the force needed to get off the ground, is roughly 5*10*23N

Now, I'm no rocket scientist (hur hur), but to produce that much force would require all the fossil fuels in the earth many times over. There's also controlled nuclear detonations, but that would still not be enough, I'm guessing, and the damage caused would render the Earth inhabitable pretty much forever.

Answer 4

It already is.  It's just attached to something else.

Answer 5

You'd probably have to take a bunch of little trips and build it up there.  

I wonder, what would an object that big do to the atmosphere as it ripped through it?  Not to mention the gravitational pull...  Major tsunamis!  Would volcanoes erupt?