Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just want to take the entire planet on a joy ride around the Universe. Well, fasten your seatbelts. Let’s pilot Spaceship Earth out of our Solar System. What would it take to free our planet from the Sun’s gravity? What out-of-the-box ideas would actually be the most efficient? And why would you need to nearly destroy everything on Earth to make this work?