I've been thinking of something like this factory, on a boat equipped with fishing nets processing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Wonder how much oil is in there?
Sounds like this might be a chance for a reevaluation of Newtonian Gravity and General Relativity.
Since that's a lot of work, perhaps we should chalk it up to a Halo of Dark matter just outside this planet's orbit which is holding it back from falling into that star.
(Or perhaps a whole bunch of Dark Energy between the planet and star holding it up)
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?