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Venus has a retrograde day that is longer than it's year. While the atmosphere is a big problem, even without this issue the rotation would be problematic.
by jovas 1y ago
Venus has a retrograde day that is longer than it's year.
While the atmosphere is a big problem, even without this issue the rotation would be problematic.
- mousethatroared 1y agoIf the commenters are discussing diverting enough meteors to terraform Venus, there's enough fantasy to consider using nukes to apply the necessary torque to speed the orbit up
- stevenwoo 1y agoIf we're spitballing, one could simply angle the impacts of asteroids to add momentum in the desired direction.
- hinkley 1y agoWith that much atmosphere that’s a lot of tidal forces too, if you just get some I to orbit. But the question. Is do you spin it backward or slow it down to spin it the right way, creating a situation where one side of the planet always faces the sun for a while. Might be an opportunity to freeze and cart off the other side of the atmosphere…
- AStonesThrow 1y agoWhy don't we simply vaporize Venus entirely and construct our own bespoke planet in its place, if it's so damn problematic https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Technobabble https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Technobabble