Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by mousethatroared on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:11PM
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If 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
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If we're spitballing, one could simply angle the impacts of asteroids to add momentum in the desired direction.
With 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…
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by AStonesThrow on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:29PM
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Why don't we simply vaporize Venus entirely and construct our own bespoke planet in its place, if it's so damn problematic