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| (...) Easier than watching Futurama. (You've got it backwards: add velocity to Earth to make its orbit further out, then you're done.) Actually NASA now has this contingency plan for moving Earth. It does involve borrowing energy from the outer (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| Good catch! I wasn't thinking in terms of "escape velocity", I was thinking more "if Earth stops spinning, we all fly off into space". Somewhere in that I made the association Earth=star and people=planets, but the translation doesn't really work, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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