Ted Jones
Ted Jones
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

I couldn’t help thinking that shifting the Earth out a bit would also be a (bad) solution to our current climate problem.

Pretty shocked that you didn’t mention the other ways to increase the speed of the planet. (And, to be honest, you didn’t explain how all that solar energy was going to be used to alter the speed of the planet.) I would imagine that an asteroid hitting the Earth in the right place would transfer a sizable amount of energy to Earth. A series of bumps like this could possibly speed us into a higher orbit without, you know, causing a massive version of nuclear winter. Even some perfectly orchestrated asteroid sling-shotting (the short of thing Nasa does to speedup spacecraft) could conceivably also add some speed (momentum?) to the Earth.

As absurd as this idea is, it still makes more sense to me than settling other planets.

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