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var_cw | 3 years ago

wow this is such an incredible idea

reminds me of the earth-moon fire pole

https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/

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cletus|3 years ago

So this clearly wouldn't work but it is a fun thought experiment. Thing is, there are places that it would work. Pluto and Charon notably are tidally locked to each other and have muich lower gravity and much lower distance (~12K miles).