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jovas | 9 months 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.

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mousethatroared|9 months ago

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

stevenwoo|9 months ago

If we're spitballing, one could simply angle the impacts of asteroids to add momentum in the desired direction.