#i get data on this freaking ship for ten minutes and i doomscroll and blabber on about atmospheres and orbital physics

[graceoutinspace]

Why don't we just use the astrophage rockets to move the Earth closer to the sun?

forgive me. i have been awake. stratts wish is my command command is my command. it's not her fault though. it's the goddamn time zones. why can't it be greenwitch everywhere

anyways, we can't do that because. that is not viable. we are so so so low on astrophage how would we get that much to move the earth?? that would very likely break the earth in multiple places, even if we get the earth to stop spinning so as to move it. also, you'd need breaks to stop its movement and constant adjustment for multiple years to get the apogee/perigee right. it's simply not an option, because we can't do that.

there are, in all reality, very few viable ways to deal with astrophage. trust me. i've been in all the "what the heck do we do!!" meetings. stopping the CO2 in venus' atmosphere isn't viable, either. then they'd just go to the next-most-CO2-dense planet. also: how do you remove 97-something % of a planet's atmosphere???