In message <[email protected]>, Steve Rooke writes:
>Has anyone thought of making some huge rockets and attaching them to >the Earth at the Equator in such a way that when they are fired, we >could speed-up the World so its rotation is exactly 24 x 60 x 60 x >9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation, which corresponds to the >transition between two hyperfine energy levels of the ground state of >the 133Cs atom per day. Yes, I did a back of the envelope calculation, besides the practical issues, you really cannot afford to do that. A better strategy, seen from an economy of energy and resource point of view, would be to change the orbit of the moon by nudging some asteroids into it You would have to get it to leave the earths orbit and slingshot around venus (or mars), then come back and go into orbit the opposite way. Some side-effects must be expected. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
