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cordite
2177 days ago
How big and how fast must a flywheel be to perturb Earth's rotation, in a similar method of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_moment_gyroscope
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ricardobeat
2177 days ago
The rotational energy of the planet is absolutely massive. I don't remember the numbers but you'd need
millions
of atomic bombs fired at once just to make a dent - and it would still not affect the orbit of this now radioactive fireball at all.
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