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by mrep 971 days ago
About 323 million times the energy humanity produces in a year to spin up Venus [0] so probably not anytime soon.

[0]: https://nathanielmrouth.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/what-would-...

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Thank you for a super interesting link!

It briefly mentioned the equatorial bulge that other, faster spinning, planets possess. Would it greatly damage the planet to spin it up?

I also didn't know that Venus' rotational energy is so low that we "could" actually spin it the correct way without spending much more energy.