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by skykooler 500 days ago
This would move the Earth by less than the width of an atom: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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So, we all have to just skip for a while ?

There's a Sci-Fi Plot in there somewhere:

A hero tries to and succeeds in persuading govts to organize a planet scale skipping effort to get earth closer to a passing by rock and escape an impending disaster on earth.

GP didn’t specify Earth.
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