[skykooler]

This would move the Earth by less than the width of an atom: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

[devsda]

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.

[vardump]

GP didn’t specify Earth.

[mherrmann]

God I love HN.