re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

“there’s some science fiction writers professor who thinks it’s fun to pretend we might could adjust our orbit, but that’s still yet to be arrived at scientifically, but it’s an interesting concept.”

FTFH

As a thought experiment, some actual science types have speculated about what it would take to adjust the Earth’s orbit by human effort, and how it would be done. I don’t remember the energy requirements they calculated, but it was in the tera-fuquetonnes, or possibly more.