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Solving global warming by moving Earth closer to Mars

One way to reduce global warming is to get our planet farther away from the Sun. If we placed a couple of thousands of SpaceX's Merlin rockets upside down in the tropics or Sahara i.e. somewhere where ...
Henry Skoglund's user avatar
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Placement of the spaceports on our Earth

Why are spaceports located at certain points (site/place) on our Earth? Is there a physical reason I don't really know about?
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How long do you have to wait outside of the orbit of the Earth for desired location to be right below?

My father had a (very theoretical) idea of a transportation system, where shuttle would be shot directly up from the Earth, it would stay still in the space for so long that the destination would be ...
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Saturn V horizontally attached to Earth

If the Saturn V rocket were attached to the ground facing in the opposite direction of the Earth's spin, would it in anyway slow the Earth's spin on its axis? How significant of an impact would it ...
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Can human push Earth away from the Sun?

It's said the earth is approaching the sun. Can we push it away little by little? Although we can emit rocket towards the sun, but it's too expensive to make a rocket: So I think maybe we can ...
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