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Originally posted by Rob Ribaudo
As for the calendar problem, maybe we could just slow down the Earth's rotation around the sun to fit our needs.  Anyone know how we could do this though? I am sure there are some Robotics people who have a crazy idea on how to say it can be done.
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Simple - the earth's rotation is based in part on the distance from the moon... something about the pull of gravity that both excert on each other. All you have to do is increase the distance between the earth and the moon, and the earth's rotation slows down. I forget the exact laws of physics responsible for this, but it's kinda like Venus, who's rotation is locked to it's moon, so it's always facing it's moon (Venus's
rotation period is something like 240 days, the same as its revolution period. Thats one hella long day ;-)
Anyways, that concludes dan's usless knowledge section for today.