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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ignoring actual practicality.... I guess you could run a heat exchanger and dump all the energy into a tiny object then shoot it into space

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not the timezones!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If you do it in a direction to increase Earth's orbiting speed it would move us farther away from the sun too.