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A lot of energy. Probably more than the world uses in an entire year, but I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader. (Kind of reminds me of the anal
by betterunix2 6y ago
A lot of energy. Probably more than the world uses in an entire year, but I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader.
(Kind of reminds me of the analysis of how much energy the death star would require to destroy an entire planet, and what kind of energy density would be required to do it from a facility that is the size of a "small moon.")
- dmd 6y agoI mean, it really depends on what's meant by "another orbit". Even the most minuscule change is "another orbit".
- carlob 6y ago> Probably more than the world uses in an entire year, but I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader. My back of the napkin estimate says about 7 orders of magnitude more, just to eliminate leap years.