Could You Attach Rockets To The Earth To Change The Direction Of The Planet?

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zinfamous

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Every morning when I get up I do 100 jumping jacks in the exact same spot. I think eventually the cumulative force of me jumping on that one spot could change the orbit of the earth.
do you weigh 900 stone or something?
 

zinfamous

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You'd have to bring the moon along with us or the tides would get all screwed up and mess up the ocean/coastal ecosystems where most people live.
so what if, instead, we just destroy the moon, thus causing all the oceans and large bodies of water to suddenly slosh to one side, the force and weight of all that water moving at once will then knock the earth out of orbit and send us off into some other trajectory, achieving the OP's goal in a roundabout way?
 
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so what if, instead, we just destroy the moon, thus causing all the oceans and large bodies of water to suddenly slosh to one side, the force and weight of all that water moving at once will then knock the earth out of orbit and send us off into some other trajectory, achieving the OP's goal in a roundabout way?
Wouldn’t work. Not enough force.
 

[DHT]Osiris

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so what if, instead, we just destroy the moon, thus causing all the oceans and large bodies of water to suddenly slosh to one side, the force and weight of all that water moving at once will then knock the earth out of orbit and send us off into some other trajectory, achieving the OP's goal in a roundabout way?
Even crashing the moon into the earth wouldn't change it's orbit unless it was head-on or tail-on, the mechanics just aren't with you. It would be 'easier' (though maybe less effective) to bombard the earth with objects from the asteroid belt head- or tail-on
Actually scratch that.
The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 2.39×1021 kg, which is 3% of the mass of the Moon.
 

Stopsignhank

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I'm going to say no. The earth isn't a rigid body. I'm going to say, given the forces needed, it's going to behave more like a fluid than a solid when you apply that amount of thrust to it.
It's not a sphere like a glass marble that you could glue jets to, attach jets big enough to move the earth and they are just going to zoom off with maybe a little chunk of rock attached.


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You mean like a non-newtonian fluid? That shit just boggle my mind.

 

cytg111

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If one cabled two ships together and sent them off in opposite directions, could we cut the earth in half with a giant cable saw?
Well if it was tiny tiny tiny ships and instead of going opposite directions we make em go opposite opposite directions and we make em go *reeeeaaaaal* fast.... Then *MAYBE*.

 
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