alt Hacker NewsHear me out. We can just mount jet engines along the equator and rotate them 180 to gain or lose time. And then connect them to my snooze button.
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Wouldn't it just be easier to have Superman fly around the planet a bunch of times really fast to do the same thing? Then you wouldn't have to worry about having to deal with all of that engine maintenance.
The problem is future societies harvesting the engines for interstellar probes. This problem has been discussed in a series of books by Larry Niven.
No, jet engines push against the atmosphere and the atmosphere is a part of the earth
It would appear that this has worked as they haven't had to insert leap seconds for quite a while.
I feel like we can all just jump at the same time. I mean, we only need a second or two, right?
You could actually move very large quantities of water around and probably have a measurable impact. Like draining the California central valley aquifer.