On Dec 10, 5:11*am, (David DeLaney) wrote:
Quadibloc wrote:
But the Earth's rotation is unaffected. The stars will move through
the night sky so as to return to their previous positions after 23
hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds at any time of the year. The Earth is
a big heavy ball of rock, and so making it speed up or slow down would
require prodigious amounts of energy, and somewhere to which to
transfer the angular momentum involved.

And, in the classic example, would make all of Joshua's soldiers fall down and
ROLL for a thousand miles...

Dave "VENUS MUST BE REORBITED TO BECOME A BORN-AGAIN EARTH" DeLaney

Ah, yes, I remember seeing some of the classic posts of the late
Alexander Abian. I was surprised that a year or so after his death,
some scientists actually did seriously propose moving the Moon as a
means to altering Earth's orbit - although, unlike him, they did not
feel that it was really necessary to abolish the seasons, leaving the
Earth in an eternal springtime, to get rid of the weather and
therefore hurricanes and the like.

John Savard