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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:32:36 PM EDT
This is nuts, I hope they don't try it. It would be like stomping on the brakes, anything not nailed down would go flying.
I give them credit for thinking outside the box though. "In 1960, American military analysts hatched a plan to stop Earth rotation and protect the US from a Russian nuclear attack. The idea of Project Retro was simple: 1,000 huge rockets, normally used to launch nuclear weapons and spacecraft, would generate so much thrust that Earth’s rotation would briefly pause. This would mean that Soviet nuclear missiles would overshoot the missile bases they were aimed at." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13403663/The-insane-Cold-War-plan-protect-America-Russian-nukes-stopping-Earths-rotation-using-1-000-rockets.html . |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:41:14 PM EDT
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Uh, no.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:43:46 PM EDT
[#2]
I've heard of this project, pioneered by the same team that worked on the GD airplane treadmill
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:46:09 PM EDT
[#3]
Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:46:35 PM EDT
[#4]
Chief Engineer of the project was Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Sponsored by ACME.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:48:03 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets 
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:48:04 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Krombompulos_Michael]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rheinmetall792: Chief Engineer of the project was Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Sponsored by ACME. Bravo Sir! Best post on here this year. LMAO!!! Rockets on the planet to pause it? That is Guam capsizing level of thinking. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:48:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: apexcrusade]
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If all the chinese people jumped off a chair at the same time, you would hear it everywhere.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:50:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Michaelson]
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Had some reefer in the planning room.
"What if we like, stopped the earth?" (O_O) |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:51:25 PM EDT
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What could possibly go wrong
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:51:46 PM EDT
[Last Edit: PacNW5]
[#10]
And we shall call it The Alan Parsons Project
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:53:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:53:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Thuban]
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Originally Posted By wheel: This is nuts, I hope they don't try it. It would be like stomping on the brakes, anything not nailed down would go flying. I give them credit for thinking outside the box though. "In 1960, American military analysts hatched a plan to stop Earth rotation and protect the US from a Russian nuclear attack. The idea of Project Retro was simple: 1,000 huge rockets, normally used to launch nuclear weapons and spacecraft, would generate so much thrust that Earth’s rotation would briefly pause. This would mean that Soviet nuclear missiles would overshoot the missile bases they were aimed at." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13403663/The-insane-Cold-War-plan-protect-America-Russian-nukes-stopping-Earths-rotation-using-1-000-rockets.html . That has got to be the dumbest thing I have heard all year... and I've listened to speeches by Biden. First off, 1,000 Saturn 5 rockets, or 1,000,000 Saturn 5 rockets for that matter, would do nothing to slow down Earth's rotation. First, the Earth has a mass of something like 6x10^21 metric tons. That's like six billion trillion tons. Second, conservation of momentum means it wouldn't happen. None of the exhaust gasses from the rocket would leave the Earth and so the energy released would result in a lot of heat, wind and, ultimately a zero change in our rotation. Third, if we somehow could, all that kinetic energy of six billion trillion tons of mass rotating at some 1,000mph at the equator would turn into heat and would probably liquify Earth's crust. And that doesn't count the problems with transferring all of that momentum to the entire Earth. If you somehow had the rockets to do that all in North America then it would just stop the North American Continent while the Asian continent kept coming at us at a really high rate of speed. Not a good thing. And that's just off the top of my head. As I sit here thinking of the absolutely insane levels of dumbness in that idea I have to wonder if it was an April Fools joke. Was someone in the military trying to come up with the dumbest ideas possible for a laugh? It has to be. ETA Originally Posted By Michaelson: Had some reefer in the planning room. "What if we like, stopped the earth?" (O_O) Drugs, that has to be it and it makes me feel better. I would much rather think of our military planners being blasted out of their minds on drugs than that they are actually this stupid. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:54:03 PM EDT
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That would result in fire and brimstone.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 1:59:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: And we shall call it The Alan Parsons Project Shouldn't that be The Jack Parsons Project? |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 2:01:17 PM EDT
[#15]
China recently made a scifi movie with that concept
 The Wandering Earth | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 2:07:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By grendelbane: Shouldn't that be The Jack Parsons Project? I love #nerdhumor 
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Posted: 5/12/2024 2:16:33 PM EDT
[#17]
Psssht
Superman did it the 70s I saw it at the movie theater by flying opposite the earths rotation, so must be possible. |
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NV, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 2:24:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Krombompulos_Michael: Bravo Sir! Best post on here this year. LMAO!!! Rockets on the planet to pause it? That is Guam capsizing level of thinking. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Krombompulos_Michael: Originally Posted By Rheinmetall792: Chief Engineer of the project was Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Sponsored by ACME. Bravo Sir! Best post on here this year. LMAO!!! Rockets on the planet to pause it? That is Guam capsizing level of thinking. Well done Mister 👍🏻 |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 2:24:36 PM EDT
[#19]
Lol
That’s some flat earth level foolishness. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 7:58:54 PM EDT
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NY, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:13:50 PM EDT
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I seem to recall telling him it would be a bad idea.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:16:40 PM EDT
[#22]
Somebody is reading too many comic books.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:23:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rheinmetall792: Chief Engineer of the project was Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Sponsored by ACME.  |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:24:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 73RR: Psssht Superman did it the 70s I saw it at the movie theater by flying opposite the earths rotation, so must be possible. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:29:27 PM EDT
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Since the earth is flat, all the energy from those rockets would just send us flipping end-over-end like a coin toss. Everything would fall off with the first flip. We would be floating around with all the dinosaurs that live on the other side.
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:34:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Michaelson: Had some reefer in the planning room. "What if we like, stopped the earth?" (O_O) 1960’s? They were all getting dosed with LSD by the CIA |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 8:49:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:01:09 PM EDT
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You could make them miss by less than a mile and our silos would survive. You'd only have to slow the Earth's rotation by 1% to do this, not stop the Earth.
Of course to achieve that you need more than 1000 rockets. A rocky asteroid 500mi across should do the trick. Gotta make it hit at the right angle and the right moment. The Russian missiles miss. Of course the asteroid ends all life on Earth including all or almost all microscopic organisms. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:15:27 PM EDT
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dumbest thing i've read today
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:20:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets Yep, I don't even have to do the math. 
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:22:40 PM EDT
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Retarded because the earth's rotational speed is changing all the time. Since UTC is progressing at a fixed rate from an atomic clock, and GMT is based on the mean solar time in greenwich, they have to periodically add leap seconds to UTC to keep it within 1 second of GMT and functionally the same.
Maybe they were counting on changing the speed by tiny fraction of a second while nukes are in flight, and hoping it would accomplish something, but they'd need more than 1000 rocket engines. And since they'd be anchored to the crust, the force generated would probably go to the nearest fault line and not do shit to the planet's rotation, since the momentum would be maintained by the heavy mantle. Maybe troll / disinfo story from the government. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:24:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HappyCamel: I've heard of this project, pioneered by the same team that worked on the GD airplane treadmill  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:31:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:39:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:41:52 PM EDT
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A thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:43:49 PM EDT
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 What a bunch of retards. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:44:00 PM EDT
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The cornholius effect
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:45:50 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rheinmetall792: Chief Engineer of the project was Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Sponsored by ACME.  Attached File |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:47:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DrKlahn]
[#39]
1k rockets ??? 🚀
I don’t think you could build enough rockets and find a secure mount point to stop the earth rotation. These guys must’ve been part of the LSD trials team |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:49:09 PM EDT
[#40]
How did they plan on restarting it?
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:49:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Seabee_Mech: What if they were nuclear powered rockets? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Seabee_Mech: Originally Posted By ak4784: Pretty sure it would take more than 1000 rockets Every idea they had using this Special power plant has always been so great for everyone else. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:54:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jackthom8: China recently made a scifi movie with that concept  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDII5IkI3YAhhhhh Fruck you Jupitel!!!! No more whale or dolphin to fuck, I fuck you up now! Eat bullet you pranet eating bitch! |
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:56:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 73RR: Psssht Superman did it the 70s I saw it at the movie theater by flying opposite the earths rotation, so must be possible. Achhhualllly….! He didn’t pause the rotation, he reversed it and went back in time to save Lois after the earthquakes. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 9:57:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheAvatar9265ft: You could make them miss by less than a mile and our silos would survive. You'd only have to slow the Earth's rotation by 1% to do this, not stop the Earth. Of course to achieve that you need more than 1000 rockets. A rocky asteroid 500mi across should do the trick. Gotta make it hit at the right angle and the right moment. The Russian missiles miss. Of course the asteroid ends all life on Earth including all or almost all microscopic organisms. Just like skipping a rock across the lake. |
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Posted: 5/12/2024 10:02:48 PM EDT
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Angular momentum is a bitch.
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USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 10:05:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DrKlahn]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By perfectsilence: The cornholius effect Are you threatening my bunghole ? I want my TP! |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/12/2024 10:08:22 PM EDT
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Where exactly were they lighting off these "rockets"? I don't want to be in the blast zone. Cooked wieners anyone?
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Posted: 5/12/2024 10:10:10 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Curmudgeon762]
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The first thing I looked for on the article was to see if it was published on 1 April. Doesn’t appear to be but should have been
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Posted: 5/12/2024 10:14:26 PM EDT
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If we had the tech to do that we'd have colonized the solar system and could simply wipe Russia off the map
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