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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 13 August 2015 08:53:59PM 1 point [-]

perhaps the right thing is to move Venus and Mars to more convenient orbits

Also, we can (in theory) harvest a lot of gravitational potential energy by pulling Mars closer to the Sun.