You have to give Warren Ellis some credit. In a “Bad Signal” e-mail earlier today, he asked regarding a project he was thinking of coming back to:<\/p>\n
How would you spin up the moon to give it something close to one gravity? And would that have any tidal effect on the Earth?
\nSolettas, solar mirror arrangements, could warm the moon, but I don’t see yet how to spin it.<\/p>\n
That was followed up by this e-mail:<\/p>\n
Two hundred responses later, you all finally understand that I
\nhave no education in science and am actually fairly stupid.
\nThanks for helping. Stop with responses now.<\/p>\n
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