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Changes you'd like to the solar system?

How would you change the solar system, if you could, assuming you remain bound by physical laws?

Would you like two planets in the habitable zone where Earth is, so that we might have intelligent life just light seconds away? Multiple moons for Earth, so it there would always be moonlight at night? A bigger moon, for stronger tidal effects? More gas giants, more rings? A smaller Earth, with lower gravity and a thinner atmosphere?

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It would be really cool to have a planet whose rings you could see with the naked eye, but having a planet that close would really mess with tides etc.
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I would like for it to revolve around me.

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I am a believer that any human-initiated changes, alterations, updates, modifications, additions, subtractions or tweaking of the solar system would put it out of whack in catastrophic and unrecoverable ways.
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with the heat waves, pine beetles, and wildfire.

cool this place off a little bit. i would schooch the entire solar system away from the sun about 10-15 feet.
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I'd vote for that - although a Dyson Sphere includes it's own sun - hypothetically.
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More alien chicks...

If there were a second earth like planet in the habitable zone around the Sun, there might be green alien chicks on it, but they might have tentacles and be poisonous, so YMMV.
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Would like a planet a couple hours away loaded with sports cars, hot boats, aircraft and smokin' alien chicks who love bald, middle-aged men. Or maybe just 28 hours for each day here. Either or both... .
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However it may be arranged I'd like to need to heat my house for fewer than 6 months per year. IOW a three month winter would be fine.
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However it may be arranged I'd like to need to heat my house for fewer than 6 months per year. IOW a three month winter would be fine.
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we sometimes have a 3 day winter here [ in a bad year]
but most are over by noon

move Venus out a bit and chill it

move mars in a bit and make it warm and wet
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Ship Earth jerks to Uranus.

Another moon orbiting Earth would be cool. Move the Solar System perpendicular enough to the galactic plane so we can sort of make out the Milky Way's spiral in the night sky.
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I'm thinking if earth standard gravity were lower, I'd be able to dunk.
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The solar system? I'd settle for more intelligent life on Earth.
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Low gravity. I'd love to able to jump over a house like Superman
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Closer to sun.

Would be awesome if we weren't 10C below seasonal average for most of the summer.

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