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Venus has a retrograde day that is longer than it's year.

While the atmosphere is a big problem, even without this issue the rotation would be problematic.

If the commenters are discussing diverting enough meteors to terraform Venus, there's enough fantasy to consider using nukes to apply the necessary torque to speed the orbit up

If we're spitballing, one could simply angle the impacts of asteroids to add momentum in the desired direction.

With that much atmosphere that’s a lot of tidal forces too, if you just get some I to orbit.

But the question. Is do you spin it backward or slow it down to spin it the right way, creating a situation where one side of the planet always faces the sun for a while. Might be an opportunity to freeze and cart off the other side of the atmosphere…

Why don't we simply vaporize Venus entirely and construct our own bespoke planet in its place, if it's so damn problematic

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