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TheEdit: I got it a bit wrong. I originally said the length of the year changes by a day--offnow I realize that while the topnumber of my head I'm not sure if it gets a day longer or acalendar days changes by 1 the length of the year remains the same--the length of the day shorteralso changes. That won't Neither effect will matter from an ecological perspectiveecologically but the inhabitants very well might care about the broken calendar.

Also, interplanetary spaceflight is severely curtailed. Until we build a supercatapault on the moon there will be no manned missions beyond the moon and the only way to rendezvous with another planet will involve really brutal aerobraking--twice that of the Galileo probe's plunge into Jupiter. (Which burned away a quarter of the total weight of the probe.)

The length of the year changes--off the top of my head I'm not sure if it gets a day longer or a day shorter. That won't matter from an ecological perspective but the inhabitants might care about the broken calendar.

Also, interplanetary spaceflight is severely curtailed. Until we build a supercatapault on the moon there will be no manned missions beyond the moon and the only way to rendezvous with another planet will involve really brutal aerobraking--twice that of the Galileo probe's plunge into Jupiter. (Which burned away a quarter of the total weight of the probe.)

Edit: I got it a bit wrong. I originally said the length of the year changes by a day--now I realize that while the number of calendar days changes by 1 the length of the year remains the same--the length of the day also changes. Neither effect will matter ecologically but the inhabitants very well might care.

Also, interplanetary spaceflight is severely curtailed. Until we build a supercatapault on the moon there will be no manned missions beyond the moon and the only way to rendezvous with another planet will involve really brutal aerobraking--twice that of the Galileo probe's plunge into Jupiter. (Which burned away a quarter of the total weight of the probe.)

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Loren Pechtel
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The length of the year changes--off the top of my head I'm not sure if it gets a day longer or a day shorter. That won't matter from an ecological perspective but the inhabitants might care about the broken calendar.

Also, interplanetary spaceflight is severely curtailed. Until we build a supercatapault on the moon there will be no manned missions beyond the moon and the only way to rendezvous with another planet will involve really brutal aerobraking--twice that of the Galileo probe's plunge into Jupiter. (Which burned away a quarter of the total weight of the probe.)