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I'm not certain, but I strongly suspect that a geosynchronous orbit (in this case, quite a bit further than the appr. 22,000 miles/40,000 km we usually think of, because of the extra mass of the second body) would be inside the Roche Limit -- and that the two bodies would tear each other apart with their tides, then the fragments coalesce into a single super-...
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The problem here is that the soil and atmosphere that is used by Earth life today is not naturally occuring (geologically speaking). It is made by other Earth life. The most important parts of it is a combination of organic molecules that were synthesized by organisms long ago that took raw naturally occurring molecules like CO2, H20, and N2 from the air ...
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