From: zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk   
      
   James Nicoll wrote:   
      
   >  wrote:   
      
   >> It seems to me that I'd rather have Venus than Mars in   
   >> co-orbit with Earth.  It's closer to the right size, which   
   >> means it can hang on to more atmosphere, which helps a   
   >> lot.   
   >   
   > But Venus is very H poor, because it's at the wrong end   
   > of billions of years of conditions that are very unlike Earth's.   
   > Mars, OTOH, is frozen but not nearly as H poor (Which doesn't   
   > make it H rich, of course).   
      
   So the correct way to move Venus is to form a large magnetic field and use   
   it to collect hydrogen and momentum from the solar wind, thus solving two   
   problems at once. Neat.   
      
   Perhaps better than my earlier idea (posted here some time ago) of using a   
   big rubber band stretched between Venus and Mars.   
      
      
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