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
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…
It upsets me that the only widely available versions of Amadeus now is the "extended edition," which fundamentally alters the film’s core message.
In the original theatrical cut, Salieri is a deeply flawed but fascinating character—a man consumed by jealousy, yet also in awe of Mozart’s genius. His sabotage of Mozart is tragic, not just because of what it does to Mozart, but because Salieri himself recognizes the beauty he is trying to destroy. There’s a complexity there: Salieri hates Mozart, but he also admires him. He wishes, more than anything, that he could be his friend, but he cannot overcome his own bitterness.
The extended edition, however, adds a crucial change: Salieri doesn’t just work against Mozart—he actively humiliates Mozart’s wife, Constanze. This transforms Salieri from a tormented, conflicted figure into something much simpler: a villain. Instead of a man waging a war against God through Mozart, he’s just a petty, lecherous schemer.
The real Antonio Salieri was not some scheming villain—he was a respected composer, teacher, and conductor who mentored some of the greatest musicians of the next generation, including Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt.
I'm not sure if this is the case for the screenplay, but for the actual play the playwright (who also wrote the screenplay) rewrote the ending at least 6 times over 20 years and multiple productions. The version of the play I read is similar to what you describe as the original theatrical cut.
The mythical rivalry should be with Beethoven, not Mozart!
True tidbits:
* Beethoven actually referred to Salieri as his "most active opponent" (Solomon's translation)
* Salieri criticized Beethoven's opera Fidelio (as did a lot of other composers of the time)
* Salieri didn't like Beethoven's late works. And apparently he critiqued them so hard that he even caused Schubert, another of his students, to not like Beethoven's music for a short time.
Armed just with that I could probably work slowly but surely over time to turn all of HN full Q-anon on a Salieri vs. Beethoven conspiracy. But I'll be good and vaccinate everyone here-- Beethoven also had a difficult relationship with his other famous teacher Joseph Haydn. He was quite a moody guy! And Salieri was a good sport-- he even sat in to play drums on Wellington's Victory. So in reality it's just good clean musical friends having some fun.
Edit: I don't find evidence in the wiki of hostile reception, excepting this:
"The concert provoked the ire of fellow composer Antonio Salieri, who had been Beethoven's teacher. Also on 22 December, Salieri organized his annual concert to benefit widows and orphans, and he threatened to ban any Tonkünstler-Societät musicians who had played in Beethoven's concert instead of his own. However, soon after the relationship between the two composers improved."
I'm not sure if the maths are related, but there is a different (though similar) idea in gravitational slingshots. It's not the same because it simply uses "normal" linear momentum. But I also only read the abstract, lol.
(La)TeX is an example of a very enlightened _idea_ that offed itself \footnotemark{} with a spectacularly cursed user interface. It is simply gross to write, and it's difficult for frontends, converters and GUIs to make it much better.
Yes yes, I can already hear the cultists chant "YoU dOn'T wRiTe In LaTeX" but this mentality is precisely the problem. If I can't write directly in your typesetting system nowadays, then I'm sorry, your system probably sucks.
You could unfortunately write an article or thesis quite comfortably in Word or even InDesign, while formatting as you go. (I say "unfortunately" because from a business-model and hacker's perspective, these tools suck.)
\footnotetext{not implying that LaTeX is dead, but referring to how it sentenced itself to the academic niche, in which case it might as well be dead…}
From what I’ve seen from Latex GUI applications, there’s no way we can avoid complexity. Most users will do OK with a basic word processor. We do not need a silver bullet for every use case. You select the best one and move on.
