Due to it's slow rotation it actually completes a full rotation of the sun before it itself fully rotates.

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[–] 17 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Wow that is incredible. Isn’t Venus year equal to 200 or so Earth Days?

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Pretty sure it also spins the "wrong way" compared to all the other planets, probably a massive impact at some point stopped it spinning and sent it backwards slowly

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's a good observation. I think you're right. It really is insane how much evidence of impacts and other forms of geological trauma is extant on other worlds

    Makes you imagine if the galaxies didn't spin so slow (relative to human timescales), we'd be watching rippling shrapnel as shit collides with one another in real time

    Space is so cool, fuck

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Are there any ramifications of that?

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    According to Superman (1978), time would move backwards.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I think (although I could be wrong), that that film was trying to depict that Superman was flying so fast that he went back in time. And the best visual they could come up with was that the earth was spinning "backwards" in order to depict this.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Could this also have contributed to the massive greenhouse effect it has?

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